Business BSc (Hons)

Why Business? Do you aspire to become a manager and leader? This course is ideal if you enjoy rising to the challenge and finding creative solutions to problems, thinking on your feet and want to work in a fast-paced environment. It is designed to give you the opportunity to develop the key business management, leadership and decision making skills needed for today's dynamic business environment. This is a brand new course and is designed for those of you that are interested in developing practical skills to harness information to generate business and social values in the new digital era. Good basic quantitative skills would be desirable for this course, although these are not essential as they can be developed in the common first year. In the second and final years, there are data and analytics modules where the emphasis is on applications and the use of techniques in business. This course will prepare you for the wider global world of business. You may even end up working outside the UK for a multinational corporation or international agency. How will you learn? You will learn through practical application and delivered lectures, workshops, seminars and group work sessions. * You have the opportunity to gain practical skills in a dynamic business environment. * We’ll give you the opportunity to take a placement year, working in a business, either here in the UK or abroad. * We work closely with the Chartered Management Institute (CMI) and you’ll have the opportunity to achieve a CMI qualification in Management and Leadership through no additional study or assessment. * Our HR professionals could also help you create a CV or portfolio, to help enhance your prospects in the employment market.Previous students from our Business courses have gained experience with businesses such as Hewlett Packard, Lloyds Banking Group, ASDA, Coop Group, Cummins, L’Oreal, Virgin Media and Agricultural Bank of China. What subjects will you cover? To give you the chance to build a better understanding of business , the course covers key business topics. You can choose to build a range of specialist skills including personal development, real world business issues, global management in context, digital and social media marketing. The BSc Business course is designed to give you the practical skills to analyse, visualise and interpret business intelligence and data to support decision making and add value to your business. Due to the wide range of subjects studied on the course you will have lots of different career opportunities upon graduation, such as e-commerce and social media analysts, sales executives, account managers, project managers, banking executives, human resource professionals, to name just a few. Our degrees will help you shape your own future. ~ Dr Jiajia Liu, Senior Lecturer in Business and Management Professional links and accreditation: You can register with the Chartered Management Institute (http://www.managers.org.uk/) providing a further qualification and enhancing your CV through membership of a professional body. We work closely with the Chartered Management Institute (CMI) and you’ll have the opportunity to achieve a CMI qualification in Management and Leadership through no additional study or assessment. This accreditation is reviewed on a regular basis.