BA (Hons) Business Management
Flic en Flac, Mauritius
DURATION
3 Years
LANGUAGES
English
PACE
Full time
APPLICATION DEADLINE
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EARLIEST START DATE
Feb 2025
TUITION FEES
GBP 5,200
STUDY FORMAT
On-Campus
Why study at Middlesex University Mauritius
Middlesex University Mauritius Campus offers a gateway to global prospects through a UK degree. Our campus in Mauritius blends rigorous academic standards with a culturally immersive environment, positioning graduates uniquely within the competitive international arena. Renowned for providing a world-class learning experience, internationally qualified faculty members guide students through state-of-the-art teaching spaces, fostering engagement, collaboration, and innovation. The academic achievements of our graduates underscore this commitment to excellence; for instance, in 2023, 73% attained a good award (First Class and Upper Second Class). We are committed to accessibility, offering affordable tuition fees that make quality education attainable for all. International graduates benefit from opportunities such as the Young Professional Visa, which facilitates post-graduation employment prospects. Moreover, Mauritius, renowned for its welcoming atmosphere, safety, and robust connectivity, boasts a well-developed air network and data infrastructure, ensuring a seamless experience for students from around the world.
We align our programmes with the demands of international employers, with over 95% of our graduates securing full-time employment or pursuing further studies within six months of graduation. Our International Foundation Programme (IFP) serves as an ideal pathway for students seeking a smooth transition into their undergraduate studies, equipping students with essential academic skills, and preparing them for success in their undergraduate studies. Accredited by Middlesex University (UK) and the Mauritian Higher Education Commission, our undergraduate programmes offer the opportunity to obtain a UK Honours degree in just three years, opening doors to many global opportunities or direct entry into our Master's programmes. Our postgraduate offerings, characterized by flexible delivery modes, including evening classes and hybrid teaching, cater to professionals seeking career advancement and skill enhancement, ensuring that every student's educational journey is marked by excellence and relevance.
Introduction
This three-year degree programme allows students to build on a promising career that focuses on key management skills such as people management, marketing, decision-making and finance. It is specifically designed to prepare the students prepare with the essential skills required to compete in the advanced world of business and technology.
Overview - Why Sign Up?
The Business Management degree provides tremendous opportunities where students shall be equipped with both theoretical and practical exposures there by preparing them to join a highly professional, developed and advanced commercial environment.
This degree has long been recognised to be one of the key elements for generating managerial expertise within both the public sector and the private sector internationally. Interestingly, for students seeking to become successful entrepreneurs and working for third sector organisations, this Business Management degree shall allow them to do so via offering a variety of economic and social business skills from its broad career options.
Following the ongoing trend from the competitive business world and the top skills that employers are looking for within graduates, our programme has been built in such a way that it helps students to build on their critical thinking abilities and equip them to make sound decisions via evidence-based management. Supported by expert tutors who bring their long-term professional experience to their teaching practices, students shall be able to explore the key functions that underpin business success.
Graduates of the degree programme shall be equipped with the professional, employable and marketable skills and attributes such as:
- Complex problem-solving skills
- Critical thinking skills
- Creative thinking skills
- Critical writing skills
- People Management skills and Coordination skills via working effectively in teams
- Effective communication skills
- Effective presentation skills
- Basic Statistical skills
- Technical computing skills
- Business coupled with information skills
Course Highlights
- From the very first day of arrival, all new students from the Business School are formed into separate groups to participate in a variety of activities supported by student ambassadors or senior students. These activities such as teamwork and participation in quizzes allow students to get to know fellow students on their programme as well as their programme coordinator, tutor and other staff in their subject area. A whole week induction aims to promote diversity among all local and international students. This week also allows the students to gain insights about their future academic and university life.
- Students during their first year are exposed to different workshops in addition to their modules taught onto their programme. These workshops are conducted by a dedicated team from the Learning Resource Centre there by helping students to master good writing skills and research skills.
- Students during different years of their study across the Business Programme are also given the opportunities to attend the workshops and job fair organised by the employability centre. From the very first year, students are taught to prepare and write good curriculum vitae and they are exposed to the job market and current trends. Students are also given the opportunity to voice out their career choice followed by a peer evaluation and a mentor.
