Business Management

Develop your business and management knowledge and skills through a broad range of topics on a degree course that champions creativity and innovation.

• Tailor your learning to meet your needs: Core modules focus on creativity and innovation in business, while varied optional modules give choice and flexibility.

• Learn through doing. You'll gain practical and valuable experience from real-world, industry-aligned assessments and placement opportunities.

• Different learners have a chance to shine through a range of assessment types that reflect the contemporary workplace.

Our BA (Hons) Business Management programme gives you a broad foundation in how modern organisations work, helping you develop the confidence, creativity, and strategic thinking employers value.

You’ll explore real business challenges, analyse fast‑changing global environments, and learn how to generate innovative, practical solutions. Creativity runs throughout the course, with authentic assessments that help you develop a range of valuable skills and provide you with the opportunity to produce academic and professional outputs.

As a Business Management student, you'll explore ethical, sustainable, and inclusive business practice, developing the values needed to lead responsibly and make a positive impact in your professional future.

With employability at its core, the programme includes consultancy‑based projects and opportunities to work with industry partners, as well as a number of different placement opportunities. By the time you graduate, you’ll be a reflective, adaptable, and globally aware professional ready to thrive in a wide range of roles—or even start your own venture.

Course Modules

Year one

In your first year, you'll gain an understanding of organisations and how they interact with society and the wider economy. You'll develop skills in finance and data analysis, which will be essential throughout your studies, but also in the workplace.

You'll be challenged to consider your personal and professional development, setting objectives and you'll learn to adopt a reflective approach.

Year two

In your second year, you'll develop your creative thinking skills and learn how to implement innovative ideas in the workplace through effective project management. You'll explore business functions such as human resource management and marketing, with the opportunity to select optional modules that match your interests.

In addition, you'll have a chance to complete a placement or start preparing for a Professional Placement Year.

Year three

In your final year, you'll build on your existing business and management knowledge, delving into the challenges and opportunities that organisations and leaders face today. With a focus on ethical, sustainable and responsible management, you'll engage with complex questions and issues, developing your critical thinking abilities and learning more about your professional interests and ambitions.

You'll have the opportunity to specialise in your passion by choosing between a research or industry project that focuses on a topic of your interest. At this stage, you’ll be able to confidently demonstrate the knowledge, skills and abilities you’ve gained during all three years of the course, building your portfolio of experiences and outputs.

The Professional Placement Year

A Professional Placement Year (PPY), traditionally known as a sandwich year, is where you undertake a period of work with an external organisation for between 9-13 months. The placement occurs between your second and final years of undergraduate study. You can engage in multiple placements to make up the total time and are required to source the placement(s) yourself, with support from the Careers team.