Business Management with Events Management

Please note: This course is advanced entry to Year 3 only (depending on your qualifications). Year 1 and Year 2 entry is available via our new Business Management course; N220.

Plan, market, budget for and run business events of all kinds on this Business Management with Events degree. With your specialism in events management, you’ll become a highly employable event organiser in a fast-growing business sector.

Join the events industry - worth £42.3 billion to the UK economy - and work with corporate events planners and agencies who are forecasting a big increase in employment opportunities.

You’ll learn how to organise, market, budget for and execute business events. With your specialism in events management (which also applies to tourism), you will become highly employable across many different types of organisations. This also includes digital events across a variety of platforms.

Outstanding business links and valuable work placements

We put employability at the forefront. By going beyond the classroom and working on projects such as  This includes the Innovation for Global Growth event, a unique opportunity for you to test your employability skills with real organisations. You'll gain a greater understanding of the realities of work, and enhance your CV at the same time. Alongside this, there are work placements and you can apply to study abroad.

By the time you graduate you'll have all the knowledge and transferrable skills needed to thrive in today's work environment.  So whether your ambition is to start your own business, or work for someone else, your skills and expertise will be relevant all over the world.

A flexible degree

You can tailor your studies to suit your interests and career plans.

This flexible degree is part of a larger portfolio of 12 courses covering business, accounting, law and marketing.

Abertay is widely regarded as THE place to come for high quality teaching. But don't take our word for it:

• Scotland's Top Modern University - Student Satisfaction (National Student Survey 2023).

• UK University of the Year 2021 - Teaching Quality (The Times/Sunday Times Good University Guide).

• UK Top 10 - Student Satisfaction & Teaching (Guardian Good University Guide 2021).

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You’ll be assessed via a combination of methods:

• Portfolio projects

• Presentations

• Examinations

• Group work

• Simulations

• Work assessments