Course summary

This course provides a practical business education focused on the luxury sector – enabling you to apply core management skills to luxury businesses and brands, and develop a critical understanding of the trends that shape the industry. You’ll transition into a confident, collaborative, creative and enterprising professional, able to launch and manage luxury enterprises while adapting to change. Drawing on real case studies, you’ll acquire a global perspective of luxury sectors – including fashion, travel and automotive – and gain a deep understanding of how high-end businesses thrive. You’ll learn about core subjects including finance, economics, and strategic management, while debating the definition of luxury, identifying emerging trends and exploring the challenges that existing players face. Learn in London – the home of luxury brands From global organisations to new start-ups, studying in London offers opportunities to engage with all aspects of the business arena – gaining valuable work experience and meeting influential industry contacts. You'll join masterclasses and creative labs, learn how to develop your own products or enterprises and work on live briefs commissioned by industry experts that expose you to real-world business issues and give you the strategic skills to combat them. You'll graduate with a practical, future-facing business education that's creative, entrepreneurial, network-driven and tech engaged – adept and launching, building and adding value to luxury brands. Integrated Foundation option The integrated foundation year has been specially designed to give you the introductory knowledge and business skills needed to confidently progress to degree-level study. It's structured around discipline knowledge, with extra modules that introduce you to the transferable skills you'll need at degree level and beyond – giving you a solid grounding in both management principles and business skills. Once you've successfully completed your Foundation year, you'll be able to progress to any of our business, social sciences, humanities or media undergraduate courses. Building on this foundation, you’ll develop specialist knowledge in your chosen course.