Business Studies BA (Hons)

Course overview

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BA (Hons) Business Studies is our longest running course. Business is a broad and fascinating subject with many different areas to specialise in which lead the way to fantastic graduate employment opportunities.

Specialist pathways

As well as taking core business units, this BA (Hons) Business Studies degree features specialist pathways, each one concentrating on a particular aspect of business:

• Economics
• Enterprise
• Finance
• Human Resource Management
• International Business
• Law
• Marketing
• Operations and Project Management

Flexibility

Our Business Studies course is unique in giving you the flexibility to keep your specialisation options open until your second year of study. This offers you the best of both worlds: broad-based first and second years and a specialised final year.

If you wish to combine work and study, we also offer a BA (Hons) International Business & Management degree that's delivered part-time, either online or with a combination of online study with some campus attendance.

Employability

Whichever pathway of Business Studies you choose, at the end of your degree you will have gained qualities enabling you to manage a range of business activities in a global context. Employability and career prospects are at the heart of our Business courses.

Placement opportunities

As part of your Business Studies degree, you will spend 40 weeks working within industry, putting the theory from your first two years on the course into practice.

Our extensive network of contacts means that you will have the opportunity to gain this experience working at some of the world’s most innovative and influential businesses, including Xerox, Barclays, British Airways, Hewlett-Packard, Vauxhall Motors, IBM, Wella and Nokia to name a few. Our students perform extremely well during their paid placements; employers are always impressed with their abilities and many of our students return to their placement company upon graduation.

Study Abroad Programme

This is a unique opportunity for overseas students to study for one semester or a full academic year on our BA (Hons) Business Studies course. This will enable you to:

• Study on the 2nd year of the BA (Hons) Business Studies degree course
• Develop your interpersonal and employability skills
• Study with students from all over the world
• Opportunities to develop your English language skills if English is not your first language
• Opportunities to develop your language skills in Spanish, French and German
• Gain credits to contribute towards your degree at your home university

Find out more about our Study Abroad Programme.

Course focus

We consider the placement year, along with employability prospects and innovative learning methods, as the key features of our Business School. We aim to develop your personal and professional effectiveness, helping you enter the commercial world to achieve great things.