Program Overview

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Course Overview

Are you fascinated by the world of business?Do you dream of becoming a future leader?**

Our Business Management degree will help you become an ethical, values-driven professional, equipping you with employability-focused skills to help you thrive in your future career.

Become an expert in a range of business functions and topics while developing specialist transferrable skills in management, sales, communications, leadership and more. With 86% of large organisations facing skills shortages (The Open University Business Barometer, 2022), now it’s the time to make the first step towards your career ambitions.

This programme will allow you to learn about business management knowledge, theory and principles in work-based situations. You will have the chance to critically review and practice the skillset of analysing information and data from a range of sources, as well as making reasoned judgements and solving complex problems in various business contexts.

• Learn to identify and analyse future business trends
• Become an inclusive, ethical andvalue-driven global citizen and leader
• Learn from the experts and get ‘real-world’ ready through guest speakers’ events
• Gain access toSolent’s virtual learning environment , with quick online access to assignments, lecture notes, suggested reading and more
• Balance your full-time studies with your personal life with flexible study options , such as evenings and weekends

This course is delivered as part of a partnership between QA Higher Education and Solent University. The programme is validated by the University and delivered by QA Higher Education.

Key Information

• Level: Undergraduate
• Entry Requirements: 112-128 UCAS points
• Tuition Fees: 2025/26: £9,535 (per annum)
• Duration: 3 years
• Assessment Methods: Coursework
• Start Date: October and February
• Next Application Deadline: October 2025
• Location: London/Birmingham/Manchester

Teaching and Assessment

• Lectures, seminars, and workshops: 9 – 12 hours per week
• Independent study: 38 hours per week
• Assessment: coursework , presentations and business simulation

Blended Learning

The future is becoming more and more digital. Our blended learning approach allows you to develop all necessary skills to thrive in the digital era. You’ll get the best of both worlds with a balance of face-to-face and online teaching, building your confidence ready for success in the digital workplace.

Receiving the same number of live contact hours as face-to-face programmes, a typical timetable may include:

• Daytime students – If you are a daytime student, you will typically have 2 days of tuition per week – your sessions will be on-campus for 1 of those days and the other day will take place live online.
• Evening and weekend students – Evening and weekend blended timetables will typically follow one of the below patterns each week:
  • 2 evenings live online and 1 weekend day face-to-face on-campus, or
  • 2 evenings face-to-face on-campus and 1 weekend day live online

Modules

All units are core and are worth 20 credits, unless specified.

Year 1

• Positive Psychology for Success
  • Set important foundations for success in your studies and future.
  • Learn about theories and techniques for success
  • Build your academic study skills
  • Boost your employability and career prospects by developing key independent learning skills
  • Get the chance to create your own personal professional development (PPD) plan to stay agile, adaptable and future-ready
• Creative Enterprise & Innovation
  • Explore key strategies and cultures that promote creativity, enterprise and innovation.
  • Examine leading individuals and organisations
  • Learn about theory in a practical way
  • Develop your own entrepreneurial capacity
  • Learn how to be creative, enterprising and innovative for others
• Contemporary Management Theory
  • Develop a consistent plan of action so the ‘future you’ can reach for the stars with your career aspirations.
  • Expand your understanding of key managerial concepts
  • Learn about organisational purpose and structure
  • Explore key topics such as leadership, corporate culture, ethics, strategic decision-making, diversity and employment law
  • Make the most of a hands-on approach through case studies from today’s business environment
• Business Finance for Managers
  • Get to grips with finance and accounting, an essential part of any management role.
  • Explore financial controls, budgeting, profit and loss, financial statements and more
  • Develop your skills quickly and efficiently through practical problem-based interactive sessions
• Marketing, Sales & Negotiation Skills
  • Discover the critical role of marketing in business, gaining vital skills applicable within a variety of professional contexts.
  • Learn about a range of marketing techniques, from understanding customers’ motivations to engagement and measuring effectiveness
  • Explore key marketing concepts and terminology
  • Delve into the fundamental role of digital and content marketing
• Data Analysis Tools & Applications
  • Explore how digital technology has fundamentally reshaped traditional business, and how businesses try to keep up.
  • Learn to collect, analyse, and interpret data
  • Develop the ability to present your findings effectively
  • Gain practical data analysis knowledge, boosting your employability prospects

