Business Administration (Top Up) - BA (Hons)
Birmingham City University
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OverviewWant to top up your business degree? Our BA (Hons) Business Administration (Top-Up) course allows you learn administration skills from industry experienced lecturers.This flexible and wide-ranging course allows you to tailor your studies to your interests, from eBusiness, to Continuous Innovation. With a number of options to choose from, you’ll be able to follow a path that will lead to your future career, with previous students progressing into roles with high-profile businesses such ...Read more

Overview
Want to top up your business degree? Our BA (Hons) Business Administration (Top-Up) course allows you learn administration skills from industry experienced lecturers.
This flexible and wide-ranging course allows you to tailor your studies to your interests, from eBusiness, to Continuous Innovation. With a number of options to choose from, you’ll be able to follow a path that will lead to your future career, with previous students progressing into roles with high-profile businesses such as N Power and Zurich. The international focus of the course is derived through a variety of means including the student body, the teaching team and the use of international teaching materials.
Our Business Administration (Top up) course gives you the chance to broaden your knowledge of general business administration within the global business environment. We’ll teach you to apply your knowledge to real business scenarios, helping you to progress into employment, having already dealt with many situations you find in the working world.
Employability
Enhancing your employability skills
Our emphasis is always on employability and ensuring that you develop the skills and experience that employers’ value. Our expert staff will tutor you through a huge range of business skills and theory that will prepare you for a career in many areas of business and our links with industry ensure that we know what employers are looking for and we tailor our teaching accordingly.
When you study for a top-up degree you’ll be learning about the areas you want to be employed in. We teach you to apply knowledge, theory and concepts to real-life scenarios and businesses, and help to make sure you’re employable all over the globe too. You’ll learn about international business strategy, the environments businesses operate in all over the world and global management issues.
Your skills can be applied to many different businesses large and small, local and worldwide. You’ll gain valuable experience through our Employability Challenge Weeks, as well as our Leadership Challenge programme. Both give you the chance to apply your skills to innovative and exciting projects, industry talks and workshops. You’ll also receive guidance on how to complete application forms and how to write effective CVs.

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78/279
CUG Subject Ranking
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105th
CUG Ranking
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103rd

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£9,535 per year

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£9,535 per year

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£9,535 per year

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Students from Scotland

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£9,535 per year

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Students from Wales

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£9,535 per year

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Students from Northern Ireland

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£17,690 per year

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£17,690 per year

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Birmingham City University
Birmingham City University , Birmingham

Birmingham City University (BCU) is a large and diverse institution, which places a firm focus on providing innovative teaching...

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Birmingham City University
Cardigan Street Birmingham B4 7BD United Kingdom
Nearest train station: Birmingham Moor Street  0.4 miles away
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