Business Management and Entrepreneurship
UCAS Code: N293
Bachelor of Arts (with Honours) - BA (Hons)
Entry requirements
A level
120 UCAS Tariff points from three A-levels or equivalent qualifications, excluding General Studies.
Pass your Access course with 60 credits overall with a minimum of 45 credits at level 3.
GCSE/National 4/National 5
GCSE English grade C/4 or equivalent. GCSE Maths grade C/4 or equivalent.
120 UCAS Tariff points from your BTEC Level 3 National Diploma and one A-level or equivalent qualification excluding General Studies.
120 UCAS Tariff points from your BTEC Level National Extended Certificate and two A-levels or equivalent qualifications excluding General Studies.
Pearson BTEC Level 3 National Extended Diploma (first teaching from September 2016)
UCAS Tariff
excluding General Studies
About this course
Are you a budding entrepreneur keen to develop your enterprising skills? This sandwich course equips you with the knowledge and skills to do so. You'll not only gain a broad understanding of business theory, but be able to put it into practice with a valuable placement year. This time spent working in business provides you with crucial work experience, which is highly prized and much sought after by employers upon graduation.
Whether you want to end up working for a successful business or running your own, this degree will give you the knowledge and skills you need.You’ll gain an understanding of the theories and practices of entrepreneurship and innovation in a variety of contexts. You’ll explore the nature of entrepreneurship across new business ventures and small businesses to not-for-profit organisations and large established corporations.
All students can access The Hive, our purpose built centre for entrepreneurship. This facility helps students turn their business ideas into a reality, with experience, expertise and great contacts. They’ve helped to bring over 400 business ideas to life.
Our Business Management Joint Honours courses are all built on a common first year of study, which means you have the option to transfer to a different Joint Honours course after the first year.
Our BA (Hons) Business Management Joint Honours courses have Dual Award status with the Chartered Management Institute. Nottingham Business School at NTU is accredited by EQUIS and AACSB, which are internationally recognised hallmarks of excellence and quality for business education. It is also listed amongst the Top 100 European Business Schools by the Financial Times.
Modules
Year One: Six core modules.
Year Two: Three core modules, plus two specialist modules and one optional module. Full-time students have the option to replace the specialist and optional modules with a unique half-year opportunity, which include studying abroad, setting up an enterprise, and an industry internship.
Year Three: Placement year for students on the four-year course.
Final Year: Five core modules plus one optional module.
Throughout the course you will study a wide range of modules covering all areas of Business Management, as well as modules more specific to Entrepreneurship, including Enterprise in Practice, Managing Creativity, Design and Innovation, Competitive Strategy and Innovation, Dynamic Entrepreneurship and Contemporary Issues in Strategy and Entrepreneurship.
The Uni
City Campus
Nottingham Business School
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Business studies
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After graduation
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Top job areas of graduates
The number of business studies graduates fell significantly last year after a long period of increase. But there were still more than 14,000 degrees awarded and this is the third most popular subject for new graduates. Because so many graduates get business studies degrees, you can find them everywhere in the economy, and very few jobs are completely out of reach for a good business studies graduate. Around 40% go into jobs in finance, sales, recruitment, management (particularly retail) or marketing. There is also a small (but well paid) group who take their technical skills into computing and IT. Thousands of graduates from this subject go into professional jobs every year, and average starting salaries are above the average for all subjects and particularly healthy in London where they top £25k. Graduates with good degree grades in business studies are much more likely to get good jobs, so don’t be complacent, and keep a close eye on your grades.
What about your long term prospects?
Looking further ahead, below is a rough guide for what graduates went on to earn.
Business and management
The graph shows median earnings of graduates who achieved a degree in this subject area one, three and five years after graduating from here.
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£31k
Note: this data only looks at employees (and not those who are self-employed or also studying) and covers a broad sample of graduates and the various paths they've taken, which might not always be a direct result of their degree.
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