Program Overview

BSc (Honours) Airline and Airport Management (1 year top-up)

Course summary

Top up your existing qualifications to honours level. Learn about airline and airport strategic development management. Understand how safety and security management works in aviation. Collaborate with local and global organisations on real-world aviation projects. Build your professional network with aviation professionals, alumni and professional bodies. Visit airports to see aviation professionals putting theory into practice.

How you learn

• A combination of lectures, seminars and workshops
• Expert guest speakers
• Field trips and site visits
• Live projects with external organisations
• Independent study
• Group work

Modules

Final year

Compulsory modules

• Consultancy And Enterprise Challenge (40 credits)
  • Assessment: Coursework (70%), Practical (30%)
  • Module Aim: To prepare students for a career as a professional in festival, entertainment, hospitality, tourism and aviation management by providing an opportunity to work on a company-based project or their own venture, focusing on the application of business and management skills within an organisational context.
• Research Project (20 credits)
  • Assessment: Coursework (100%)
  • Aims: The module aims to engage students to identify a research question and to design and develop a research method to investigate this question presenting results in an academic research project format.
• Safety And Security Management In Aviation (20 credits)
  • Assessment: Coursework (30%), Practical (70%)
  • Aims: This module will enable students to identify and analyse the key safety and security issues in the aviation industry and critically examine how airlines and airports manage such issues.
• Strategic Management For Airline And Airport Development (40 credits)
  • Assessment: Coursework (100%)
  • Aims: Students will develop and apply the key strategic management principles and tools to the management and development of airlines and airports.

Future careers

• Airline and airport customer management
• Airline operations management
• Airport operations management
• Aviation safety and security management
• Air traffic management
• Pricing strategy and resource management
• Sales and marketing

Equipment and facilities

• Specialist airline management simulation software, including the Merlin Flight Simulator
• 24-hour libraries and study spaces designed by our students

Where will I study?

• City Campus

Entry requirements

• Normally one from:
  • a HND or foundation degree in a relevant subject, with an overall merit profile from year two modules
  • equivalent qualification in a relevant subject
• If English is not your first language you will need an IELTS score of 6.0 or above, with a minimum score of 5.5 in each skill.

Fees and funding

• Home students: £9,535 (2025/26)
• International students: £18,000 per year (2026/27)

Additional course costs

• General course additional costs
• Additional costs for Sheffield Business School (PDF, 277.5KB)