Business Studies

Why take this course?

1.) The benefits of studying over a period of three years

• You will be able to study for the BA degree over a period of 3 years by completing 2 modules per term. Therefore, you are able to enjoy a well paced approach towards completing your degree studies.
• It is possible to work on a full-time basis over the summer holidays and gain valuable work experience either in the UK or back in your country. It is possible to earn a reasonable income during full time summer work and save towards the funding of your studies. The practical experience gained in the working environment will enhance student knowledge and add to their long term employability.
• It is possible to seek work placements via certain “student work placement agencies” during your summer holidays. The College will be able to assist you in terms of approaching the correct “student work placement agency”.

2.) It provides an excellent broad-based grounding in all aspects of business

• The modules on the University of Wales degree are specially designed for tomorrow’s Business professionals with a focus on
• Firstly, Knowledge. Students within the degree will learn about all the main management functions including Finance, Marketing, Human Resources, IT and Production.
• Secondly ,Skills. As importantly students will acquire the practical skills needed in the work place today including leadership, group working, project management and presentations.
• Case studies and real company examples will encourage students to hone their knowledge and apply the theory to practice

3.) Wide choice of Financially rewarding career opportunities

• The broad coverage of the Business Degree will prepare students to either
• work in general management and so eventually hopefully reach the top highly paid position in a firm of Managing director
• Specialise in one area of management after graduation in which role the general knowledge of other aspects of Management will be extremely useful.
• In either circumstances the graduate will be in a challenging and financially rewarding position

4.) To run one’s own business

• To run their own business successfully the owner will need to know about all aspects of Management.
• Firstly, at the start of the Business he/she will have to perform a variety of different management roles as specialist managers could not be afforded
• As the Business grows it is essential the owner also understands all that goes on in order to have proper controls in place for every part of the Business

5.) It provides a strong foundation for further study

• A University of Wales BA degree will give students the opportunity to progress to an MBA programme at KCB or another UK university.
• Alternatively students can decide to obtain a specialist professional qualification such as CIM or ICSA for which they will obtain significant exemption

COURSE CONTENT AND ASSESSMENT

The course contains eighteen modules with fourteen compulsory modules and four optional modules. The assessments are exams and course work based as shown below. Students have to pass 18 modules to be awarded the BA. Business Studies with Honours [BA Hons] but can be awarded an Ordinary degree [BA] if they pass 14 modules.

Each Module is marked out of 100 (%mark) with the pass mark being 40%.When a student passes 18 subjects the Honours degree classification will depend upon the Grade Point Average (GPA) of modules studied at levels 5 and 6.

The class of the Honours Degree is very important for the students future career and/or further study.

Course Duration and structure

The course duration is 36 months of full-time study, with 3 possible start dates in January, April or October every year.

The 3 year (36 months) Course is divided into 9 terms and students study 2 modules per term for each of the nine termsFrom the list above the first 6 subjects are studied in year 1 and another 6in year 2 and the remaining 6 subjects are studied in year3