BA (Hons) in Business and Management (with Foundation Year)

Program Overview

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Business and Management (with Foundation Year)

Overview

Our Business and Management degree with a Foundation Year starts from day one building essential business skills to prepare you for degree level study. You won't just study theory. You'll learn to develop your own ideas and uncover your potential to shape the future.

Why Oxford Brookes University?

• Perfect preparation: Build essential study skills with an integrated foundation year. Gain academic confidence, improve critical thinking, and strengthen subject knowledge for your degree journey.
• Develop enterprise skills: Our core modules develop your practical workplace skills like resilience and innovation. Our experienced staff help you develop the skills that employers really value.
• Employability throughout the course: Modules like Professional Practice or activities like skills audits and the mock assessment centre help you stand out to future employers.
• Sustainability is part of who we are: We signed up to the UN’s Principles for Responsible Management Education so you can be confident you will learn business the right way.
• Flexibility to personalise: First year is shared with other courses, so you can transfer to specialise in a different area. The course includes optional modules in areas like finance or governance.
• Learn a language: Our university-wide language programme is available to full-time undergraduate and postgraduate students on many of our courses, and can be taken as a credit on some courses.
• Accreditation(s): Accredited by the European Foundation for Management Development (EFMD) and the Chartered Management Institute (CMI)

Course details

Course structure

Throughout the course you’ll cover a broad range of topics, learn about different business theories and understand how they apply in the real world. In your foundation year you will study a foundation in business which will give you confidence, essential academic skills and better insight into your degree course.

The first year of your degree is shared with International Business Management and Business and Enterprise. That means you can change to one of the other courses after your first year if you discover those will suit you better.

Year two builds on your knowledge and looks at more advanced topics. Work on a live business project will enhance your employability skills and optional modules give you the opportunity to specialise.

After year two you can take an optional work placement year to develop your CV and gain more experience in the world of business.

Your final year will put your knowledge and skills to the test as you undertake research and work on practical projects. Optional modules cover a range of subjects, from human rights to marketing.

Learning and teaching

We believe learning should be exciting as well as challenging. We encourage you to take an active approach to your studies.

Teaching methods include:

• Problem-solving classes
• Dragons’ Den-type assessments involving local employers
• Sessions working with actors to develop presentation skills.

At the Business School we want you to enjoy developing the skills you will need to succeed in the competitive business world.

Later in the course more emphasis is placed on learning specialist knowledge.

We aim to provide opportunities for you to work with business professionals. For example, using guest speakers and live cases from the business community.

Assessment

We pay particular attention to when and how feedback is given to support your learning.

We make use of a range of feedback methods, including:

• Audio
• Face-to-face
• Written feedback.

Assessment includes a mix of written exams, practical exams, and coursework.

Most teaching and assessment activities take place between Mondays and Fridays, 9am to 7pm. There may be occasions when such activities may fall outside of these hours.

Study modules

Foundation Year

• University Study Skills
• Culture and Communication
• Business Fundamentals
• Critical Thinking and Problem Solving
• Extended Research Essay
• Economics for Business
• Development Studies
• Global Issues
• Ideas and Ideologies
• Tourism and Hospitality
• English Law
• Maths and Statistics for University Study

Year 1

• Finance for Managers
• Exploring International Business
• The Entrepreneur
• Business in Society
• Work, Employment and Globalisation
• Professional Practice 1
• The Business Life Cycle

Year 2

• International Business Strategy
• Environmentally Sustainable Business
• Organisational Behaviour and Management
• Live Client Strategic Project
• Applied Financial Skills
• Responsible Marketing Management
• Placement Search and Preparation
• Accounting for Managers
• Introduction to People Management
• Leading with Purpose: Lessons from the Nonprofit Sector
• International Markets and Competition
• Family and Society in Business
• Design Thinking and Project Management
• Operations and Supply Chain Management
• Business Analytics and Decision Making

Optional Placement Year

• Placement
• Full Year International Study Abroad
• Short Placement
• Work-based Learning

Final Year

• Professional Practice 3
• Business Governance and Human Rights
• Business Strategy and Futures in Disrupted Environments
• Entrepreneurial Business Management
• Dissertation Enquiry
• Enquiry Oriented Research Project
• Entrepreneurial Business Ideation
• Entrepreneurial Business Launch
• Social Enterprise and Social Innovation
• Leading and Managing Change
• Business Ethics
• Contemporary Issues in International HRM
• Critical Management
• Business and Artificial Intelligence
• Responsible Leadership
• Business Law
• Contemporary Issues in Finance
• International Marketing

Careers

Our teaching team have experience in a wide range of business roles. They'll help you develop the academic and applied skills you need for your career. Graduates go on to a wide range of roles at large companies like Aldi, Virgin Mobile, Intel and Yell, as well as innovative micro businesses in a range of industries. Some also go on to start their own business.

You might work in:

• Start-ups
• Charities
• Multinational business
• Government
• Education.

This degree gives you options to specialise so you can start to work towards a specific career goal.

Entry requirements

• UCAS Tariff Points: 48
• A Level: DD
• IB Points: 24
• BTEC: PPP or MP

English language requirements

Please see the University's standard English language requirements.

Pathways courses for international and EU students

If you do not meet the entry requirements for this degree, or if you would like more preparation before you start, you can take an international foundation course. Once you enrol, you will have a guaranteed pathway to this degree if you pass your foundation course with the required grades.

If you only need to meet the language requirements, you can take our pre-sessional English course. You will develop key language and study skills for academic success and you will not need to take an external language test to progress to your degree.

Funding your studies

Financial support and scholarships

Featured funding opportunities available for this course.

• Oxford Brookes Bursary for Continuing Students
• Undergraduate maintenance loans for part-time UK students
• Undergraduate maintenance loans for full-time UK students
• Undergraduate tuition fee loans for UK students
• Oxford Brookes Bursary for New Students

All financial support and scholarships

View all funding opportunities for this course

Tuition fees

2025 / 26

• Home (UK) full time: £5,760 (Foundation); £9,535 (Degree)
• Home (UK) part time: £720 per single module (Foundation); £1,190 per single module (Degree)
• International full time: £17,100

2026 / 27

• Home (UK) full time: £5,760 (Foundation); £9,535 (Degree)
• Home (UK) part time: £720 per single module (Foundation); £1,190 per single module (Degree)
• International full time: £19,700

Additional costs

Please be aware that some courses will involve some additional costs that are not covered by your fees. Specific additional costs for this course are detailed below.

Optional costs

• It’s your responsibility to cover print / binding costs where coursework submission is required. Please note that a lot of the coursework is now submitted online. (£30)
• You may choose to purchase books to support your studies. Many books on our reading lists are available via the Library, or can be purchased secondhand. (£20-60 per book)
• Accommodation fees in Brookes Letting (most do not include bills) (£94-265 per week)
• Accommodation fees in university halls (bills included, excluding laundry costs) (£122-180 per week)
• Graduation costs include tickets, gowning and photography. Gowns are not compulsory but typically students do hire robes, starting at £41. (£0-200)
• Students are responsible for their own travel to and from university for classes. For the 2025/26 academic year, the University is introducing an alternative subsidised travel offer for all students with further information on our Travel webpages. (£10)