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Kingston University

Degree level: Undergraduate

Business Management and Entrepreneurship and Professional Placement Year

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2024 - 2025
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Course summary

Reasons to choose Kingston

  • You’ll gain insights into all aspects of business, as well as specific support from industry experts and entrepreneurs.
  • Kingston Business School holds the Small Business Charter Award, highlighting its expertise in supporting small businesses and student entrepreneurship. The School has received a Business Accreditation by the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB).
  • The School provides training and support for small businesses and entrepreneurs across the country, linking you to a wide network of people who can support you.
  • 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 Do you have your own business or aspire to start your own? Do you see yourself working as an entrepreneur? If so, this course is ideal for you. You’ll gain knowledge of business strategy, project management, start-up creation and growth design thinking, and finance and accounting. You’ll also learn to design and implement innovative management, technological change, develop entrepreneurship skills, and gain first-hand experience in managing and leading entrepreneurial teams. With full support from the University, the course enables you to start a business. We’re proudly ranked one of the top two UK higher education institutions for graduate start-ups for the past 10 years (HESA 2020/21). Sandwich Year This course has a sandwich year which takes place between Year 2 and your Final Year. During this sandwich 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 You’ll graduate with key skills, ready to create a business or work within one and build its market success. These crucial skills are also key for intrapreneurs inside larger organisations.

Modules

Example modules

  • Unlocking Commercial Impact
  • Build My Business
  • Entrepreneurship and Design Thinking
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

31Jan

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:
N214
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-and-entrepreneurship/

Unistats information

Operated by the Office for Students

There is no data available for this course. For further information visit 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

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 Entrepreneurship and Professional Placement Year at Kingston University - UCAS