Master of Science in Enterprise Growth and Capital
Africa is full of small enterprises that never grow and promising companies that stall for want of capital and the capability to deploy it, and the missing profession is the growth operator who can take a viable business and scale it, and the capital professional who can finance that growth. This ...
The four facts
What you actually need to compare
- Award and entry
- MSc
- A
- Duration and mode
- 12 months (2 semesters)
- Hybrid. Includes 0 months of paid, assessed cooperative education.
- Cost
- UGX 3,000,000 per year
- None laboratory classification. No laboratory premium.
- Outcome targeted
- Enterprise growth lead, corporate development and strategy professional, private capital and investment analyst
- Reviewed by 2031. If the thesis stops holding, the programme is reviewed.
Pricing Model 5.1 · The Forward Standard
Master of Science in Enterprise Growth and Capital fee
UGX 3,000,000 per year
- Laboratory tier
- None
- Annual premium
- UGX 0
- Per semester
- UGX 1,500,000
- Whole programme
- UGX 3,000,000
- Approximate USD
- ≈ USD 789
What this fee includes
- Teaching, practice tutoring, assessment and competency verification
- The Amagezi platform and AI tutor around the clock
- All learning materials
- Every examination, including first resits
- Identity card, library, guild, sports and basic wellbeing
- Co-op placement matching and the Capability Passport
- Graduation and the statutory NCHE fee
- Online application
Employment thesis
What this programme is designed to produce
Forward publishes the destination of every programme before you enrol. If the thesis stops holding, the programme is reviewed and, where necessary, retired. Next review: 2031.
Roles
- Enterprise growth lead
- corporate development and strategy professional
- private capital and investment analyst
- growth and scale up operator
- mergers and acquisitions analyst
- development finance professional
- portfolio and value creation specialist
- founder and enterprise leader
Employer types
- Growth companies and their leadership
- private equity
- venture and investment firms
- development finance institutions
- banks and corporate finance advisers
- corporate development and strategy functions
- enterprise support and accelerator programmes
- family businesses professionalising for scale
- consulting firms
- the graduate's own venture, incubated through the Forward Venture Studio
Target outcomes we hold ourselves to
- This programme is built for managers, analysts and founders moving into enterprise growth and capital roles, and supports senior and international careers. Progression routes include doctoral study.
Compulsory · The Forward Core
How the Core works →Every Forward programme, including this one, carries the same five cross-cutting requirements. They are graded, not optional.
- AI Fluency
- Quantitative Reasoning
- Ethics and African Context
- Human-Advantage Skills
- Enterprise
Includes 12 months paid work-integrated learning
Postgraduate programmes carry work integrated learning inside the taught structure rather than the twelve month undergraduate cooperative education placement. Read the co-op commitment
Am I eligible?
Check yourself against the published requirements
7 questions written specifically for Master of Science in Enterprise Growth and Capital. Every answer is checked against a requirement Forward has published, and the result tells you which page that requirement comes from. Indicative only, the admissions office decides on your full file.
What is the highest qualification you hold?
Curriculum structure
The same degree, in both pathways
Every Forward programme is published in both pathways: Path One, the term plan of two six-month terms, and Path Two, the block sequence of twelve four-week blocks. Same competencies, same assessments, same award. Toggle to see this programme in each.
Path One term plan shown
Path One · The Term Model
| Code | Course | CU | Hours |
|---|---|---|---|
| FDC 501 | Applied Intelligence for Professionals Both | 4 | 2-2-0 |
| FDC 502 | Research Evidence and Method Both | 4 | 2-2-0 |
| MEGC 510 | Enterprise Growth Strategy and Diagnostics Both | 6 | 3-2-2 |
| MEGC 511 | Financial Modelling, Analysis and Valuation Performance | 6 | 3-2-4 |
| MEGC 512 | Capital, Investment and Deal Structuring Both | 5 | 3-2-2 |
| Code | Course | CU | Hours |
|---|---|---|---|
| FDC 503 | Governance, Ethics and Leadership of Intelligent Systems Both | 4 | 2-2-0 |
| MEGC 520 | Scaling Operations and Value Creation Performance | 5 | 2-2-4 |
| MEGC 521 | Markets, Competition and Strategy Both | 4 | 2-2-2 |
| MEGC 522 | Data and Intelligent Systems for Growth and Capital Performance | 4 | 2-2-4 |
| MEGC 523 | Risk, Governance and Leadership in Growth Objective | 3 | 2-2-0 |
| MEGC 530 | Enterprise Growth and Capital Project Performance | 15 | 0-2-12 |
Total credit units: 60
Curriculum source
Forward University Curriculum Compendium
Assessment
Coursework + project + integrated exam
Work-integrated learning
12 months paid co-operative education
Your week at Forward
A typical week on Master of Science in Enterprise Growth and Capital
Path One, the Term Model: your own pace across a six-month term, one live session a week, short flexible lessons, and assessment on demand.
