Business and Management BSc - Undergraduate degrees

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Aston University

United Kingdom , Birmingham

Key Facts

Program Level

Bachelor

Study Type

Full Time

Delivery

On Campus

Campuses

Main Site

Program Language

English

Start & Deadlines

Next Intake DeadlinesSeptember-2022

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Duration 4 year(s)

Tuition Fee

GBP 16,300 / year

Next Intake September-2022

Business and Management BSc - Undergraduate degrees

About

Develop a breadth of business knowledge including the functions of management and scienceof decision-making. Whether you want a career at the forefront of a global operation, start-up or not-for-profit organisation, this degree could be for you.

Location: Aston University, Birmingham

Astons Business and Management BSc is one of the best in the world*. It will provide you with an understanding of the various functions of management, alongside the opportunity to specialise in areas of business that interest you, preparing you for a successful management career.

*Top 100 for Business and Management Studies, QS World University Rankings 2021.

What youll learn

You will gain a solid foundation in your first year across a breadth of business topics before shaping your second and final years to concentrate your study on particular specialisms. You can gain professional accreditations and exemptions in many of these career paths and youll also undertake a placement year to put your learning into practice.

This course will make you career ready

This means, not only will you graduate with a great depth of knowledge in both management and your specialist area of interest, you will also be equipped with independent, work-ready, commercial skills and relevant work experience.

You have over 70modules to choose from, allowing you to specialise your degree to suit your interests. Thats why our graduates go on to work in a breadth of roles, from product manager to accounting specialist, in organisations ranging from Google to Santander.

This programme may also lead to accreditation or exemptions from specific professional bodies, based upon certain specialist modules being taken.

Two undergraduate degrees

This course offers an Exchange Partnership Second Degree Pathway, meaning you could study overseas at one of our partner institutions during your placement year and graduate with two undergraduate degrees for the price of one. Find out more about our Exchange Partnership Second Degree Pathway here.

International students

Aston University is a diverse, close community and welcomes international students. Students from over 120 different countries choose to study with us every year. Based in the centre of Birmingham, Aston is not only a great place to study, its also a great place to live.

Astons professional work placements can improve your chance of securing a graduate job. Placements give you experience, confidence and opportunities and as an Aston student, youll be better prepared for your future career.

For International Students intending to do a foundation year, visit ONCAMPUS.

Foundation programme

Before you start your undergraduate degree, you may choose to study our foundation programme in business. This foundation course will help you develop specialist knowledge and fully prepare you for your chosen undergraduate course. During your foundation year, youll have excellent support from academics, and group projects will give you the chance to meet new people, make new friends and build a network of peers who will share your university journey.

We also have a Learning Development Centre that can provide additional support and offers pre-sessional English language programmes.

Post-study work visa

Aston University welcomes the creation of a new immigration route that will enable international students to remain in the UK for two years to find work after they have completed their studies. The new post-study work visa will apply to international students starting undergraduate and postgraduate courses from 2020 at universities with a track record of compliance with immigration policy. Find out more about post-study work visas.

Modules

Year 1
Year 2
Year 3
Final Year

In your firstyear, you will study a wide range ofmanagement related subjects, designed to ensure you have a broad foundation and knowledge of management. You will consider the economic, financial, human and legal issues managers deal with, and learn the tools and techniques they use to resolve them.

Introductory Accounting for Business
Introduction to Organisational Behaviour
Law for Business
Introduction to Marketing Management
Principles of Operations Management
Foundations of Business Analytics
Information Technology for Business
Introduction to Business Economics

In your secondyearyou will select elective modules from the list below. In addition to thisyou will study the following core modules:

Virtual Business Manager
Business, Government and Society
Fundamentals of Strategy

Choose one ofthe following financemodules:

Strategic Finance
Corporate Financial Management

You can then select your remaining credits from the following specialist areas (selecting no more than 45 credits in any one area):

Accounting:

Financial and Management Accounting for Managers
Business Tax
Audit, Governance and Company Law

International Business:

International Businesses and Emerging Market Economies
International Business Economics

Business Analytics

Business Analytics in Practice
Optimisation and Decision Analytics
Data Visualisation
Software for Analytics

