Business (BSc): 3-year, full-time
Bachelor's degree
In London
Description
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Type
Bachelor's degree
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Location
London
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Duration
3 Years
BSc Business is a highly flexible course designed to develop your knowledge and understanding of the fundamentals of business management, while providing you with a range of practical skills to enable you to succeed in the workplace.
The first year introduces the key areas in the study of business. In the second year, you choose to either remain on the BSc Business or opt to specialise with a pathway in accounting, human resource management or marketing, while also developing core skills required for a career in business management.
Based in the Department of Management, this programmes takes an interdisciplinary approach to the subject, offering you an innovative way of learning about topics that cannot be pigeonholed into one particular area.
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About this course
You will develop key skills such as:
analytical skills that will enable you to critically appraise and challenge existing managerial or business practices
an understanding of how decisions are made in organisations
quantitative skills that can be applied in the analysis of management and accounting problems
communication and interpersonal skills.
Birkbeck has a diverse student community, which creates a stimulating and supportive learning environment. You will interact with peers, many of whom will have come from directly relevant jobs, possessing a broad range of experience, to develop a more detailed and nuanced insight into business.
Our graduates begin new careers or accelerate along their current career path because what we teach in the evening can be applied almost instantly. For this reason, alumni from the Department of Management include chief executives, senior business leaders, notable academics and public figures.
This course is also available for part-time evening study over four years.
Graduates can pursue careers in business, management, accounting or human resources management. This degree may also be useful in becoming a human resources officer, management consultant, corporate investment banker or marketing executive.
We offer a comprehensive Careers Service to help you advance your career, while our in-house, professional recruitment consultancy, Birkbeck Talent, works with London’s top employers to help you gain work experience that fits in with your evening studies.
We welcome applicants without traditional entry qualifications as we base decisions on our own assessment of qualifications, knowledge and previous work experience. We may waive formal entry requirements based on judgement of academic potential.
Awarding Body
University of London
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Subjects
- People Management
- International Business
- International
- Buyer Behaviour
- Innovation
- Financial Reporting
- Entrepreneurship
- Operations Management
- Business and Management
- Business Accounting
- Information Systems
- Management Information Systems
- IT Project Management
- Microeconomics
- Macroeconomics
- Marketing
- Financial
- Public
- Private
- Project
- Systems
- Full Time
- Business Marketing
- Resource Management
- Project Management
- Employment Relations
- Management Accounting
- Financial Training
Course programme
In the first year, all students take shared core and compulsory modules worth 120 credits.
You can then either complete the BSc Business or choose a pathway in accounting, human resource management or marketing.
You can take any option module offered by the Department of Management, subject to the Programme Director's approval.
BSC BUSINESS
In Year 2, you take five compulsory modules and choose option modules worth 45 credits.
In Year 3, you take two compulsory modules, including a business project, and choose option modules worth 75 credits.
BSC BUSINESS AND ACCOUNTING
In Year 2, you take four compulsory modules and choose option modules worth 30 credits.
In Year 3, you take three compulsory modules, including a research project, and choose option modules worth 30 credits.
BSC BUSINESS AND HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT
In Year 2, you take six compulsory modules and choose option modules worth 30 credits.
In Year 3, you take three compulsory modules, including a research project, and choose option modules worth 30 credits.
BSC BUSINESS AND MARKETING
In Year 2, you take six compulsory modules and choose option modules worth 30 credits.
In Year 3, you take three compulsory modules, including a research project, and choose option modules worth 30 credits.
ALL BSC BUSINESS PATHWAYS - YEAR 1
- Business Information Systems
- Introduction to Accounting
- Management Studies I
- Management Studies II
- Microeconomics for Business (Level 4)
- Personal and Academic Skills for Success
- Principles of Marketing (Undergraduate)
- Quantitative Methods
- Buyer Behaviour
- Critical Perspectives on People Management
- International Business (level 5)
- Macroeconomics for Business
- Management of Innovation (level 5)
- Business Project
- Entrepreneurship and Small Business
- Financial Reporting (level 5)
- Macroeconomics for Business
- Management Accounting (30 credits)
- Research Methods in Management (Undergraduate)
- Auditing
- Research Project: Management
- Taxation
- Critical Perspectives on People Management
- Macroeconomics for Business
- Motivation, Engagement and Job Design
- Organizational Behaviour
- Organizational Change
- Research Methods in Management (Undergraduate)
- Contemporary Perspectives in Employment Relations
- Introduction to Corporate Governance and Ethics
- Research Project: Management
- Buyer Behaviour
- Critical Perspectives on People Management
- Macroeconomics for Business
- Management of Innovation (level 5)
- Operations Management
- Research Methods in Management (Undergraduate)
- Brand Development
- Marketing Strategy
- Research Project: Management
- Advanced Management Accounting
- Auditing
- Brand Development
- Commercial Law for Business
- Financial Management
- Financial Reporting (level 5)
- Groupwork in Practice
- International Financial Management
- International Marketing
- Introduction to Corporate Governance and Ethics
- Investing in Securities Markets
- Management of Innovation
- Marketing Communications
- Marketing Simulation
- Marketing Strategy
- Operations Management
- Personal Effectiveness (Level 5)
- Services Marketing
- Strategic Management (Undergraduate)
- Sustainability and Stakeholder Marketing
- Taxation
Additional information
FEES
Full-time international students: £ 14280 pa
Business (BSc): 3-year, full-time