BA (Hons) Business Management Buckinghamshire New University

Program Description

Are you an ambitious, driven individual? Looking to kick-start your career in the business sector? Accredited by the leading professional body, The Chartered Management Institute (CMI), our Business Management degree can help you gain the confidence and skills to become a future CEO. You’ll study a range of subject areas from global business and sustainability, to financial decision making and innovation. With a BA (Hons) Business Management degree from BNU, you’ll be well-placed and well-prepared to enter the employment market. You’ll cover diverse subject areas, including managing and engaging people, strategic marketing and global business sustainability. This will be alongside developing key skills such as understanding financial decision making, enhancing your attention to detail and analytical thinking. Studying such varied topics will help you understand how marketing impacts global businesses One exciting part of the first year course is a visit from an established brand, who will present a challenge which students collaborate to solve. Previous brands we have worked with for this session include Coca-Cola, Ryvita and Yop. During your second year you will study project management, sustainable operations and responsible enterprise and ethical research. Provided with live project briefs from real-life business clients, you will develop skills including working effectively in a team and pitching for business. You will be able to choose optional modules including consumer behaviour and data analytics for business decisions. As part of the consultancy module, you will work in a team with fellow students and create a pitch which you deliver to real local businesses, competing against other student teams to win the contract for the work. You will then act as a real external team for the client, with the project culminating in an exhibition to showcase the work of all students on the course. This module in particular is a great opportunity to develop your skills and get a greater sense of how consultancy projects progress, putting theory into practice. In your final year, you will focus on preparing for your future and career after graduation. In addition to learning about macro and diverse business issues and sustainable strategic agility, you will undertake an independent professional project. This allows you to examine a contemporary business management issue, whilst using your time management, professionalism, and personal discipline skills. Throughout the course, you will have opportunities for your LinkedIn profile and your CV to be critiqued and graded by your tutors, putting you in the best position possible when it comes to applying for future roles.

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