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Why choose the School of Leadership and Management
A one-year BSc (Hons) Business Management Top-up designed for those with relevant qualifications who are looking for an accelerated route to a degree.
Five pathway options allow you to develop a new or existing subject area specialism.
Regular engagement with industry and authentic assessment opportunities, dealing with real-world problems and issues.
About the course
This one-year top-up course is for those who already have qualifications (Level 4 and 5 or 240 credits) or experience in a relevant field and wish to gain a degree in business management, with the option to follow a pathway with a specific focus. The course delivers an industry-relevant degree that provides a broad understanding of core business management across a variety of organisations, situations and operating conditions.
Pathway options include:
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
- Harvard Business Publishing - learning resources providing advanced business simulations in areas such as sustainability and digital processes
- Our London Stock Exchange Group trading room, reacting to live ‘stock-market’ data
- Software includes Microsoft Power BI and Vensim simulation, for analysing complex and messy business problems, plus VR immersive skills practice
- Access to Sage, Eikon and the econometrics software STATA
Your student experience
Benefit from regular engagement with industry and authentic assessment opportunities, dealing with real-world problems and issues.
Access virtual simulation games that allow you to participate in running a business and experience collaborative working.
Learn from research-driven academics actively involved in consultancy work including with the University’s Innovations Bridges project supporting local SMEs.
Attend regular masterclasses from industry experts, learning from their experience and keeping at the leading edge of your field.
Benefit from field trips to see business management and analytics in action at companies such as John Lewis, Volvo, PW Gates Logistics and Luton Recycling.
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?
- Innovation and Entrepreneurship
- Data Driven Business
- Strategic Leadership
- Business Continuity and the Planet
- Business Project
How will you be assessed?
Assessment takes a variety of forms, including reports, portfolios, individual and collaborative tasks (individually assessed), research proposals, poster presentations, and exams. Many of the assessments tend to be focused on employability and thus tend to be based on live businesses, studies, project work, and other employability-focused activities. Most units include elements of individual and group work to reflect the type of work undertaken in business and management. Assessment focuses on tasks that develop vocational skills, underpinned by subject knowledge, requiring higher levels of cognition in the later years of the course. Assessment becomes more nuanced and more demanding in Level 6 with the expectation that students will be increasingly able to create their own subject-specific knowledge.
Careers
You can find employment in all areas of business including finance, operations or project management, supply chain management, marketing and human resource management (HRM). The course equips you to work for large multinational organisations and for smaller organisations where there are opportunities to work across a number of roles. The course also provides you with the entrepreneurial knowledge and skills you need to start your own business.
You may also like to progress to further study at postgraduate level. The University of Bedfordshire Business School offers a range of related taught Master’s courses including our suite of MBAs and specialist areas of business management such as project management, HRM and sustainable management.
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