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Business Management and Digital Innovation with Professional Placement Year at Kingston University - UCAS

Kingston University

Degree level: Undergraduate

Business Management and Digital Innovation with Professional Placement Year

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2025 - 2026
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Kingston University has participated in the Teaching Excellence Framework. These ratings were awarded in 2023, for four years.

Course summary

Reasons to choose Kingston

  • In just three years, you’ll graduate with a business degree and the real-life practical experience and skills that employers are looking for.
  • This course is designed and developed in collaboration with industry experts across different areas of the business world to ensure content reflects latest trends, challenges and practices.
  • Kingston Business School has been recognized for quality by the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB). This award is earned by just five percent of the world’s business schools.
  • Graduate employability is embedded in module activities and extracurricular events such as networking with industry professionals, hackathons and speed interviewing.
  • Our commitment to high quality teaching has been recognised with a Teaching Excellence Framework (TEF) Gold rating. The University has received an overall rating of Gold, as well as securing a Gold award in the framework's two new student experience and student outcomes categories.
About this course This new course will cover the fundamentals of the business eco-system and the key current and future aspects of developing data and digital enhanced solutions in business. This area includes the disruption nature of technology on business models and also provides exposure to how technology can drive value in areas such as finance, marketing, supply chain, service design, sustainability and human resource management. The course will prepare you to manage technology informed projects in a responsible and sustainable way. A key strand is entrepreneurship and design – developing your ability to respond proactively to current business problems and priorities. Professional Placement Year This course has a professional placement year which takes place between Year 2 and your Final Year. During this year you will take a placement within a business setting, ensuring you gain essential experience to add to your CV and help you secure a graduate job. Future Skills Embedded within every course curriculum and throughout the whole Kingston experience, Future Skills will play a role in shaping you to become a future-proof graduate, providing you with the skills most valued by employers such as problem-solving, digital competency, and adaptability. As you progress through your degree, you'll learn to navigate, explore and apply these graduate skills, learning to demonstrate and articulate to employers how future skills give you the edge. At Kingston University, we're not just keeping up with change, we're creating it. Career opportunities This course will enable you to work in a variety of organisations, from large companies to SMEs. You will be supported to start your own businesses or progress to postgraduate degrees and professional qualifications.

Modules

Example modules

  • Leadership, Transformation, and Complexity
  • Global Business Environments
  • Digital Innovation and Transformation
  • Technology in Focus
To view the full list of modules, please visit the University course webpage.

Assessment method

Assessment typically comprises exams (e.g. test or exam), practical (e.g. presentations, performance) and coursework (e.g. essays, reports, self-assessment, portfolios, dissertation).

How to apply

29Jan

This is the deadline for applications to be completed and sent for this course. If the university or college still has places available you can apply after this date, but your application is not guaranteed to be considered.

Application codes

Course code:
N295
Institution code:
K84
Campus name:
Main Site
Campus code:
-

Points of entry

The following entry points are available for this course:

  • Year 1

Entry requirements

Qualification requirements

Please click the following link to find out more about qualification requirements for this course

https://www.kingston.ac.uk/undergraduate/courses/business-management-digital-innovation/

Student Outcomes

Operated by the Office for Students
66%
Employment after 15 months (Most common jobs)
82%
Go onto work and study

The number of student respondents and response rates can be important in interpreting the data – it is important to note your experience may be different from theirs. This data will be based on the subject area rather than the specific course. Read more about this data on the Discover Uni website.

Fees and funding

Tuition fees

England £9250 Year 1
Northern Ireland £9250 Year 1
Scotland £9250 Year 1
Wales £9250 Year 1

Tuition fee status depends on a number of criteria and varies according to where in the UK you will study. For further guidance on the criteria for home or overseas tuition fees, please refer to the UKCISA website .

Additional fee information

For international fees, please visit: https://www.kingston.ac.uk/undergraduate/fees-and-funding/fees/ Please visit the provider course webpage for further information regarding additional course costs.
Business Management and Digital Innovation with Professional Placement Year at Kingston University - UCAS