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Course Code: N2B1
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Why choose the School of Leadership and Management
Over 95% of our full-time UK business and management graduates are in employment or further study, 15 months after graduating (source: HESA Graduate Outcomes for 2020/21, pub 2023).
Get involved in consultancy projects: over 1,000 Business School students worked on live knowledge-exchange projects 2022/23 (KEF, 2023).
Our student-led Marketing Club is run in association with the Chartered Institute of Marketing (CIM).
About the course
This course equips you with the knowledge, skills and professional competency to work confidently as a manager in a digitally dependent business environment. It builds your understanding and practical skills in general business management subjects such as strategy, policy design, innovation and entrepreneurship while exploring the business practices reshaping current business models. You also develop a specialism through our five pathway options:
Business Analytics
Finance
Human Resource
International Business
Law
Facilities and specialist equipment
- New, state-of-the-art business analytics suite to support data analytics, 'big-data', data mining, digital marketing, SEO and other management skills
- Our Reuters trading room, reacting to live ‘stock-market’ data Semrush software so you can practise your digital marketing skills for campaign management
- Other software includes Microsoft Power BI and Vensim simulation, for analysing complex and messy business problems, plus VR immersive skills practice
- Access databases such as Harvard Business Publishing and the Institute of Data and Marketing (IDM) Access to Sage, Refinitiv Workspace and the econometrics software STATA Gain competencies in key digital skills such as Excel through SIMnet, our Microsoft Office training platform
Your student experience
Gain a sought-after specialism on a course that gives you the flexibility to change pathway option at the end of your first year.
Learn from research-driven academics actively involved in consultancy work. Take up opportunities for consultancy experience during the second year of the degree, assisting businesses – from start-ups to established corporations - to solve problems, up-skill and innovate. Access virtual business-management simulation software that allows you to participate in running a business and experience collaborative working.
Benefit from marketing visits from industry experts. Recent marketing visitors include senior staff from Bute Street Festival; IBM Global Markets; Luton Town Football Club; Andrews UK; RetroGames; West Wing Studios; and Wonderbly.
Our student-led, CIM-affiliated Marketing Club organises field trips, events and workshops across a wide range of marketing areas; recent workshops include Neuromarketing; AI in Marketing; and Influencer Marketing.
Gain professional insights with field trips to see business management and marketing in action at a broad range of companies including digital marketing agencies and museums such as the Museum of Brands.
with Professional Practice Year
This course has the option to be taken over four years which includes a year placement in industry. Undertaking a year in industry has many benefits. You gain practical experience and build your CV, as well as being a great opportunity to sample a profession and network with potential future employers.
There is no tuition fee for the placement year enabling you to gain an extra year of experience for free.
*Only available to UK/EU students.
with Foundation Year
A Degree with a Foundation Year gives you guaranteed entry to an Undergraduate course.
Whether you’re returning to learning and require additional help and support to up-skill, or if you didn’t quite meet the grades to pursue an Undergraduate course, our Degrees with Foundation Year provide a fantastic entry route for you to work towards a degree level qualification.
With our guidance and support you’ll get up to speed within one year, and will be ready to seamlessly progress on to undergraduate study at Bedfordshire.
The Foundation Year provides an opportunity to build up your academic writing skills and numeracy, and will also cover a range of subject specific content to fully prepare you for entry to an Undergraduate degree.
This is an integrated four-year degree, with the foundation year as a key part of the course. You will need to successfully complete the Foundation Year to progress on to the first year of your bachelor’s degree.
Why study a degree with a Foundation Year?
- Broad-based yet enough depth to give you credible vocational skills
- Coverage of a variety of areas typically delivered by an expert in this area
- Gain an understanding of a subject before choosing which route you wish to specialise in
- Great introduction to further study, and guaranteed progression on to one of our Undergraduate degrees
The degrees offering a Foundation Year provide excellent preparation for your future studies.
During your Foundation Year you will get the opportunity to talk to tutors about your degree study and future career aspirations, and receive guidance on the most appropriate Undergraduate course to help you achieve this; providing you meet the entry requirements and pass the Foundation Year.
What will you study?