- Year 1, Year 2 and Year 3 students across the Business School have several opportunities to take part in both local and international competitions supported and sponsored by our partners; local government authorities and reputed firms from the private sector.
- Students across their programme are made to link theoretical underpinnings to real time scenarios via watching documentaries and recorded business reviews to gain better insights of the actual events taking place in the world of business. Case studies are also given for nearly all modules across all levels of study for students to undertake the role of managers and be exposed to the world of business.
- Opportunities are granted to students to take their leadership roles during their very first year where students become part of students’ voice groups and therefore bring their opinion forward in regard to their academic issues as well as that of the campus facilities being offered to them.
- Across the three levels of study under the BA (Hons) Business Management programme, students shall be introduced to the world of ethics and academic integrity there by leading them to become more responsible and ethical as the future citizens.
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Scholarships and Funding
You can also receive financial support to help with the cost of your studies that is based on your personal circumstances. Scholarships recognise your academic excellence and other achievements and, unlike a loan, you don't have to pay them back.
Scholarships can reduce your tuition fees or help pay your living expenses. You are only eligible to receive one scholarship award from Middlesex University.
Curriculum
Year 1
- Financial Concepts of Business (30 credits) – Compulsory
- Quantitative Methods for Business (30 credits) – Compulsory
- Management Concepts (15 credits) – Compulsory
- People Management (15 credits) – Compulsory
- Marketing Theory and Practice (30 credits) – Compulsory
Year 2
- Operations Management (30 credits) – Compulsory
- Business Environment (15 credits) – Compulsory
- Management Information Systems (15 credits) – Compulsory
- Principles of Innovation and Entrepreneurship (15 credits) – Compulsory
- Organisational Behaviour (15 credits) – Compulsory
- Human Resource Management in Practice (30 credits) – Optional
- Trade and International Business (30 credits) – Optional
- Business Law (30 credits) – Optional
- Accounting and Finance for Business (30 credits) – Optional
Year 3
- Workforce Management (15 credits) – Compulsory
- Professional Communication (15 credits) – Compulsory
- Strategic Management (30 credits) – Compulsory
- Business Start-Up (30 credits) – Optional
- Business Game (30 credits) – Optional
- Research Project (30 credits) – Optional
- Principles of Project Management (30 credits) – Optional
- Global Supply Chain Management (30 credits) – Optional
- Innovation Management (30 credits) – Optional
- Consulting to Organisations (30 credits) – Optional
- Leadership (15 credits) – Optional
- Coaching and Mentoring (15 credits) – Optional
- Business Ethics (15 credits) – Optional
- Sustainable Business (15 credits) – Optional
- Strategic Management Accounting (15 credits) – Optional
- Entrepreneurial Finance (15 credits) – Optional
- Organisational Change (15 credits) – Optional
- Business Analytics (15 credits) – Optional
- Equality Diversity and Inclusion (15 credits) – Optional
Program Outcome
Companies and organisations from the world of business require graduates who have expert business knowledge and can also demonstrate analytical and problem-solving skills, with the professional acumen to deal with challenges in a fast-paced corporate world. Students will have the opportunity to develop key business knowledge, skills and experience in order to excel in a management career.
You will study the operations of organisations: their functions, structure, management, models and techniques used to achieve successful results. As earlier highlighted, within the 2nd and 3rd year of study, you will take one of our specialist pathways, choosing from Human Resource Management, Marketing, and Finance, Project Management, Supply Chain and Logistics, or Innovation and Entrepreneurship.
What will you gain
You will learn to work effectively in teams and be able to present and communicate business management ideas with confidence. We also ensure you develop specialist knowledge in:
- Stakeholders: their expectations and behaviour
- The environment of business and its impact on strategy
- Design, production and distribution of products and services
- Business resources: acquisition, application and control
- Business process: planning, improvement and control.
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Career Opportunities
This degree will leave you ideally placed to start a career in a wide variety of roles including Operations Manager, HR Consultant, Trainee Manager, Investment Banker, Sales Manager, Analyst and other related opportunities dependent on your chosen specialization. You could be working in a range of reputed industrial, commercial and third sector organisations.