Program Overview
Business touches almost every aspect of our world and this degree is designed specifically to meet the needs of modern business, opening up a wide range of rewarding careers. It also adapts to suit your goals, with options to specialise in specific business fields in your third year.
This course combines academic theory with practical real-world business projects, giving you experience of a spectrum of organisational roles. Making extensive use of the most up-to-date technology, you produce business plans and market analyses while developing the skills to tackle a range of business problems.
Over three years, you gain skills in problem-solving, work analysis, presentation, team-working, communication and critical thinking, all of which give you the potential to be a rounded, capable manager.
Why choose this course?
- Benefit from a degree that gives you the academic background, practical skills and opportunity to work on real-world business projects
- Study a general business pathway or, if a particular aspect of business excites you, choose to specialise in your final year. We offer Business Studies options in International Business, Project Management, Finance or Marketing
- Learn in our Business Pods, which simulate a modern office environment and introduce you to what it’s like in employment
- Take the course over four year and benefit from a fee-free placement (sandwich) year in industry (see below), gaining experience, building your CV and making contacts for the future
- If you need an entry route into degree-level study, start with a Foundation Year (see below), completion of which guarantees entry to this degree course
We support you every step of the way
We offer a Merit Scholarship, worth £2,400* over 3 academic years, which is awarded to those who can demonstrate a high level of academic achievement, through scoring 112 UCAS tariff points or more.