Equine Business Management

Do you want to learn the four key fundamentals of equine business, including human resources, finance, management and marketing? If so, this programme is for you!

It will give you the opportunity to work within our commercial state-of-the-art equine facilities and liaise with companies to improve, adapt and innovate to respond to the ever-changing business environment.

Whilst studying with us you will be able to apply all these within core modules such as event management, sales and operations management.

You will learn how to apply the underpinning study of science to the business environment, providing you with valuable opportunities to gain employment within all aspects of the equestrian industry.

You will have opportunity to undertake a series of live projects to benefit from interactions with our extensive network of industry links and complete a summer placement to gain value insight and preparation for entering a range of roles upon graduating. You will also gain a plethora of entrepreneurial skills for setting up a business, or working within established companies both within and beyond the equine sector.

Students can access free British Horse Society exam training onsite during their studies, the examination cost and BHS membership is an additional cost (exams can be undertaken onsite).

Course Aims

• Allow you to develop a sound academic understanding of the broad range of business and management areas

• Provide you with a theoretical underpinning of business management, contextualised to the equine industry

• Equip you with vocational skills essential for entering a diverse range of employment opportunities within the equine business sector

• Develop you with the skills and knowledge in business management to be effective managers in the equine and/or rural industry

• Help you to develop into a proactive and independent graduate, able to apply and develop your own perspectives and explore alternative solutions within the equine industry.

Learning and Teaching Approach
This programme is delivered with a variety of learning and teaching approaches, utilising excellent onsite resources and extensive industry links for applied aspects. For all modules, there are theory lectures delivered, aimed to deliver the core content and provide the underpinning knowledge. Lectures are used to convey the basic concepts, and facilitate further expansion of such concepts by the students, through independent study. To complement the theory lectures, students have group seminars that are used to reinforce those concepts delivered theoretically.

The teaching methods focus on facilitating a student-centred approach to enhance the independent learning that takes place outside of the classroom.

Students can expect:

• Experienced, supportive and motivated staff with both academic and industrial experience.

• Access to an Online Virtual Learning Environment called iLearn, which is used to enhance and facilitate teaching and independent learning on all programmes.

• Guest lectures, demonstrations from a range of visiting speakers and offsite trips.

Contact Time
Contact time includes approximately 12-13 hours a week in the first two years and 9-11 hours a week in the final year, incorporating lectures, seminars, practicals and tutorials.

You are also expected to carry out a significant amount of independent study in addition to contact time (approximately 25-30 hours a week). Independent study includes reading around the subject, preparing for tutorials and seminars, preparing for, and completing, module assessments and revision for examinations; forming an essential part of your learning journey.

Career Opportunities
Students graduating from this programme have access to a vast and extensive scope of the Equine Industry from Sales and marketing to Event management. Other areas include finance and retailing as well as entrepreneurship and innovation approaches.

What you will study

Year 1

• Academic, Employment and Professional Skills

• Equine Health and Husbandry

• Fundamentals of Business

• Equine Anatomy and Physiology

• Introduction to Research Skills

• Introduction to Sales and Marketing

• Equine Industry and Event Management

  Option modules: Equitation* or Equine Nutrition (Option modules will run where there are sufficient student numbers, otherwise an alternative option module may be offered. *Ridden elective modules are subject to riding assessments.)

Year 2

• Research Methods and Analysis

• Equine Exercise Physiology

• Financial Management and Planning

• Enterprise and Entrepreneurship

• Equine Law

• Human Resource Management

  Option modules: Equine Behaviour and Welfare or Advanced Equitation* (Option modules will run where there are sufficient student numbers, otherwise an alternative option module may be offered. *Denotes ridden elective modules are subject to riding assessments.)

Year 3

• Dissertation

• Strategic HR and Leadership Management

• Rural Strategic Business Management

• Rural Operations Management

• Rural Marketing Management

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The programme will incorporate a variety of assessment methods across each academic year. The mix of assessments will seek to challenge and evaluate your knowledge, understanding and skills. Assessments for this programme may include written assignments, time constrained assessments, logbooks/portfolios, practical assessments, seminars and presentations, project-based assessments, examinations and a dissertation. Tutors provide support for assessments in class. There will also be opportunity for formative assessment and feedback during the delivery of each module to monitor learning, and to support and prepare you for the summative assessments which make up the module. Feedback on your summative assessments will be given, which will allow you to guide efforts and activities in subsequent modules. Staff aim to return assessed work within a 20 working day timeframe (not including holidays) so that you can most benefit from the feedback.