Program Overview

Program Details

Business Management and Geography (with Foundation Year)

BA (Hons)

Overview

Businesses must prioritize sustainability, no matter their sector or size. Progressing towards the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals is essential for protecting people and the planet—and future leaders like you will help make it happen.

Course Structure

• Foundation Year: Explore key business topics while building academic and professional skills.
• Year 1: Study business functions and how the external environment influences decision-making. Explore how geography helps understand our relationship with the natural world.
• Year 2: Apply knowledge to real-world issues and develop skills like critical thinking and collaboration.
• Optional Placement Year: Gain valuable work experience and build connections.
• Final Year: Develop a deeper understanding of business and management practices, as well as issues around environmental change, globalization, urbanization, and sustainability.

Course Details

Foundation Year

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

Year 1

• Compulsory Modules:
  • Exploring International Business
  • Professional Practice 1
  • Introduction to Human Geography
  • Introduction to Physical Geography
  • Investigating Geography
  • Introduction to Geographic Skills and Techniques

Year 2

• Compulsory Modules:
  • Professional Practice 2
  • International Business Strategy
  • Environmentally Sustainable Business
  • Geographical Enquiry and Field Research
  • Placement Search and Preparation (compulsory for sandwich mode)
• Optional Modules:
  • Cities: Geographies of the Urban Experience
  • Environmental Hazard Management
  • Earth Systems
  • Independent Study: Work and Community Related Learning
  • Political Geography: Place and Power
  • International Markets and Competition
  • Design Thinking and Project Management
  • Family and Society in Business

Optional Placement Year

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

Final Year

• Compulsory Modules:
  • Business Governance and Human Rights
  • Business Strategy and Futures in Disrupted Environments
  • Professional Practice 3
• Optional Modules:
  • Arid Zone Environments
  • Future Cities
  • Disasters, Development and Society
  • Business Ethics
  • Leading and Managing Change
  • Sustainable Futures
  • Climate Change: The Physical Basis
  • Social Enterprise and Social Innovation
  • Geography Dissertation OR Interdisciplinary Dissertation (Double)

Careers

With this degree, you’ll be able to show employers you understand the practices of business and management, as well as the issues around environmental change, globalization, urbanization, and sustainability. Our graduates go in a range of different directions, including:

• Environmental management
• Conservation
• Leisure and tourism
• Consultancy
• Geography teaching
• Graduate training schemes in international companies
• Roles in advertising, banking, the Civil Service, the arts and media, and services management

Entry Requirements

• Standard Offer: UCAS Tariff Points: 48, A Level: DD, IB Points: 24, BTEC: PPP or MP
• Further Offer Details: Applications are also welcomed for consideration from applicants with European qualifications, international qualifications, or recognized foundation courses.
• English Language Requirements: Please see the University’s standard English language requirements.

Tuition Fees

• 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

Funding Your Studies

• Financial Support and Scholarships: 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