Aston's 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.
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 you'll also undertake a placement year to put your learning into practice.
Students who have completed grade 12 and the Tawjihi are eligible to apply for a one-year International Foundation Programme and then progress to undergraduate study.
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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.
Our graduates are successful in finding employment in a range of business roles such as:
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.
It may have taken her a while to find her voice in meetings, but it didn't 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: "My degree is in business management, I don't 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.
"It was a huge jump from what I was used to and I'd 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.
"In 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 question" she says.
"Once I got a full understanding, I felt really confident, because I realised how much scope there was to be creative with information that I'd found overwhelming at first."
This was because Victoria's 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 company's sales teams to demonstrate the benefits of their latest products.
"The 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," she said.
"Once 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.
"I 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."
This exceeded Victoria's 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 Lubrizol's 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.
"The general manager, Alison Fisher, phoned me and told me personally, and it was a total shock," said Victoria. "I'm going to be working remotely while undertaking a blended approach to my university studies, which is certainly going to be hard work."
Lubrizol, which operates from a site deep in the Derbyshire countryside overlooking a valley and home to hundreds of animals, birds and plants "“ "I'm from rural Somerset so I felt very at home there," 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.
"In 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 don't offer," she says.
"Plus, 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.
"And, of course, I'm so happy that I have secured a long-term position, which means I won't have the stress of worry of looking for employment when I finish my degree."
Thierry Douchy, regional business manager of industrial specialties, said: "Victoria integrated very quickly into the industrial team and made a significant contribution to the department.
"As 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.
"Well done Victoria, and welcome back."
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