Business Management with Entrepreneurship and Innovation with Foundation Year

Foundation courses
A foundation year can develop your skills and make it easier to get started at university. It is an extra year of study at the start of your course that leads in to a full degree programme. It’s a great option if:
You don’t have the grades for a full degree course
You have non-traditional qualifications or experience
You’re starting university after some time away from education
You’re looking for more support during the transition into university study.

Life as a foundation year student
During a foundation year you’ll learn about your chosen subject, develop your study skills and get used to university life. On successful completion of your foundation year, you’ll be ready to progress to the first year of your degree course.
As a foundation year student, you’ll be a full student of the University and part of our community. You’ll have access to all our campus facilities and support.

Why choose this course

• Our business management courses give you the opportunity to explore how organisations of all sizes start, run, develop and thrive.

• Our award-winning Professional Training placements prepare students for roles in industry.

• At Surrey Business School we inspire positive change in business and society, individuals and organisations, locally and globally by delivering impactful research and courses which promote a global, entrepreneurial and digital mindset for the future of business.

What you will study
Entrepreneurial mindset is at the heart of innovative forward-looking organisations, striving to develop and grow in dynamic markets. Entrepreneurs are innovators who either build businesses from scratch, or work within their organisations and explore new opportunities to maximise the value creation.

This course offers a wide variety of modules on topics including entrepreneurial decision-making, managing innovation, doing business in the digital economy, developing digital projects, effective business model design, growth strategies in international markets, business planning as well as core business topics.

You’ll gain an overall view of entrepreneurial activities and explore different ways to approach innovation management and embed digital tools into the business models.

You’ll also learn how to consider financial and institutional systems in supporting entrepreneurship in different economies and gain an analytical framework for implementing innovation in the organisations of various types.

All our business management students follow the same first year in order to build a solid foundation on which to specialise. This means you can transfer to any of our specialist business management degree pathways. Please see their individual course pages for further information.

• Business Management BSc (Hons)

• Business Management with Business Analytics BSc (Hons)

• Business Management with Marketing BSc (Hons)

• International Business Management BSc (Hons)

• Business Management with Human Resource Management BSc (Hons).