If your first language is not English, you will need an IELTS of 6.0 overall, with 5.5 in each component.
Are you ready to unlock your potential to create, innovate and bring business ideas to life? This exciting degree is designed to equip you with the skills, knowledge, ability and commercial insight to take concepts from inception to implementation, turning ideas into new products or services in today’s fast-paced world of business.
What better way to develop your entrepreneurial skills than to learn from the people who’ve done it successfully – from the likes of Dragons Den’s Levi Roots or Founder/Chairman of State of Flux Alan Day, to name just two of our key supporters. They and others regularly contribute to the programme through guest lectures or real projects, which have previously included creating a business concept using market intelligence from Mintel and devising a strategy to expand the customer base software for State of Flux, a global procurement and supply chain consultancy.
You’ll be taught by staff who have established or run their own businesses, and bring professional experience in marketing, IT, retail, project management, talent development, leadership and management. They have worked in various roles for Cable and Wireless, Coca-Cola, Capital Be, the NHS, Pendragon (subsidiary of Jaguar Cars), Visa International and IBM, to name just a few.
Course content is designed to provide you with an understanding of the theories and practices of entrepreneurship; the factors that influence success or failure from the role of the market to creativity, innovation and knowledge.
In addition, you’ll gain a broad-based understanding of business management and essential knowledge of accounting, risk management, data analysis, marketing, HR, supply chain and business ethics. This will prepare you to take the lead on product and business development either in your own business or for existing small, medium or large employers all over the world.
Our graduates have gone on to work as transformation analysts, business growth strategists and managing directors, while others are responsible for establishing a range of highly successful businesses, including Serena Sartorial, which provides bespoke Italian fashion. Some, like Andreas Tassitro for example, have gone on to become serial entrepreneurs. Founder and the first President of the University’s Entrepreneurial Society, Andreas started the Green Van Company in Switzerland whilst studying and is now Founder and CEO at Foodetective.
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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
New Venture Creation
You can also choose two options from: Entrepreneurial Practice, Project Management, 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.
Credit Level 5
Placement year
Optional work placement/study abroad year
Between Year 2 and Year 3, you can take an optional work placement or study abroad year. The work placement year is a one-year full-time business work placement.
Past students have completed placements in a variety of SMEs and prestigious organisations, including Barclays Bank, British Airways, Disney UK, IBM and the NHS.
The study abroad years allows you to follow a programme of study at one of our partner institutions, giving you the opportunity to experiment 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
Commercialising your Enterprise
Current themes in Entrepreneurship
You can also choose two options from: Creating Entrepreneurial Leadership, Social Media for Business, or other areas of business. You have the opportunity of studying one module from across the University, including a foreign language.
Credit Level 6
Job roles
This course will prepare you for roles such as:
Business adviser
Business development executive
Entrepreneur
Management consultant
Managing director
Project manager
Graduate employers
Graduates from this course have found employment at organisations including:
BT
Crowd Velocity Ltd
DGL Group
DJL Fitness
EE
Exposed Media
Foodetective
Green Van Company
Outline Management
Paris Kyri Gowns
Sixteenth
Veano
Yull Shoes UK
Insurance – Single: 300 GBP per year
