If your first language is not English, you will need an IELTS of 6.0 overall, with 5.5 in each component.
Whether caused by politics, environmental issues or world health crises, the global economy is ever changing and of growing concern to businesses. Monitoring and predicting the impact of economics on business is now a top priority, raising the demand for graduates who understand how markets work and how local and international issues can affect competition and performance.
Combining the study of economics with general business management, this degree is designed to equip you with the skills and knowledge to analyse individual company and industry performance within the context of global economics. Using live and historical data in our state-of-the-art Financial Markets Suite (FMS), you’ll apply economic theory and practice to real-world businesses, learning how to plan, evaluate economic trends and become better placed to help firms make effective business decisions.
To help you support future business and management decisions, we’ll examine how and why businesses emerge, exist and expand – studying their global environment, relationship and interactions with employees, providers of capital, customers, competitors, government and other regulatory bodies. You’ll gain a deeper understanding of the economic, qualitative and quantitative techniques and ideas used to analyse and solve business problems in a global marketplace.
Taught by academics with substantial business experience across the range of business disciplines, through consultancy or knowledge exchange, there is an emphasis on learning through practice, so you graduate with the breadth of knowledge and capabilities to respond proactively and creatively to contemporary business issues and challenges. Throughout the course, you’ll also develop a range of transferrable skills highly prized by employers, such as critical evaluation, self-direction and problem-solving, as well as a sound grasp of analysis, presentations and negotiation techniques.
You’ll be capable of holding positions of significant responsibility and authority in public companies, private businesses and government agencies. Past Business Management graduates have found successful employment as management, marketing and advertising trainees, as trainee accountants and brand managers, recruitment consultants, retail managers and as assistants in market research, PR and global branding.
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Year 1
Subjects of study include:
Accounting and Finance Fundamentals
Analysing and Managing Information
Global Business Environment
Marketing Principles
People and Organisations
You will also have the opportunity to take an option module that broadens your skills or helps you gain more in-depth knowledge of your specialist area. Your option module may be a foreign language.
Credit Level 4
Year 2
Subjects of study include:
Operations and Digital Business
Managing People
Business Decision Making
Essential Economics
Credit Level 5
You can also choose two options from: Money, Banking and Financial Markets, Global Economic Ideas, Information and Digital Economics, or other areas of business. You will also have the opportunity to study a module from other parts of the University, including a foreign language.
Placement year
Between Years 2 and 3, you can take an optional work placement or study year abroad. The work placement year is a one-year full-time business work placement.
Past students have completed placements in a variety of small to medium size enterprises (SMEs) and prestigious organisations, including Barclays Bank, British Airways, Disney UK, IBM and the NHS.
The study abroad year allows you to follow a programme of study at one of our partner institutions, giving you the opportunity to experience life in another country and learn Business from a different cultural viewpoint.
You can also choose to split your year abroad into a first semester exchange and a second semester work placement, both conducted overseas.
Year 3
Subjects of study include:
Global Strategic Management
Sustainable Business
Applications of Economics
Current themes in Economics
You can also choose two options from: Developmental Economics, International Economics and Forecasting for Managers or other areas of business. You have the opportunity to study one module from across the University, including a foreign language.
Credit Level 6
Job roles
This course will prepare you for roles such as:
Account manager
Accounts assistant
Analyst or researcher
Business development executive
Business development manager
Management consultant
Insurance – Single: 300 GBP per year
