Course summary

This course is designed to meet the growing demands of businesses for graduates who possess rigorously developed personal, as well as business skills. It aims to produce graduates who are ready for employment in a management role. The course is open to graduates of any academic discipline, and also to non-graduates who have appropriate work experience and hold a sub-degree or professional qualification. Modules cover the basics of marketing, project management, accounting, and people management, amongst other key areas. This breadth gives you highly transferable skills, relevant to most work environments, which will enable you to become an effective employee or a future entrepreneur. Problem solving skills are explored, developed and enhanced across the programme, and you will have the opportunity to be a creative, imaginative and independent learner from the start – essential in the modern business world. The programme also aims to strengthen your critical thinking and communication skills. This enables you to become more creative and innovative, and able to identify, analyse and manage business issues and problems to produce viable solutions and/or recommendations. Our emphasis on the course is to prepare you for a career in business and management where knowledge of a range of disciplines (business functions) is imperative. In addition the range of professional, individual, and transferable skills necessary for a successful career in management form a key component of the programme and its design.