Business Psychology:

Employee Resourcing
Psychology and Work
Effective Teamwork
Developing Creativity

Business Economics:

Intermediate Microeconomics
Intermediate Macroeconomics
Quantitative Methods
Markets, Games and Strategy
Sports Economics & Finance

Information Systems:

Dashboards and Spreadsheets
Systems Analysis
Database applications
Doing E-Business

Law:

Principles of Commercial Law
Principles of EmploymentLaw
Principles of Intellectual PropertyLaw

Marketing

Market Research
Services Marketing
Digital Marketing
Marketing Communications

Operations Management:

Business Operations Excellence
Enterprise Systems
Managing Service Operations

*Availability of any optional modules will be subject to staff availability and a minimum number of students who express an interest in studying the optional modules.

You will spend this year in a professional placement or you may choose to take up an international study opportunity at one of our partner institutions. This year is compulsory for all UK students.

See the placement year section or find out more about theAston placement year.

In your final year you will study a range of modulesalong with elective modules from specialist areas:

Students must choose at least one of the following modules:

Effective Management Consultancy 1
Effective Management Consultancy 2
Knowledge at Work
Implementing Business Decisions

Students must then choose at least one of the following modules:

Strategic Management
Strategic HRM
Theories and Practice of Leadership
Marketing Strategy
Operations Strategy

Choose the remaining 30 to 90 credits from the following modules selecting no more than 45 credits in any one area:

Accounting:

Tax Policy and Personal Tax
Risk Management

Finance:

Financial Analysis
Derivatives

Business Analytics:

Simulation
Performance and Efficiency Analytics (DEA)
Business Analytics and Data Mining

Business Psychology:

Employment Law for HRM
Learning and Development
Global Working
Employee Relations
Contemporary Issues in HRM

Business Economics/International Business:

Further Topics in Macroeconomics
Further Topics in Microeconomics
Environmental Economics
International Trade
Economics of Entrepreneurship

Information Systems:

Managing Information Technology in a Global Context
Information Security
Technology & Practice of eCommerce

Law:

Fraud, Bribery & Corruption
Product, Intellectual Property & Entrepreneurship
Business Ethics
Professional Conduct and Ethics
Data Protection Law
Emerging Technologies, AI and Law

â€‹â€‹â€‹â€‹â€‹â€‹â€‹Marketing:

International Marketing
Innovation & New Product & Service Development
Strategic Brand Management
Consumer Research and the Customer Experience
Advanced Marketing Communications

â€‹â€‹â€‹â€‹â€‹â€‹â€‹Operations Management:

Supply Chain Management
Sustainable Operations Management
Effective Project Delivery 1
Effective Project Delivery 2

*Availability of any optional modules will be subject to staff availability and a minimum number of students who express an interest in studying the optional modules.

Accreditation is a stamp of quality and prestige for a business school and its programmes.Aston is proud to be among 1% of business schools worldwide withtriple accreditation.

Requirements

Entry Requirements

BBB - standard offer

BBC (with EPQ or Core maths minimum grade B)

BBC (contextual offer)*

*For details on our Aston Ready contextual offer scheme, please see here.

English Program Requirements

To be accepted onto our programmes, you must be able to satisfy the University's English language requirements. The level required will depend on the programme you are applying for. We strive to make your application process as easy as possible, however in all cases we reserve the right to request an English language qualification and / or conduct an interview.

We accept a wide range of English language qualifications including:

IELTS Academic
TOEFL
PTE Academic
TOEFL iBT Home Edition
Password
Duolingo English Test (for entry onto Pre-Sessional English programmes, and direct entry courses starting in January 2022 and September 2022, excluding Aston Medical School, OSPAP, and Postgraduate Research degree programmes).
Kaplan International Tools for English (KITE)

Career

Our graduates are in high demand by organisations that need managers who can combine broad-based and specialist knowledge in areas such as accounting and finance, marketing, business administration, and operations management.

Recent graduates

Our graduates are successful in finding employment in a range of business roles such as:

Corporate Marketing Graduate Scheme Associate
Area Manager
Project Manager
Event Management
Sales and marketing graduate scheme
Operations graduate scheme
Associate Accounting Strategist
Product Marketing Manager
Credit Risk Analyst.