Studying our Business Management with Business Analytics BSc (Hons) course will equip you with in-depth skills and knowledge in the combined areas of business management and digital and data analysis. In introductory areas of study, our Evolution and Revolution of Business unit will allow you to explore how businesses operate, develop, progress and impact society. Building on your analytical skills, our Business Analytics unit will equip you with advanced data analytical strategies used to solve business tasks. To help with this, our unit in Applied Numeracy for Business will give you the confidence to develop the mathematical and numerical skills used for decision making and problem solving for businesses. Another crucial skill in the business world is risk management – and this is where our Risk and Responsibility unit will develop your understanding of business challenges, responsible management and business ethics in a global context.
In other areas of study, you will tackle environmental issues in our Business Continuity and the Planet unit that will allow you to investigate the strategic risks and challenges posed towards business operations including climate change, cybersecurity and supply chain risks. To diversify your learning, you will also be provided with a range of skills for leadership, entrepreneurship, marketing, management analysis, strategy setting and finance in our Management in Practice unit. Among other key business elements, you will explore trends and challenges in technology in our Smart Business unit while considering how this can be applied to varying areas of business. When working in business, it is also important that you build on your employability skills and is where our Managing Business Complexity unit will support your development in areas of teamwork, communication and time management while exposing you to real-life, complex business issues and how to create viable solutions for clients based on this.
It is also important that you are adaptable to change in business environments, and this is where our Strategic Business Planning unit will allow you to understand how business growth and productivity is affected by change as well as how strategic planning can be used to maximise company growth. In more technical areas, you will also work with statistical data in our Data Analysis for Finance and Economics unit where you will learn to interpret and apply various statistical techniques and use software to collect, summarise and process data. To add to this, you will explore a range of visualisation methods and concepts in our Data Visualisation unit while examining Data Optimisation techniques in the context of business decision making. Finally, you will conduct a thorough piece of academic research and/or a practical project in our Business Project unit that will allow you to gain a deeper understanding of the practical use of data in business and how this shapes critical business decisions.
To prepare you for your career, our Employability and the Future Workplace unit will support you in developing the skills needed to prepare for interviews, psychometric tests and assessment centres. Additionally, our unit in Beginning your Professional Business Journey will help to ease your transition into the workplace and provide an insight into professional business environments.
How will you be assessed?
Assessment information for this course will be made available soon. Please check back for updates.
Careers
The course opens opportunities for you to become a general business manager or operations/project manager. You can also develop your career in your specialist area moving into human resources; digital and e-business; financial analysis; international operations; and business analytics.
You may like to progress to a related taught Master’s courses such as our Business Administration (MBA) MSc Project Management and MSc Sustainable Management. We also offer research degree opportunities.
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Fees for this course
UK
The full-time standard undergraduate tuition fee for the Academic Year 2025/26 is £9,250 per year. You can apply for a loan from the Government to help pay for your tuition fees. You can also apply for a maintenance loan from the Government to help cover your living costs. See www.gov.uk/student-finance
Excellence Scholarships
Worth £2,500 per year of study over three years when you score a defined number of UCAS tariff points from specified qualifications*
» If you don’t qualify for an Excellence Scholarship but have 120 UCAS tariff points, you have enough points for one of our Achievement Scholarships offering £500 per year of study**
» Other scholarships, bursaries and financial support packages are available
* Points requirements vary depending on type of qualification.
** Threshold is 120 UCAS tariff points across all awarding bodies and qualifications.
International
The full-time standard undergraduate tuition fee for the academic year 2025/26 is £16,900 per year.
There are range of Scholarships available to help support you through your studies with us.
A full list of scholarships can be found here.
Fees for this course
UK
The full-time standard undergraduate tuition fee for the Academic Year 2025/26 is £9,250 per year. You can apply for a loan from the Government to help pay for your tuition fees. You can also apply for a maintenance loan from the Government to help cover your living costs. See www.gov.uk/student-finance
Excellence Scholarships
Worth £2,500 per year of study over three years when you score a defined number of UCAS tariff points from specified qualifications*
» If you don’t qualify for an Excellence Scholarship but have 120 UCAS tariff points, you have enough points for one of our Achievement Scholarships offering £500 per year of study**
» Other scholarships, bursaries and financial support packages are available
* Points requirements vary depending on type of qualification.