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Curriculum explorer
Drill into the degree, step by step
Choose a study path, then a year, then a term or block, then a course. Credit totals add up as you go, and every course shows what comes before it and what it unlocks.
Step 1, choose a year
Step 2, choose a term
SEMESTER 1 | YEAR 1 | 25 COMPETENCY UNITS
Year 1 · this step is worth 25 CU
Cumulative
25
Programme total
60
25 CU of 60 CU completed by the end of this step (42%)
Step 3, choose a course
Pick a course to see the detail
Credits, assessment, prerequisites and what each course unlocks later.
The twelve Forward capabilities
What this programme develops in you
Every Forward degree develops the same twelve cross-cutting capabilities. The profile below is the level this programme is designed to develop and verify by graduation, on the four-level scale in Part B2 of the Curriculum Compendium. Every claim above Level 2 is verified by someone other than the teaching lecturer.
- C1Intelligent Systems FluencyLevel 3 of 4, Independent
- C2Quantitative and Evidential Reasoning CriticalLevel 4 of 4, Leading
- C3Ethical and Contextual JudgementLevel 4 of 4, Leading
- C4Communication and Persuasion CriticalLevel 4 of 4, Leading
- C5Disciplinary MasteryLevel 3 of 4, Independent
- C6Technical Production and CraftLevel 3 of 4, Independent
- C7Problem Framing and Systems ThinkingLevel 4 of 4, Leading
- C8Collaboration and Multidisciplinary Teaming CriticalLevel 4 of 4, Leading
- C9Enterprise, Value and Commercial Literacy CriticalLevel 4 of 4, Leading
- C10Professional Conduct and Workplace PerformanceLevel 4 of 4, Leading
- C11Learning to Learn and Adaptive CapacityLevel 3 of 4, Independent
- C12Stewardship and Public ContributionLevel 4 of 4, Leading
Critical capabilities for this programme: Quantitative and Evidential Reasoning · Communication and Persuasion · Collaboration and Multidisciplinary Teaming · Enterprise, Value and Commercial Literacy. A graduate cannot pass out of this programme below the stated level on any capability marked critical.
Programme Learning Outcomes
What you will be able to do
Each outcome is assessed, and each is tagged with the Forward capabilities it is verified against.
- PLO 1Diagnose why an enterprise is not growing and design a deployable growth strategy.
- PLO 2Model an enterprise financially and value it defensibly.
- PLO 3Structure and access the right capital for a growth need.
- PLO 4Lead the operational execution of a growth or scale up plan.
- PLO 5Analyse a market and competitive position with evidence.
- PLO 6Apply data and intelligent systems to growth and capital decisions.
- PLO 7Manage the risk, governance and people of a scaling enterprise.
- PLO 8Pitch and defend a C3, C8 growth strategy or investment to a board and investors.
- PLO 9Deliver a real growth or C6, C8 capital engagement with a measured outcome.
- PLO 10Acquire and demonstrate C10 a new capability without formal instruction, evidenced in the Capability Passport.
Why this programme exists
Africa is full of small enterprises that never grow and promising companies that stall for want of capital and the capability to deploy it, and the missing profession is the growth operator who can take a viable business and scale it, and the capital professional who can finance that growth. This taught, project heavy masters is built for managers, founders, analysts and finance professionals who will grow companies and structure the capital behind them, and it treats growth and capital as one discipline. The emphasis is on the deployable playbook and the real deal, and the programme terminates in a growth or capital engagement with a real company.
Admission requirements
A good first degree (second class or above) in any field with demonstrated quantitative capability, or substantial business or finance experience admitted through recognition of prior learning; plus a short quantitative and reasoning task scored against Capabilities C2 and C9. All applicants must demonstrate competence in English, the language of instruction, through their qualifications or an approved proficiency test under Part A. International and non standard qualifications are assessed for equivalence against the profile above under the Credential Portability provisions, so that a suitably prepared applicant may enter from anywhere in the world. Selection considers the whole application, including the structured admission task, and is conducted without discrimination under the University's admissions policy. Alternative pathways: recognition of prior learning against the admission profile under Part G, including substantial professional practice in lieu of the named first degree field. Online components require the Digital Readiness orientation under Part D6.