Year 2

• Project Management in Business
  • Learn about best practice for project management, exploring contemporary challenges and techniques.
  • Study a syllabus informed by the Association for Project Management (APM) standards
  • Explore topics such as stakeholder engagement, communications and leadership
• Operations Management
  • Learn about the value of and how to ensure customer satisfaction.
  • Examine processes, tools and techniques used in operations management
  • Analyse and evaluate delivery issues
  • Apply your knowledge in practice
• Global Challenges for Sustainable Growth
  • The global business landscape is at one of the most complex and challenging times. Explore how to become a sustainable future manager and global citizen.
  • Examine, evaluate and assess some of the most important contemporary issues faced by business organisations
  • Understand how to assess and adapt to be able to consider these challenges, keeping up with the speed of global change to maintain competitive advantage
  • Explore current global megatrends including rapid urbanisation, demographic and social change, shifts in global economic power, technological advances, resource scarcity and climate change
  • Learn about how the UK’s Industrial Strategy identified areas of strength to ensure competitive advantage for the UK across the world
• Social Enterprise
  • Show employers you are socially responsible by gaining knowledge on the role, legal status and challenges of social and community enterprise.
  • Learn about and understand ethical business
  • Develop your own awareness of social enterprise
  • Learn to become a values-motivated leader
• Values Driven Leadership
  • Develop your managerial skills by reflecting on self-management.
  • Explore ideas of self-management, personal values and journey
  • Learn to combine essential management and leadership skills to successfully manage teams
• Customer Experience
  • This module brings marketing to life! Customer experience is a dynamic, complex and challenging matter for marketers.
  • Learn more about CE, which is seen as the future of marketing, with current research suggesting that CEOs’ and CMOs’ biggest headache is delivering customer experience for competitive advantage
  • Gain an introduction into models and concepts reflecting contemporary perspectives on the customer experience
  • Explore topics including the Pillars of Customer Experience and the experience economy

Year 3

• Sustainable Strategic Management
  • Learn how senior managers and chief executive officers identify, select and manage strategy.
  • Critically evaluate a wide range of strategic management theories and models, and
  • Learn how to apply those theories and strategically implement them
• Research Methods
  • Research into approaches to business, management and leadership can lead to dynamic results. Learn how to conduct focused research on a business topic of your own choice.
  • Develop your research and analytical skills in a practical way
  • Get career-ready by developing highly transferrable critical thinking skills
  • Consider your options and explore a topic of particular interest to you, including innovation, product development, performance improvement, change, customer service excellence, strategy, problem solving and more
• Developing the Professional Manager
  • Develop into a professional manager by understanding your own strengths and how the job market works.
  • Understand, analyse and evaluate your aspirations
  • Create a career development plan to start your own business or secure a graduate position
  • Explore digital profiles, job hunting, how to stand out, and more
• Ecological Economics
  • The future of business is changing, and to keep up with the climate emergency it needs to change even faster. Learn how to become a future manager and leader in the context of ecological economy.
  • Consider climate change and the underlying economics
  • Critically evaluate proposed solutions and their ecological and economic impacts
  • Boost your critical thinking as well as your social and economic awareness
• Business Start-up
  • Develop the knowledge to overcome barriers to entrepreneurism, and learn all the management techniques necessary to take your business from aspiration to reality.
  • Explore the main reasons holding back entrepreneurs, from lack of capital to fear of failure
  • Learn about the tools and techniques to overcome them, including planning and development
  • Gain practical knowledge to prepare you for your future as an entrepreneur
• Final Major Project
  • Apply research and analytical skills to your chosen topic of business, developing important independent learning skills.
  • Carry out primary research on a business topic of your own choice
  • Interpret your findings using relevant tools and techniques, demonstrating your research and analytical skills
  • Formulate informed options to draw conclusions and recommendations
  • Become an expert in a business area relevant to your career ambitions

Academic Requirements

• 112-128 UCAS points
• BTEC Extended Diploma at MMM or BTEC Diploma at DD, or equivalent
• GCSE Mathematics at Grade 4/C or above. Alternatively, applicants can sit the QA Higher Education Maths test.

English Language Requirements

• GCSE English at Grade 4/C or above.
• IELTS 6.0 with no component less than 5.5 in each band, or equivalent. Alternatively, applicants can sit the QA Higher Education English test.

Careers

Over the five years through , the industry revenue for Management Consultants in the UK is expected to grow at a compound annual rate of 2.2% to reach £70.2 billion (Ibis World 2022).

This course is the first step towards your career goals, providing the skills and knowledge needed to succeed.

• Marketing
• Project Management
• Leadership
• Finance
• Communications
• Problem solving

Developing skills that are industry-focused and transferrable, you will be the ideal candidate for jobs in a variety of fields and sectors.

Recent graduates have gone on to become recruitment consultants, operations managers, analysts and TV research executives at companies including Stearn Electric, Proco Global, Kingfisher and Grahame Robb Associates.

Competitive job roles this programme might open up for you:

• Marketing and Sales Director
• Management Consultant
• Recruitment Consultant
• Human Resource Officer
• Business Analyst
• Financial Manager
• Business Development Executive
• Project Manager
• Account Manager