Our graduates have gone on to work at companies such as Samsung, Coutts, Amazon, Hewlett Packard, Santander, Chamber of Commerce, KPMG, Lloyds Bank, Google, Channel 4 and West Midlands Police.

"I chose to study Business and Management at Aston because it allows you to see business from different angles. It also provides you with an idea of how business works in real life."

Margarita Latoseva

Final Year Business and Management student and part-time Marketing Coordinator at Aston University SU

Victoria Hurst, who has just completed her year-long placement at Lubrizol - and has been appointed on a permanent basis.

Read Lubrizol's article on Vitoria

It may have taken her a while to find her voice in meetings, but it didnt take long for Aston University student Victoria Hurst to realise how much potential there was for her to put her creativity into good during her year-long placement at Lubrizol.

She said: â€œMy degree is in business management, I dont have any technical expertise at all, and there I was working at a company which sells engine lubricants and additives for industrial and driveline applications.

â€œIt was a huge jump from what I was used to and Id say it took me three months to really understand what the company did because there was so much to learn, with plenty of acronyms and technical jargon.

â€œIn my first few meetings, I found it challenging to ask the right questions and offer my perspective. However, my colleagues supported me and were always there if I had a silly questionâ€ she says.

â€œOnce I got a full understanding, I felt really confident, because I realised how much scope there was to be creative with information that Id found overwhelming at first.â€

This was because Victorias role, as part of her one-year student placement at Lubrizol, which is based in Derbyshire, was to offer business and marketing support, meaning that her role was to prepare marketing material that would help the companys sales teams to demonstrate the benefits of their latest products.

â€œThe strategy was to show how the products are useful to the end user so our job was precisely to turn all that technical data into information that demonstrated how it would bring value to the end user,â€ she said.

â€œOnce I got to grips with that, I realised that it was not that different to the kind of consumer-focussed marketing that I had been learning about and that gave me confidence.

â€œI went from thinking I would be doing a placement just to be there and to learn about business to being given lots of responsibility and seeing how my work was being put into practice and was having a direct benefit for the company.â€

This exceeded Victorias expectations and she rose to the challenge, as well as taking on a role with the charities committee, which enabled her to network with employees from across the company - a strategy she recommends for anyone undertaking a work placement.

She also says that she put her presenting skills, learned at Aston University, into good use and they helped her to win an in-house competition among all of Lubrizols 28 work placement students, where they each showcased their work to an audience of 70 people.

Victoria won, and her triumph, and her day job, got her noticed, with Lubrizol having since given her a graduate position in marketing, sales and product management, starting this month on a flexible contract so that she can fulfil her role while completing her final role at university.

â€œThe general manager, Alison Fisher, phoned me and told me personally, and it was a total shock,â€ said Victoria. â€œIm going to be working remotely while undertaking a blended approach to my university studies, which is certainly going to be hard work.â€

Lubrizol, which operates from a site deep in the Derbyshire countryside overlooking a valley and home to hundreds of animals, birds and plants - â€œIm from rural Somerset so I felt very at home there,â€ says Victoria, - has wide restrictions in place and so Victoria and her colleagues will not be back on site full-time until January.

By that time, she will be fully used to remote working - which experts predict will be very much part of doing business in the future - and will have developed her commercial skills and abilities even further, all of which leaves her in no doubt as to the benefits of applying for a work placement.

â€œIn terms of the opportunities it gives you, the networking and the way it allows you to build up your profile on LinkedIn, there are so many positives to doing a work placement that universities dont offer,â€ she says.

â€œPlus, there was the experience of being given the opportunity to do work that fed directly into the work of our sales team which really helped me to build my confidence and feel valued as an employee.

â€œAnd, of course, Im so happy that I have secured a long-term position, which means I wont have the stress of worry of looking for employment when I finish my degree.â€

Thierry Douchy, regional business manager of industrial specialties, said: â€œVictoria integrated very quickly into the industrial team and made a significant contribution to the department.

â€œAs the year progressed, she took on more and more work and we felt that it would be of benefit to our department and for Lubrizol for us to extend her contract.

â€œWell done Victoria, and welcome back.â€