Course Overview

As well as developing the skills and knowledge required for either a career in business administration or as a professional marketer, the business management and marketing degree course will provide you with entrepreneurial skills and understanding that will allow you to start your own business.

If you are passionate about starting your own business, you’ll not only gain the necessary academic knowledge and skills on the course, but also receive encouragement and support through the Accelerator. Our Accelerator is a business incubator that helps students make their business dreams a reality by offering mentoring, advice and workshops. Accelerator has supported many successful budding entrepreneurs and can support you with developing any business idea you might have. Through the Accelerator you’ll also get the opportunity to enter our Big Idea Challenge for a chance to win a share of the £30,000 prize to launch your business.

This programme is uniquely comprehensive among business management and marketing courses in the UK. In addition to learning broad marketing skills that apply to the commercial world, the programme also provides you with opportunities to develop new specialist marketing skills to help improve society through the relatively new field of Social Marketing. If you choose to study this topic, you will learn how to apply the latest marketing techniques to social problems, such as obesity, drink-driving, discrimination and domestic violence. Your lecturers will introduce you to the concepts and history of social marketing based on their own innovative research. Completing this module will give you an advantage when competing for jobs in the third and public sector.

As part of the course, you’ll have the opportunity to undertake short and long accredited work placements. This opportunity may be strengthened with undertaking another of our innovative modules that equip you with skills for employment, such as our Theory and Practice of Selling module. As all business professionals know, selling is an essential function of business and on this module you’ll develop vital negotiation and selling techniques that will ensure you succeed in your career. Past students on the module have found that it has helped them gain recognition from the Institute of Sales and Marketing Management (ISMM), a professional organisation that represents sales professionals in the UK.

Our business management and marketing programme not only aims to improve your career opportunities, but also seeks to accelerate your cultural and personal growth. You’ll find opportunities to study abroad for a semester in places such as Europe, Japan or the USA, where you’ll be immersed in a new culture and acquire new perspectives. International students visiting from our partner institutions will also expand your world view and help you appreciate business management and marketing on an international scale.

General Eligibility

In addition to the University's standard entry requirements, you should have:

• a minimum of grades CCC in three A levels in academic or business subjects (or a minimum of 96 UCAS points from an equivalent Level 3 qualification, eg BTEC National, OCR Diploma or Advanced Diploma)

• English language and mathematics GCSE at grade C/grade 4 or above (or equivalent) are also required

Part Time Work Details

20 Hours of Work permit weekly for international students.

Language Requirement

• If English is not your first language, an IELTS score of 6.0 (including a minimum of 5.5 in each component) or equivalent is normally required.