Business Management and Entrepreneurship (including Foundation)

UCAS code: N213

Here's what Kingston University says about its Business Management and Entrepreneurship (including Foundation) course.

Reasons to choose Kingston

• In just three years, you’ll graduate with a business degree and the real-life practical experience and skills that employers are looking for.

• This course is designed and developed in collaboration with industry experts across different areas of the business world to ensure content reflects latest trends, challenges and practices.

• Kingston Business School has been recognized for quality by the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB). This award is earned by just five percent of the world’s business schools.

• Graduate employability is embedded in module activities and extracurricular events such as networking with industry professionals, hackathons and speed interviewing.

• The School provides training and support for small businesses across the country, linking you into a wide network of people who can support you.

• Our commitment to high quality teaching has been recognised with a Teaching Excellence Framework (TEF) Gold rating. The University has received an overall rating of Gold, as well as securing a Gold award in the framework's two new student experience and student outcomes categories.

About this course Do you have your own business or aspire to start your own? Do you see yourself working as an entrepreneur? If so, this course is ideal for you.

You’ll gain knowledge of business strategy, project management, start-up creation and growth design thinking, and finance and accounting. You’ll also learn to design and implement innovative management, technological change, develop entrepreneurship skills, and gain first-hand experience in managing and leading entrepreneurial teams.

With full support from the University, the course enables you to start a business. We’re proudly ranked one of the top two UK higher education institutions for graduate start-ups for the past 10 years (HESA 2020/21).

This course is offered with a Foundation Year in Business. The foundation year takes place the year before your degree. You will study at Kingston College and cover topics including professional skills, numerical concepts, business IT, marketing, customer care, and business law. Upon successful completion of this foundation year, you will progress to Year 1 of this degree.

Future Skills Embedded within every course curriculum and throughout the whole Kingston experience, Future Skills will play a role in shaping you to become a future-proof graduate, providing you with the skills most valued by employers such as problem-solving, digital competency, and adaptability.

As you progress through your degree, you'll learn to navigate, explore and apply these graduate skills, learning to demonstrate and articulate to employers how future skills give you the edge.

At Kingston University, we're not just keeping up with change, we're creating it.

Career opportunities You’ll graduate with key skills, ready to create a business or work within one and build its market success. These crucial skills are also key for intrapreneurs inside larger organisations.

Example modules

• Unlocking Business Value
• Build My Business
• Entrepreneurship and Design Thinking

To view the full list of modules, please visit the University course webpage.

Assessment typically comprises exams (e.g. tests or exams), practical (e.g. presentations, performance), and coursework (e.g. essays, reports, self-assessments, portfolios, dissertation).