BA (Hons) Business Management with Placement Year

Our Business Management degree is designed specially to allow you to develop the kind of effective managerial behaviour that is desired within many different organisations. Today’s changing business environment means that it’s vital to be able to bring more than just academic knowledge to a company. We want to make sure that you’ll gain the important knowledge and skills employers are looking for.

With our practical approach to teaching, you’ll also get to develop transferable skills such as research, presentation, critical analysis, problem solving, team work and entrepreneurship.

After graduating you’ll have a variety of career options available to you, including roles such as a management consultant, business analyst, operations manager, or an entrepreneur. If you would like to further your studies after graduating, you could consider studying a postgraduate MSc Strategic Business Management or a Master's in Business Administration (MBA).

This programme is accredited with a professionally-recognised Chartered Management Institute qualification. Upon graduation, you will also receive the CMI Level 5 Extended Diploma in Management and Leadership. You’ll automatically become a member of the CMI for the duration of your course and one year after, providing you with access to a wealth of resources and employability events.

Placement Year
Our degrees are built around preparing you for the workplace and with that in mind, we encourage students to select the option to undertake a placement year.

Taking place in the 3rd year of a 4-year degree, you’ll have the opportunity to find paid work, putting the learning of your first 2 years into practice to develop and enhance real world skills to launch your career.

So how does it work?
Whilst you will be responsible for finding your own placement, our dedicated Business Employability Team will be on hand to support you through the process. The hours per week that you work will be determined by your placement organisation, however, expect it to be between 18 hours and 35 hours per week for a minimum of 30 weeks. If you’re not successful in securing a placement then not to worry - you’ll simply transfer to a non-placement version of your course. The final assessment for the Placement Year is a reflective presentation summarising your learning and experience.

Our placement year courses are open to everyone including international students, who can contact our International office for specific advice and guidance.

YEAR ONE

- Essentials of Management

- Academic and Professional Studies

- Principles of Marketing

- Accounting and Finance

- International Business Environment

- Managing and Leading People

YEAR TWO

COMPULSORY

- Leading Change

- Corporate Responsibility in Global Context

- Economics and Global Trade

- Personal and Professional Development

ELECTIVES (CHOOSE TWO FROM BELOW)

- Information and Resource Management

- Financial Management

- Personal Finance

- Contemporary Human Resource Management

- International Resource Management

- Customer Behaviour

- Marketing communications in a Digital World

PLACEMENT YEAR

YEAR THREE

COMPULSORY

- Sector Specific Project/Sector Internship/Dissertation

- Global Leadership

- Strategic Management

- Creativity Innovation and Entrepreneurship

ELECTIVES (CHOOSE ONE FROM BELOW)

- Effective Managerial Decision Making

- Financial Risk Management

- International Digital Marketing

- Strategic Human Resource Management

Grades BBC at A Level and Grade C or grade 4 or above in GCSE Maths and English Language (or equivalent qualifications).

In addition to the above entry requirements, applicants with further professional body qualifications (papers) applying for BSc Accounting & Finance have the following options:

ACCA F1-F4 or CIMA BA1-BA4: direct entry to Year 2

ACCA F1-F9: direct entry to Year 3

For international students, we require an English language level equivalent to IELTS 6.0 or above, with a minimum of 5.5 in each component.

We are now offering a pre-sessional English course to students who need to improve their English skills