Business Enterprise Development BSc - Undergraduate degrees

Do you want to do business, not just learn about it? Have you considered running your own business, or leading the development and success of an established organisation? Do you like working with others, and hands-on learning? If so, real-world business, real-world learning is for you.

Location: Aston University, Birmingham

What is enterprise development?

Our innovative programme is constructed around you working in a team to set up and run your own enterprise. You will learn everything you need to know by experiencing it for yourself.

The BSc Business Enterprise Development degree at Aston University aims to give you the best start to learning about how to develop, sustain and grow a business. It has been adapted by the globally renowned Team Academy model of entrepreneurship education from Finland, and built on the following principles:

• Develop your entrepreneurial capacity and mindset through learning-by-doing.
• Experience the development of a real business that you own with a team of others.
• Determine your own learning focus and needs, supported by team coaches who are there to guide and help you develop.

How youll study

This course has been designed to equip you with the skills, competencies and attitudes to enhance both your entrepreneurial mindset and leadership capabilities. You may be interested in setting up your own enterprise or want to lead the development and success of established organisations.

This programme is constructed around you working in a team and running your own enterprise. Your learning is developed through team coaching processes rather than taught or lecture-based inputs. Learning opportunities and assessments are built around three key pillars:

• Enterprise management and growth.
• Team performance and leadership.
• Innovation and entrepreneurialism.

What youll learn

As a team entrepreneur on the programme, you will dictate your own learning, asking for coaching on subjects when needed. You will hone your ability to generate, evaluate, present and develop new product and service ideas. In addition, you will have the opportunity to build strategic plans, resource profiles and marketing strategies.

In the final year, the focus is on enterprise growth and high performance. With your team, you will explore how to grow your enterprises, now in their third year of operation, through finding new sources of funding and focusing on customer values and branding.

Foundation programme

Choosing to start your Aston journey with our foundation programme in business will help you develop specialist knowledge to ensure that you are fully prepared to study 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 offer pre-sessional English language programmes.

Modules

BBC - standard offer

BCC (with EPQ or Core maths minimum grade B)

BCC (Contextual offer)*

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

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) 

No other course develops the skills, attributes and competencies necessary to thrive in the modern enterprise environment like this programme. It will give you the confidence, resilience and experience to lead, manage or set up your own business, or to take your future in whatever direction you want.

This is a new approach to learning and collaboration which is more aligned to the working world. You will gain real-life experience and will be able to draw on real examples in interviews of what you have achieved rather than learnt.

International opportunities

This course is based on a module that was first released in Finland called Team Academy, and is now practiced in sixteen countries, with six UK universities offering it. Once you have enrolled on this course you are linked to the global Team Academy hubs. Current students are organising a trip to Strasburg to link with another academic to trial some business ideas and generate funds.

What jobs will this course prepare me for?

You will have the tools and insights to set up your own business, and a third of our graduates from this course go on to do just that - run their own company.

However, it is also a great course if you are looking to become ‘intrapreneurs - working for a company that assesses and promotes innovative product development and marketing, for instance.