Business Management with Professional Placement Year

Reasons to choose Kingston

• You’ll graduate with a business degree and the real-life practical experience and skills that employers are looking for.

• This course is designed and developed in collaboration with industry experts across different areas of the business world to ensure content reflects latest trends, challenges and practices.

• Kingston Business School has been recognized for quality by the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB). This award is earned by just six percent of the world’s business schools.

• Graduate employability is embedded in module activities and extracurricular events such as networking with industry professionals, hackathons and speed interviewing.

• Our commitment to high quality teaching has been recognised with a Teaching Excellence Framework (TEF) Gold rating. The University has received an overall rating of Gold, as well as securing a Gold award in the framework's two new student experience and student outcomes categories.

About this course
This degree prepares you for a career in business management, giving you the skills, knowledge, and experience to succeed.

It includes hands-on, practical experience through working on real business and real-world problems, consultancy projects with real clients, and opportunities for internships. You’ll also have lots of support to set up your own business too. A personal development programme will help you discover your career ambitions and strengths and prepare you for your next step.

The experiences you’ll gain will help you establish a business network and stand out from the crowd when starting your career. You’ll learn from academic tutors, experienced executives, and experts from the industry and each other.

You’ll also have the flexibility to take exciting module options, skills development, and additional qualifications to deepen your understanding and expertise, and ensure your profile stands out.

Professional Placement Year
This course has a professional placement year which takes place between Year 2 and your Final Year. During this year you will take a placement within a business setting, ensuring you gain essential experience to add to your CV and help you secure a graduate job.

Future Skills
Embedded within every course curriculum and throughout the whole Kingston experience, Future Skills will play a role in shaping you to become a future-proof graduate, providing you with the skills most valued by employers such as problem-solving, digital competency, and adaptability.

As you progress through your degree, you'll learn to navigate, explore and apply these graduate skills, learning to demonstrate and articulate to employers how future skills give you the edge.

At Kingston University, we're not just keeping up with change, we're creating it.

Career opportunities
Graduates work in a variety of organizations, from large companies and SMEs to social enterprises. Some start their own businesses or progress to postgraduate degrees and professional qualifications.

Example modules

• Leadership, Transformation, and Complexity
• Global Business Environments
• Marketing and Sales
• Building Business Strategy

To view the full list of modules, please visit the University course webpage.

Assessment typically comprises exams (e.g. tests or exams), practical (e.g. presentations, performance), and coursework (e.g. essays, reports, self-assessments, portfolios, dissertation).