Business Management and Sustainability, BA (Hons)

You will cover content in core areas including financial management, planning, how to analyse businesses from organisational and operational viewpoints, and traditional and social media marketing.

The programme has a work-based focus throughout to prepare its participants for employment or starting their own enterprises.

UCW's commitment to great graduate outcomes is also underpinned by our students having access to a Careers Coaching service for the whole time they are enrolled with us.

Subject to coronavirus restrictions, you will also be invited to undertake optional day trips to real businesses and go on longer residential visits to enhance your learning experience, both at an additional expense.

In the past students from this course have spent the day at Land Rover and also gone to Belgium, for example.

It is taught at the new teaching and learning facilities at the multimillion pound University Centre in the Winter Gardens on Weston seafront.

Please contact the course leader Jason Hillyerd or our HEART student services team if you have any questions. It would also be great to see you at our next Open Day, where you can see our facilities and also meet the team.

This exciting degree programme offers students not just the possibility to study the fundamentals of Business, but in addition allows students to gain an understanding of contemporary issues in business including strategies for sustainable business development.

This course aims to nurture the socially and environmentally responsible business leaders of tomorrow by emphasising the theme of sustainability throughout.

It instils the practices common to all successful enterprises and was designed with the input of a range of businesses.

It will also prepare you to start your own successful business as you will develop transferable skills in analytical and critical thinking, strategic decision-making, problem- solving and self-reliance.

The programme also offers students the possibility to shape their own studies by electing to undertake either a dissertation or, to for those with an entrepreneurial spirit, to produce a detailed Business Plan.