
BSc (Hons) Business Management and Entrepreneurship
Twickenham, United Kingdom
DURATION
3 Years
LANGUAGES
English
PACE
Full time
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TUITION FEES
GBP 9,250 / per year *
STUDY FORMAT
On-Campus
* home students; 14,850 GBP - international students
Introduction
Business Management and Entrepreneurship offers you the skills needed to develop new ideas, giving you everything needed to start your own successful business.
- Dual accreditation: BA (Hons) degree, plus Certificate in Management and Leadership (CMI)
- A course designed by academics and entrepreneurs
- The course will prepare you to become innovative, teach you how to manage new ideas and how to apply learning to creating a new business.
- Work placement opportunities integrated into the second and third years of the programme.
- Option to study with a placement year of paid work experience
Why St Mary's?
Business Management and Entrepreneurship was designed by an experienced team of academics, many of whom have experience working with entrepreneurs in a variety of sectors. The degree takes into account the skills and attitudes required by entrepreneurs as they prepare to launch their businesses.
There are numerous opportunities to undertake a work placement as part of your degree, giving you the chance to combine academic theory with a work environment. You will organise your placement with the help of the Workplace Learning Team and can choose to do it in a location that suits you.
Our Business Management and Entrepreneurship programme combines coverage of the key business areas from finance and marketing, through to strategy and human resources, with the opportunity to study more specialist subject areas, including business law, management consultancy and digital business.
St Mary’s is a beautiful campus university in London, with a friendly and professional atmosphere. Our West London location puts us near large companies, some of which supply, run and use the nearby Heathrow Airport. We are also surrounded by successful small businesses and business incubators where small businesses can be nurtured.
Program Outcome
Why study Business Management and Entrepreneurship?
New businesses are the lifeblood of most developed or developing economies. They’re needed by established companies, whether as a supplier offering exciting new inputs or as new ventures within the company.
Governments are very keen to stimulate the creation of new businesses and support them, as they are often key to developing regions or creating jobs in areas with high unemployment. Perhaps most importantly, you might want to start a business because you have a passion for creating something new.
To start and make a success out of your own business it’s not enough just to have a great idea, you need to manage it well. If this is your ambition, you’ll need to learn a wide range of entrepreneurial concepts and skills. Our Business Management and Entrepreneurship course will prepare you to become innovative, teach you how to manage new ideas and how to apply learning to creating a new business. We aim to give you practical experience through our extensive placement and mentoring programmes, which will equip you with hands-on skills and guidance from industry professionals.
Admissions
Curriculum
Course content
The course will teach you what makes a start-up business tick, including the financial and economic aspects of a new business, how to manage and motivate people and how to build an organisation for success.
Successful managers develop growth in a constructive manner; it requires an understanding of the changes taking place in the business world, society, consumer markets, financial issues, organisational strategy, global economies and digital technology. You will learn how all these factors affect start-up businesses and how to identify opportunities for new businesses.
You can get direct entrepreneurial experience during one of several work placements offered throughout the degree. You will also manage your own projects for individual assessments.
It is possible to gain professional accreditations and certificate exemptions by successfully completing selected core and optional Business Management and Entrepreneurship modules.
Professional bodies include:
- Chartered Management Institute (CMI)
- Chartered Institute of Management Accounting (CIMA)
- Chartered Institute of Public Finance and Accounting (CIPFA).
- The Chartered Institute of Marketing (CIM)
Year one
- Contemporary Marketing Practice
- Introduction to Management
- Organisational Behaviour
- Contemporary Business Issues
- Financial Decision Making
- Human Resource Management
Year two
- Principles of Entrepreneurship
- Fundamentals of Accounting
- Starting a Business Venture
- Research Methods in Business and Management
- Corporate Finance - Optional
- International Human Resource Management - Optional
- International Management - Optional
- Philosophy and Ethics for Business Decision Making - Optional
- Project Management and Practitioner Skills for Managers - Optional
- Business Economics - Optional
- Business Law - Optional
- Consumer and Commercial Law - Optional
- Contributing to the Community - Optional
- Experience and Employment in Business - Optional
- International Marketing and Supply Chain Logistics - Optional
- Leadership in Organisations - Optional
- Management Accounting - Optional
- Marketing Strategy and Implementation - Optional
- Behavioural Economics - Optional
Year three
- Research Project
- Independent Study
- Entrepreneurship in Context
- Social Enterprise
- Building a Start-up Business - Optional
- Corporate Governance and Social Responsibility - Optional
- Digital Business - Optional
- Employment Law - Optional
- The Enterprising Workplace - Optional
- Financial Markets and Institutions - Optional
- International Entrepreneurship Project - Optional
- Law of International Trade - Optional
- Management of Organisational Change - Optional
- Charity Management - Optional
- International Financial Reporting - Optional
- International Strategic Management - Optional
- Management Consultancy Project - Optional
- Managing in the Workplace - Optional
- Stock Market Investment - Optional
- Contemporary Issues in Marketing - Optional
- Marketing Consultancy Project - Optional
Career Opportunities
You will develop a wide range of employment skills in communication, presentation, analysis, quantification, research techniques, teamwork and working to deadlines. This is designed to enhance your employability portfolio and your ability to develop an enterprise.
Beyond the setting up of your own business, career opportunities for graduates include banking, insurance, law and business consultancy, as well as a wide variety of specialist and generalist management posts in leisure and sport, marketing and human resources.
The Careers Service has more information on careers and postgraduate study options available to Business Management and Entrepreneurship students who have started their studies at St Mary’s.
Program Tuition Fee
Scholarships and Funding
A range of scholarships and bursaries are available to new undergraduate students. This includes:
- St Mary's bursary
- Vice-Chancellor's Excellence scholarship
- Care leavers' bursary
- International student scholarships
- Sports scholarships
- Sports coaching bursary
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Program Admission Requirements
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