BA (Hons) Business and Management

The BA (Hons) Business and Management course gets you ready for a career in business while giving you the flexibility to focus your studies on an area that interests you. With an employer embedded within every module, you’ll interact with industry at every step of your journey.

You’ll learn the fundamentals of business, management, and leadership through the context of digital and sustainable business practices. Whether it’s setting up your own business or working as part of a multi-national corporation, the BA (Hons) Business and Management course will equip you with the skills and capabilities to be an effective manager whatever the organisation.

Our management courses share a common first year, which enables you to focus on your chosen specialism of Management, HRM, Finance or Marketing. Course content has been carefully designed with students and employers to enhance your employability. Cutting-edge topics are covered such as issues around sustainability in business and digital aspects of business in the 21st century workplace. Our Business and Management courses are 6th in the UK for student satisfaction (Complete University Guide 2025) 85% of students surveyed said our university’s mental wellbeing support services were well communicated. (National Student Survey 2024) 90% of students surveyed said they felt free to express their ideas, opinions and beliefs (National Student Survey 2024).

With an innovative mix of experiential learning and knowledge development in terms of the role, function, and influence of managers and leaders in a changing business world, the BA (Hons) Business and Management course provides you with opportunities for creative, reflexive, innovative, and entrepreneurial skills development in live work environments. Examples of experiential learning methods include live projects, placement opportunities, workplace shadowing, and panel presentations. The course features innovative teaching methods and learning by doing and reflecting.

This includes problem-based learning, where you’ll work within a small team to explore issues or decide how to manage a situation. This helps you to dissect, challenge, and debate issues. Other learning techniques include guest speakers, and cutting-edge e-learning technologies. These are in addition to a combination of lectures, seminars, debates, tutorials, and workshops. Assessment methods include narrative reports, e-portfolios, consultancy projects, negotiated assessments, case studies, reflective statements, audio journals, posters, digital storyboards, blogs, podcasts, and YouTube videos.