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BA (Hons) Business and Management with Integrated Foundation Year

BA (Hons) Business and Management is our most popular undergraduate business degree, giving you a broad foundation in management, marketing, finance, operations, and the world economy. Find out more.

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UCAS codeN101
Duration4 years
Fee (UK)£5,760
LocationOn campus

Course summary

BA (Hons) Business and Management is our most popular undergraduate business degree. The course will give you a broad foundation in management, marketing, finance, operations, and the world economy, allowing you flexibility to focus on the areas that interest you. With an employer embedded within every module, you'll also interact with industry at every step of your journey.

When you graduate, you'll have a thorough understanding of all areas of business and management and will be ready to step into a leadership role in a wide variety of industries worldwide. You'll understand how businesses create success, how to manage business operations, how to make informed decisions, and how to lead change in organisations. Whether it's setting up your own business or working as part of a multinational corporation, this course will equip you with the skills and capabilities to be an effective manager.

Integrated Foundation Year

This course is also available with an Integrated Foundation Year. The Integrated Foundation Year is an extra year before starting your three-year undergraduate degree, designed to build your study skills and subject knowledge so you feel ready to succeed.

If you've narrowly missed the entry requirements for the standard three-year route, or have relevant work experience and want to broaden your subject knowledge and study skills before starting your degree, completing an Integrated Foundation Year could be for you. Please note, this route isn't available to international students.

Our partners, accreditations, and networks

This course is dual accredited by the Chartered Management Institute (CMI) and upon successful completion, you’ll gain an additional qualification in Management and Leadership.

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What you'll study

Many of our courses include a range of modules you can choose from. Some of these options may only be available if you’ve already studied specific required modules. If you’re not sure what you need before picking a module, your course leader can help.

Undergraduate module credits should total 120 credits per academic year. If optional modules are available alongside core modules on your course, you should choose an amount that totals 120 credits.

How you'll learn

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 course provides you with opportunities for creative, reflexive, innovative, and entrepreneurial skills development in live work environments. Examples include live projects, placement opportunities, workplace shadowing, and panel presentations.

Teaching methods focus on doing and reflecting, and include lectures, seminars, tutorials, workshops, and problem-based learning, where you'll work in a small group to explore issues or decide how to manage a situation. This helps you to dissect, challenge, and debate. Other learning techniques include guest speakers and cutting edge e-learning technologies.

Your progress will be assessed with narrative reports, e-portfolios, consultancy projects, negotiated assessments, case studies, reflective statements, audio journals, posters, digital storyboards, blogs, podcasts, and YouTube videos. As well as assessments that count towards your degree, you'll be assessed throughout the course and receive feedback to help improve your work.

Paid placements

We can support you in securing an optional paid work placement to further enhance your employability between your second and final year. It effectively becomes a third year of a four-year course and you’ll earn an average salary of £14,000-£18,000 a year depending on your location.

Placements are an excellent opportunity to put your learning into practice and understand the context for your new knowledge. The contacts made during placements can also be valuable for future job offers.

Entry requirements

Fees and finance support

UK£5,760

Undergraduate fees are set according to rules from Government in line with forecast inflation. The fee for your first year of study for 2026/27 will be £9,535. You'll pay tuition fees for every year of study. Fees may increase every year based on the Retail Price Index.

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If you currently serve (or have recently served) within the Armed Forces, the Ministry of Defence's ELCAS scheme may be able to help cover your funding for this course. Read more about funding for Armed Forces personnel.

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If you're studying at a study centre, please contact the centre directly for information on fees.

If you're a full-time UK/Irish/EU settled/EU pre-settled student on the Integrated Foundation Year route, you may be eligible to receive financial support to cover your fees for the full four years. UK and EU settled students may also be eligible to receive a maintenance loan.

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UK students

Please note, our Integrated Foundation Year courses are not available to international students.

Disclaimer

We want to make sure you have clear and accurate information about our courses. Our website always shows the latest updates. If you’ve applied and been offered a place, we’ll contact you in writing if anything important changes.

View our programme specifications(opens in new tab) for further information about what the course covers, learning outcomes and the skills you'll gain when you graduate.