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The Â鶹ӰԺ Business School's courses provide students with hands-on experiential learning and an optimal balance of theoretical and practical approaches. With strong industry links, our courses are developed in close consultation with industry leaders. Our focus on developing your entrepreneurship and employability will make you market-ready when you graduate. Â鶹ӰԺ Business School is a member of the   &²Բú²õ±è;

  • Our business management routes develop your understanding of how organisations operate, equipping you with the leadership, management and ethical decision-making skills needed for a successful career across the public, private and third sectors.
  • Courses offer opportunities for study abroad, tailored pathways, and valuable work placements that help you build professional experience and advanced management skills.
  • The BSc (Hons) Business Psychology combines business and psychology, preparing you for careers in areas such as human resources, marketing, organisational development and business management.
  • The BA (Hons) International Hospitality, Tourism and Events Management prepares you for careers in a dynamic global industry through a high-quality 20-week internship and strong industry engagement. Partnerships with leading hospitality, tourism and events organisations provide opportunities for networking, conferences, workshops and international experiences. 

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Undergraduate business courses at Â鶹ӰԺ

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BA (Hons) Business Management

This generic business management degree routes provide the hands‑on experience you need to make a strong professional impact from the moment you graduate. 

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BA (Hons) Business Management with Analytics

This course will help you to develop a specialised understanding of analytical methods and utilise software packages to support key business decisions alongside core business management skills. You will learn how businesses generate meaningful reports for other stakeholders, make decisions and gain knowledge on the different tools we can use to analyse information. 

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BA (Hons) Business Management with Digital Marketing

This course will help you develop a specialised understanding of marketing theory and practice. As well as learning what makes customers buy from a business, you will look at how marketing can make a company more profitable. 

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BA (Hons) Business Management with Finance

This course will give you the contemporary theory and practice you need to carve a career in business finance and management and become part of an accomplished finance team, the heart of every successful business. 

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BA (Hons) Business Management with Human Resource Management

This course will provide you with the expertise to align organisational goals with people, values and culture. People are an organisation’s most important asset and, if you are interested in a career which facilitates and maximises the contribution of people, this course is for you. 

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BA (Hons) Business Psychology

Are you interested in a people-focused career in business? By bringing together the study of business management and psychology, this BA (Hons) in Business Psychology will give you a strong foundation for a career in human resource management, marketing, organisational development or general business management. 

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Our distinct approach to learning and teaching

Our approach to teaching and research in business-related subjects is distinctive in three ways:

  1. Our commitment to providing the optimum balance of theoretical and practical approaches, with strong industry links.

  2. Our emphasis on the need for ethical, social and ecological responsibility in business.

  3. Our entrepreneurial focus — students and recent graduates benefit from Â鶹ӰԺ’s Startup Studio and on-campus Business Gateway, plus the Bright Red Triangle package of entrepreneurial support and many go on to create their own businesses.
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Highlights of our learning and teaching: flexibility, strong industry links and variety in assessment methods 

Tailor your degree: Our business management degrees are modular. In  Years One and Two core modules in each degree will give you a  grounding in your chosen area. As you progress, you will begin to learn  more about your particular area and  all of our courses offer the  opportunity to select modules in  which you have a particular interest in later years. With all our degrees you can tailor some of your  programme of study, choosing electives from across the  undergraduate suite in the Business School 

Gain industry insights and contacts: You will participate in stimulating learning environments from lectures, seminars and workshops to field trips and study abroad options. Our courses include workplace experience, and, as industry is extremely supportive of our courses, you will benefit from hearing guest lectures from a range of practitioners and visiting professors. You will gain insights into high-profile companies such as Bacardi, Social Bite, Skyscanner, Google and Edinburgh Airport, whose representatives have joined us as visiting speakers recently. Developing contacts and networks is key to gaining an understanding of the industry, to securing work experience, and to gaining employment on graduation. 

Variety in assessment methods: Assessment methods vary and include a balanced combination of examinations, written reports, essays, presentations, creating websites and other forms of applied assessment. Some of our modules specifically utilise group work to develop team working skills and others focus on you as the individual. You will get formative feedback as you study, to provide you with an early indication about the progress you have made and can use this feedback to inform your summative assessments. 

Research-informed teaching 

You will be taught by active academics who are doing research in their own right. Some colleagues have recently completed their doctoral studies, and others are publishing in mainstream academic journals. Such engagement is key to the relevance of our courses and helps equip staff and students with the background to make informed decisions about their future. You will have contact with our growing number of PhD students as you progress through your chosen route of study. This will allow you the opportunity to interact in an informal and collegiate way with those engaged in the highest levels of academic activity and perhaps to discover that their enthusiasms accord closely with your own. At Â鶹ӰԺ the door to academic advancement is an open one! 

As you reach the later stages of undergraduate study, there are opportunities to develop individual pieces of research through the honours project, depending on your course of study, and those students who choose further study at master's or doctoral level are encouraged to pursue these interests. 

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Preparing you for successful careers

  • Our business management graduates are proving their worth to companies in the UK and internationally and have left Â鶹ӰԺ to embark on a wide range of successful careers in various sectors such as the financial sector in organisations such as Royal Bank of Scotland, Capita, Standard Life Investment and Lloyds Bank. 
  • Many of our graduates enter management training programmes in companies such as Diageo, Enterprise Rent-A-Car, John Lewis and Marks and Spencer. Others have set up their own businesses, entered teaching or taken their learning further as postgraduate students. 
  • Our international hospitality, tourism and events management (IHTEM) students have progressed to successful careers in a variety of organisations such as Disney World, VisitScotland and EventScotland, Sheraton, Gleneagles, Malmaison and Hotel du Vin, Hilton, RF Hotels, as well as many smaller privately owned companies in tourism, hospitality and events. 
  • Some students have also started up their own hospitality, tourism or events business.
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