Introduction
Our flexible management degree courses share a common first year before allowing you to focus on your chosen specialism to enhance your career prospects. With a wide variety of course units to choose from, you really can shape your own course.
The following courses are available:
Degree title
Duration
UCAS code
BSc (Hons) Management
3 years
N201
BSc (Hons) Management with Industrial/Professional Experience
4 years
N203
BSc (Hons) Management (Accounting and Finance)
3 years
NN24
BSc (Hons) Management (Accounting and Finance) with Industrial/Professional Experience
4 years
NN25
BSc (Hons) Management (Human Resources)
3 years
N600
BSc (Hons) Management (Human Resources) with Industrial/Professional Experience
4 years
N601
BSc (Hons) Management (Innovation, Strategy and Entrepreneurship)
3 years
N200
BSc (Hons) Management (Innovation, Strategy and Entrepreneurship) with Industrial/Professional Experience
4 years
N202
BSc (Hons) Management (International Business Economics)
3 years
N246
BSc (Hons) Management (International Business Economics) with Industrial/Professional Experience
4 years
N248
BSc (Hons) Management (Marketing)
3 years
N2N5
BSc (Hons) Management (Marketing) with Industrial/Professional Experience
4 years
N2N6
Graduate employers look for candidates with work experience, practical skills and professionalism. All of our management degrees offer an optional work placement year. Put theory into practice, build your confidence, earn a salary and enhance your employability.
Previous BSc Management students have completed work placements at Airbus, Bank of England, Bentley, Boeing, Deloitte, Energizer, IBM, L’Oréal, Porsche, Unilever and Warner Bros. Entertainment amongst others.
Course highlights
Gain relevant work experience, develop a real-world attitude to business, earn a salary, gain increased responsibility and independence – there are so many reasons to include a placement alongside your degree.
Create a network of industry contacts and subsequent job opportunities, gain an insight into roles and employers enabling more informed career choices.
Choose a placement overseas to gain international experience.
97% of our placement students achieved a 1st or 2:1 degree in 2019.
Current placement students earn £17,500 (average salary, 2019-20) with some earning up to £33,600.
You will receive a significant tuition fee discount for the placement year. UK/EU students currently pay £1,850 and international students pay 20% of the standard international fee.
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What will I study?
Your first year of study will give you a good grounding in accounting, finance, management, work psychology, marketing, sociology and economics. This will help you to make informed choices about optional course units in later years.
Second-year course content is determined by whether you select a specialism or prefer to continue to study a broad range of topics. If you decide to specialise you will study 40 credits of core course units relating to your chosen specialism and 80 credits of optional course units to bring your total to 120 credits. If you do not wish to specialise, you will choose 120 credits of optional course units from across the management portfolio, which includes all of the core course units for each specialism alongside additional topics. You can select optional units from our University Language Centre and/or University College including the Manchester Leadership Programme.
If you successfully apply for a work placement this will take place between your second and final year. You will put theory into practice, develop transferable skills and gain an insight into your chosen profession.
In your final year, you will choose at least 60 credits of final-year options from your chosen specialist area (if you have one) and an additional 60 credits of optional course units to bring your total to 120 credits.
What do our students say?
“Management is a very broad and flexible course and it is possible to align it to your own interests. You will graduate with a huge network of talented people around the world.”
Daria Savilova, BSc (Hons) Management graduate, now a Senior Account Manager at Brightcom
“My placement has given me a better understanding of how a global company like Airbus operates; the various departments and the role they play in running day-to-day operations to meet annual goals and objectives.”
Muhammad Ali, BSc (Hons) Management student, placed as an Engineering Operations Co-ordinator at Airbus
Graduate career opportunities
Our graduates are highly sought after, with many going on to global blue-chip companies, investment banks and leading graduate management training schemes. Our courses offer great scope for you to shape your studies in line with your career aspirations.
Recent management graduates work for Amazon, Balfour Beatty, Bank of America, Conde Nast, Diageo, Goldman Sachs, Jaguar Land Rover, KPMG, L’Oreal, Microsoft and Unilever as affiliate managers, brand managers, audit associates, financial contractors, logistics consultants and supply chain analysts.
