Part Time BA (Hons) Business Management

BA (Hons) Business Management

Course Summary
This course develops creativity, enterprise, problem solving and decision making abilities through a range of skills and knowledge relevant to modern business. The course is designed to meet employers' needs and to create graduates who have a sound grasp of business and good transferable skills.

Course Structure
Students normally study up to six modules in each year. Almost two thirds of these modules will be compulsory, providing a solid core of business amd management subjects. The remaining modules are chosen from a range of options.

Bury St Edmunds Centre

First year modules include:
Personal Development, Economic Environment, Business Law, and Principles of Management.

Second year modules include:
Marketing Management, Human Resource Management, Management Information Systems, Research Methods, and International Business.

Third year modules include:
a dissertation, Employment Law, Ethics, Strategic Management, and International Marketing.

Ipswich Campus

First year modules include:
Business in Context, Finance and Data Analysis, Management Skills Development, Business Law, and Entrepreneurship.

Second year modules include:
Business Environment, Research Methods, and Organisational Behaviour.

Options include:
Innovation and Creativity, Marketing Practice, Financial Accounting, Personal and Career Development, Managing Information and Activities, and a work-based project.

Third year modules include:
a dissertation, Strategic Management, and Managing Change.

Options include:
Employment Law, International Marketing, Managing Human Resources, Marketing Communications, Financial Strategy, and Management Accounting.

Assessment
Students are assessed through a mixture of written assignments, case study reports, presentations and examinations.

After the Course
Upon graduation students can progress to employment in a professional area. This degree also helps those individuals already working in the business sector to gain promotion and become more confident with the decisions they make in the work place. Many also enter programmes of further study for advanced professional qualifications or postgraduate courses such as the Masters in Business Administration (MBA) at University Campus Suffolk.

Key facts

UCAS code:
N100 BA/BM

Typical offer:
2010 entry: 200 UCAS tariff points (or equivalent)

2011 entry: 240 UCAS tariff points (or equivalent)

For mature students and those with non-traditional qualifications and work experience, please see the information for mature students|.

Duration of course:
Three years full-time or four and a half to nine years part-time

Campus code:
Bury St Edmunds Centre (campus code B)

Ipswich Campus (campus code I)

At the Ipswich Campus students can also study Business Management with:

Leisure Management (UCAS code: N2L3 BA/BMWLM)

Psychology (UCAS code: CN82 BSc/PBMgt)

Tourism Management (UCAS code: N2N8 BA/BMWTM)