Program Overview

Business Management and Finance (with a Foundation Year) BSc (Hons)

About the Foundation Year

Our four-year degree programmes (including a foundation year) provide an alternative route to undergraduate study at university if you do not have the grades to access higher education in the traditional way.

Course Content

Business Management and Finance will help you to understand the financial and economic aspects of businesses, how to manage and motivate people and how to build an organisation for success.

Management and development of a business requires an understanding of the changes taking place in the business world, society, consumer markets, financial issues, organisational strategy, global economies and digital technology. You will learn how all these factors combined with the ability to understand key financial aspects are critical to the sustained development of a business.

It is possible to gain professional accreditations and certificate exemptions by successfully completing selected core and optional Business Management and Finance modules.

Professional bodies include:

• Chartered Management Institute
• Chartered Institute of Management Accounting

Modules

• Core
  • Foundations of Business Communications
  • Thinking Critically, Creatively and Ethically
  • Taking a Professional Approach
  • Global Cities
  • Individual Project
  • Contemporary Marketing Practice
  • Introduction to Management
  • Organisational behaviour
  • Introduction to Accounting
  • Financial Management
  • Professional Skills
  • Corporate Finance
  • Behavioural Economics
  • Business Economics
  • Business Law
  • Management Accounting
  • Leadership in Organisations
• Optional
  • Global People Management
  • Experience and Employment in Business
  • Contributing to the Community
  • Financial Markets and Institutions
  • Corporate Governance and Social Responsibility
  • Strategy
  • Financial Reporting
  • Consultancy Project
  • Independent Study
  • Social enterprise
  • Managing in the workplace

Entry Requirements

• 48 UCAS points
• We understand that sometimes barriers you can't control get in the way of academic achievement. You are more than just your grades. We'll consider your application as a whole, taking into account things like:
  • subjects studied at Level 3
  • your GCSEs (or equivalent) profile
  • non-academic achievements you mention in your personal statement
  • your references and motivation.

Fees & Funding

• Tuition fees
  • Home: £9,535
  • International: £17,100
• Additional costs
  • Your tuition fees will cover the cost of all mandatory elements of your programme.
  • Additional costs could be incurred depending on optional modules chosen and other projects undertaken.
• Scholarships
  • Find out more about our range of scholarships and bursaries available to undergraduate students.
• Living costs
  • A guide to your living costs has been created by our Student Funding Team.
  • Accommodation costs vary depending on whether you opt for an en suite room and on-site catering.

How the Degree is Taught

• Contact time: 50%
• Independent study: 50%
• Teaching methods
  • Highly interactive lectures
  • Presentations from leading researchers and top management professionals and practitioners
  • Seminars
  • Individual tutorials
  • Online virtual learning environment
• Assessment methods
  • Business reports
  • Essays
  • Practical exercises
  • Presentations
  • Case studies
  • Examinations
  • Assessed blogs
  • Seminar and simulation exercises
  • Traditional exam-based assessments
• Feedback
  • We adhere to the university’s policy of providing feedback on assessments within 15 working days.

Career Opportunities

• Our Business Management and Finance degree will help you develop essential transferrable skills, such as teamwork, critical thinking, and time management.
• Some examples of job roles and areas of work for graduates of undefined include:
  • banking
  • insurance
  • law
  • business consultancy
  • marketing
  • leisure and sport
  • human resources

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