** Threshold is 120 UCAS tariff points across all awarding bodies and qualifications.
International
The full-time standard undergraduate tuition fee for the academic year 2025/26 is £16,900 per year.
There are range of Scholarships available to help support you through your studies with us.
A full list of scholarships can be found here.
Fees for this course
UK
The full-time standard undergraduate tuition fee for the Academic Year 2025/26 is £9,250 per year. You can apply for a loan from the Government to help pay for your tuition fees. You can also apply for a maintenance loan from the Government to help cover your living costs. See www.gov.uk/student-finance
Excellence Scholarships
Worth £2,500 per year of study over three years when you score a defined number of UCAS tariff points from specified qualifications*
» If you don’t qualify for an Excellence Scholarship but have 120 UCAS tariff points, you have enough points for one of our Achievement Scholarships offering £500 per year of study**
» Other scholarships, bursaries and financial support packages are available
* Points requirements vary depending on type of qualification.
** Threshold is 120 UCAS tariff points across all awarding bodies and qualifications.
International
The full-time standard undergraduate tuition fee for the academic year 2025/26 is £16,900 per year.
There are range of Scholarships available to help support you through your studies with us.
A full list of scholarships can be found here.
Fees for this course
UK
The full-time standard undergraduate tuition fee for the Academic Year 2025/26 is £9,250 per year. You can apply for a loan from the Government to help pay for your tuition fees. You can also apply for a maintenance loan from the Government to help cover your living costs. See www.gov.uk/student-finance
Excellence Scholarships
Worth £2,500 per year of study over three years when you score a defined number of UCAS tariff points from specified qualifications*
» If you don’t qualify for an Excellence Scholarship but have 120 UCAS tariff points, you have enough points for one of our Achievement Scholarships offering £500 per year of study**
» Other scholarships, bursaries and financial support packages are available
* Points requirements vary depending on type of qualification.
** Threshold is 120 UCAS tariff points across all awarding bodies and qualifications.
International
The full-time standard undergraduate tuition fee for the academic year 2025/26 is £16,900 per year.
There are range of Scholarships available to help support you through your studies with us.
A full list of scholarships can be found here.
Fees for this course
UK
The full-time standard undergraduate tuition fee for the Academic Year 2025/26 is £9,250 per year. You can apply for a loan from the Government to help pay for your tuition fees. You can also apply for a maintenance loan from the Government to help cover your living costs. See www.gov.uk/student-finance
Excellence Scholarships
Worth £2,500 per year of study over three years when you score a defined number of UCAS tariff points from specified qualifications*
» If you don’t qualify for an Excellence Scholarship but have 120 UCAS tariff points, you have enough points for one of our Achievement Scholarships offering £500 per year of study**
» Other scholarships, bursaries and financial support packages are available
* Points requirements vary depending on type of qualification.
** Threshold is 120 UCAS tariff points across all awarding bodies and qualifications.
International
The full-time standard undergraduate tuition fee for the academic year 2025/26 is £16,900 per year.
There are range of Scholarships available to help support you through your studies with us.
A full list of scholarships can be found here.
Fees for this course
UK
The full-time standard undergraduate tuition fee for the Academic Year 2025/26 is £9,250 per year. You can apply for a loan from the Government to help pay for your tuition fees. You can also apply for a maintenance loan from the Government to help cover your living costs. See www.gov.uk/student-finance
Excellence Scholarships
Worth £2,500 per year of study over three years when you score a defined number of UCAS tariff points from specified qualifications*
» If you don’t qualify for an Excellence Scholarship but have 120 UCAS tariff points, you have enough points for one of our Achievement Scholarships offering £500 per year of study**
» Other scholarships, bursaries and financial support packages are available
* Points requirements vary depending on type of qualification.
** Threshold is 120 UCAS tariff points across all awarding bodies and qualifications.
International
The full-time standard undergraduate tuition fee for the academic year 2025/26 is £16,900 per year.
There are range of Scholarships available to help support you through your studies with us.
A full list of scholarships can be found here.
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