Business Management BA (Hons)

De Montfort University

Bachelor's degree

In Leicester

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Description

  • Type

    Bachelor's degree

  • Location

    Leicester

  • Duration

    3 Years

This highly practical course gives you an excellent grounding in how businesses are run and managed. You’ll develop vital employability and communication skills, explore creative ideas, and gain a deep awareness of business.

You can tailor your degree to reflect your interests and career ambitions by specialising in topics such as accounting and finance, human resource management, and marketing.

The modules we offer are continually reviewed, considering contemporary issues, to make sure you are equipped with the knowledge and skills that employers need – such as our Business and Sustainability module, which covers sustainability challenges and explores how managers can successfully balance their economic, social and environmental impacts.

A Business Management degree at DMU can open up an exciting career path in a wide range of areas. Previous graduates from this degree have gone on to successful careers in world-renowned organisations, including Amazon, Goldman Sachs, Caterpillar, HP and The Body Shop.

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Leicester (Leicestershire)
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The Gateway, LE1 9BH

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About this course

A degree in Business Management opens up a wide range of career opportunities as you develop a broad base of skills that are in great demand with employers.

You may choose to specialise in a discipline that you enjoyed studying on the programme.

Recent graduates have progressed onto roles such as Operations Analyst at Goldman Sachs, General Management Graduate at Network Rail and Business Process and Design Analyst at Vodafone.

Business Management student and entrepreneur Merissa Gidden achieved her goal of working with Goldman Sachs - while still studying at DMU. Merissa received a graduate job offer before returning to campus for her final year.

Entry criteria

A typical offer is 112 UCAS points. You need to study at least two subjects at A Level or equivalent (eg BTEC)
Plus, five GCSEs at grade 4 or above including English Language and Maths

Alternative qualifications include:

Pass Access with 30 Level 3 credits at Merit (or equivalent)
English (Language or Literature) and Maths GCSE required as separate qualifications at grade 4

We will normally require students to have had a break from full time education before undertaking the Access course

International Baccalaureate: 26+ Points

DMU is ranked Gold in the Teaching Excellence Framework, the only UK government-endorsed measure of teaching quality in higher education (Office for Students, 2017).
If you successfully complete certain modules you will be eligible for the award of the Chartered Management Institute (CMI) Level 5 Certificate in Management and Leadership, at no additional cost, upon completion of your degree.
Our DMU Fox’s Lair initiative will help to prepare you for the business world, with an opportunity to work in groups to generate and present a business plan to local entrepreneurs and executives, competing for a financial investment prize.
Benefit from DMU’s careers and employability team, who have been named the Best University Careers/Employability Service at the National Undergraduate Employability (NUE) Awards 2021.
Students have recently secured placements at leading companies such as BMW, Jaguar Land Rover, Triumph, Phillips 66 and Siemens, working in areas such as supply chain and logistics, digital marketing, purchasing, and research and development.
DMU has a modern, fully resourced 24-hour library with access to thousands of online books and journals, including news, analysis and commentary from leading global business publication the Financial Times, and marketing insight from WARC.

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Subjects

  • Business and Management
  • Teaching
  • Marketing
  • International
  • Global
  • Finance
  • Entrepreneurship
  • Enterprise
  • Organisations
  • Understanding Business

Course programme

Course modules

Year 1
  • Financial Decision Making
  • Introduction to Entrepreneurship and Enterprise
  • Global Business and Finance
  • Introduction to Work and Organisations
  • Understanding Business
  • Principles of Marketing
  • Academic Development and Professional Practice
Year 2
  • Contemporary Management
  • Business and Sustainability
Plus option modules from the following indicative list:
  • Performance Measurement in Organisations
  • Business Research Issues and Analytics
  • European Business Issues
  • The Creative Art of Selling and Negotiation
  • HRM in the Workplace
  • International Marketing
  • Government and Business
  • Business and Finance Essentials
  • Progressive Franchising
  • Global Operations and Supply Chain Management
  • Business Law
Year 3
  • Global Contemporary Business Issues
  • Global Strategic Management
Plus option modules from the following indicative list:
  • International Developments in Accounting
  • Service Operations Management
  • Crisis and Business Continuity Management
  • Creative Management and Marketing
  • Globalisation and International HRM
  • Managing Change and Innovation
  • Critical Analysis of Organisations*
  • Customer Management
  • Corporate Social Responsibility and Business Ethics
  • Social Innovation and Entrepreneurship
  • Reflective Business Practice
  • Strategy and Management Dissertation
Teaching and assessment

You will be taught through a combination of lectures, tutorials, seminars, group work and self-directed study. Assessment is through coursework (presentations, essays and reports) and usually an exam or test, which is typically weighted as follows in your first year:
  • Exam: 33%
  • Coursework: 67%
These assessment weightings are indicative only. The exact weighting may vary depending on option modules chosen by students and teaching methods deployed by the academic member of staff each year. Indicative assessment weighting and assessment type per module are shown as part of the module information. Again these are based on the current academic session.

Teaching contact hours

This is a full-time course and in total you should be prepared to devote approximately 38 hours a week to your studies. In the first year, you will typically have up to 14 contact hours of teaching most weeks. Teaching is through a mix of lectures, tutorials, seminars and lab sessions and the breakdown of these activity types is shown in each module description.

Other: In addition each module provides a two hour surgery each week for individual consultation with the lecturer. You will also have timetabled meetings with your personal tutor and careers and/or subject meetings scheduled throughout the year.

Self-directed study: In order to prepare for, and assimilate, the work in lectures and seminars you will be expected to use our on-line resources, participate in flipped or virtual classroom discussions on our virtual learning environment (VLE) and engage in personal study and revision for approximately 25 hours per week.

Subsequent years follow a similar pattern, however, the contact time will vary depending on your subject mix and options chosen, and the teaching methods appropriate to the module. Further details are contained in each module description.

Additional information

UCAS course code: NN12

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