Program Overview

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Programme Structure

Course Overview

Developing the versatility, vision, and wisdom that future business leaders need to thrive in a rapidly changing business environment.

Key Features

Key Features

• Learning through Practice
  • Students resolve contemporary business issues and challenges, developing academic and professional skills.
• Tailor Your Studies
  • Choose from a wide range of option modules from Level 5 (Year 2) to suit career objectives. These include finance, marketing, sustainability, business ethics, entertainment, and sports modules.
• Industry Insights
  • Practitioners share real-world experiences, incorporating insights into practical business issues, such as the circular economy in business operations.
• Critical Thinking and Enquiry
  • Students adopt a critical approach to ideas and issues, evaluating company performance in areas like strategy, sustainability, supply chain, and global business through research-led assessments.
• Career-Related Experience
  • Develop practical skills using current business computing and software, such as Tableau Data Visualisation, FAME, and Microsoft Office suite.

Year 1

An introduction to the functions of business organisations, the business environment, key management skills, and competencies including information gathering and analysis, accounting, economics, marketing, and organisational behaviour.

Core Modules

• Global Economies and the Business Environment
• Analytics for Decision Making
• Behaviour in Organisations
• Accounting and Finance for Business
• Marketing for Business Managers

Choose an additional option module that broadens skills or gains in-depth knowledge, possibly including a foreign language.

Level: 4 Credits

Year 2

Further learning about the contemporary business environment, sustainable business, operations, people management, and managerial functions.

Core Modules

• Supply Chain, Operations Management, and Digital Business
• Leadership and Development
• Sustainable City Economies

Select three optional modules from a range of course and elective options, such as Project Management, Web-enabled Business, Ethics and Social Responsibility in Marketing, Sports Marketing, Corporate Governance, Entrepreneurial Practice, or a language module. Alternatively, students may opt for the WBS Study Abroad Experience or WBS Work Experience.

Level: 5 Credits

Optional Work Placement/Study Abroad Year

Between Years 2 and 3, there is an optional work placement or study abroad year. The work placement year provides full-time business work placement opportunities. Students have worked with various organizations including Barclays Bank, British Airways, Disney UK, IBM, and the National Health Service (NHS).

Year 3

Development of specialist knowledge through optional modules and application of critical and reflective approaches to address business challenges.

Core Modules

• Strategic Management
• Contemporary Issues in Business Management
• Developing My Professional Identity

Students choose one track and one elective module, one track option from another track, or two independent option modules and one elective from several available track options:

Tracks

• Finance and Accounting Options: Wealth Management, Banking Theory and Practice
• Global Business Options: Comparative International Management, Project and Programme Management
• Digital Business Options: Digital Analytics, Social Media for Business
• Marketing Options: Global Marketing Management, Interactive and Digital Marketing
• Economics Options: International Trade, Forecasting for Managers
• Entrepreneurship Options: Social and Green Innovation, Creating Entrepreneurial Leadership
• Sustainable Business Options: Sustainable Supply Chain Management, Social and Green Innovation
• Business Psychology Options: Business and Organisational Psychology for Management, Positive Psychology Coaching for Well-Being at Work

Level: 6 Credits

Entry Requirements

International Requirements

• IB - 112 UCAS tariff points from the IB Diploma. We consider both points awarded for individual subjects in the IB Diploma and the overall point score when assessing the UCAS tariff score.
• A levels and International Baccalaureate – Equivalent points as for A level. You can refer to the UCAS calculator to determine your points.
• High school diploma from some countries with additional conditions (such as an associate degree, advanced diplomas, advanced placements in AP subjects, etc.)

Find more on international high school level qualifications at University of Westminster International requirements

Career Options

This undergraduate degree will give students a versatile understanding of various areas of business to enhance employability in diverse industries and functions, leading to successful business or professional careers.

Employability Opportunities

Employers of past Westminster Business School graduates in Business Management have included companies such as Accenture, Airbus Group SE, American Express Company, BBC, Blackstone Group International LLP, Cerner, Charles Schwab & Company, Credit Suisse Securities, IBM United Kingdom Ltd, ICF Consultancy Services, Inc., Intel Corp (UK) Ltd, Institute of Engineering and Technology, John Lewis, Kelway, Knight Frank LLP, Linklaters, Logica UK, Ministry of Sound Group, New Era Network Solutions Limited, Ocado Group (Quilter Plc, UCL Hospitals), Office for National Statistics, RWE, Schneider Electric UK Ltd, Smiths Group Plc, Tata Steel Europe.

Possible roles after graduation include business development manager, data analysis and science manager, departmental and section manager, entrepreneur, environmental consultant, events co-ordinator, finance, investment banking analyst, international aid project officer, investment and portfolio manager, logistics co-ordinator, market researcher, market strategist manager, product marketing specialist, recruitment consultant, senior project officer in an NHS trust, sustainability project coordinator, sustainability manager in logistics.

Fees and Funding

International Students

• International Tuition Fees: £16,000 - (Full Time 2,700 for placement, year part of an extended programme)
• A limited number of University of Westminster Vice-Chancellor’s Scholarships (part and full) and departmental scholarships and discounts may be offered. More on the international students scholarship at Westminster

Please check Westminster's main scholarship webpage and contact Course Enquiries with your course details.

For details of funding options please look at International Funding.

Support for international students, more about pre sessional courses.

Accommodation, how we set tuition fees

UK Government Visa Regulations (Visas and Nationality Service, Guidance UK Visas, Nationality)

More Information

More details of International Entry, see here International Quals. More for our entry for Westminster

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