Business Management

This BSc Business Management is constantly evolving to reflect the changing world of business. It aims to provide you with an understanding of different areas of business and a solid foundation for a career in business management. It focuses on developing your academic knowledge and provides you with practical skills to enable you to succeed in the workplace.

Why choose this course?

• This course is distinctive in its flexibility, the option modules offered, and the chance to specialise on one of its Pathways.

• Our academics are research active so their international collaborations and research activities feed into our teaching to make it relevant and topical.

• It also offers you the chance to take a Placement to enhance your career prospects, build your professional networks and apply the knowledge and skills you have gained in a work context.

What you will learn

You will develop an understanding of the key concepts in the business management discipline and explore the application of these concepts in practice. You will gain practical knowledge by engaging with practitioners to address real-life challenges.

You can apply for this course or specialise further on one of the following Pathway courses:

• BSc Business Management (Human Resource Management)

• BSc Business Management (Innovation and Entrepreneurship)

• BSc Business Management (International Business)

How you will learn

You will learn via lectures, seminars, presentations and group discussions. To help you gain practical knowledge, we also host guest speakers and offer you live case study sessions and panel discussions with entrepreneurs and practitioners.

You can study this course full- or part-time and choose your own timetable for the core/compulsory modules selecting whether to study them in the daytime or in the evening.

Placement route

If you opt for the full-time Placement route on this course, it will give you the opportunity to develop your business skills in the workplace and apply learning from your degree in a professional setting to further increase your employability when you graduate. Please note that this option is not available for students who require a Student visa to study in the UK.

Foundation Year

If you opt for the Foundation Year route, this will fully prepare you for undergraduate study. It is ideal if you are returning to study after a gap, or if you have not previously studied the relevant subjects, or if you didn't achieve the grades you need for a place on your chosen undergraduate degree.

Highlights

• Birkbeck is an internationally recognised centre of excellence in teaching, research and consultancy in the broad field of management.

• Our academic staff are active researchers, as well as enthusiastic teachers, and regularly publish cutting-edge articles in the world's leading journals.

• We have particular research strengths in international business and strategy, the management of innovation and entrepreneurship, human resource management, corporate governance, sport management and marketing, as well as financial management and accounting.

• We engage in significant collaborative research and have excellent contacts with many public and private sector organisations, professional bodies and researchers at other academic institutions.

Careers and employability

On successfully graduating from this course you will have gained an array of transferable skills, including:

• analytical skills

• an understanding of decision making in organisations

• quantitative skills

• communication and interpersonal skills

• an appreciation of the impact of new technologies and globalisation on the business management function.

Graduates can pursue career paths in business, management, accounting or human resources management. Possible professions include:

• human resources officer

• management consultant

• corporate investment banker

• marketing executive.

Course modules

For information about course structure and the modules you will be studying, please visit Birkbeck’s online prospectus.