Course overview

If you have a passion for business and a talent for organisation, you'll excel on this BA (Hons) Business Administration course. You'll develop your communication, problem solving, and management skills as you learn to productively manage an organisation's people, time and resources.

Get ready to succeed in the global business world by gaining knowledge in management, digital skills, marketing, and finance.

Flexible pathways make this course popular because you can focus on your interests. Technology, marketing, global business, critical thinking, and ethics are all options for customising your degree.

Assessments that mimic real life such as business reports, presentations, speed pitches, online quizzes, and case study analysis really benefit you. These provide hands-on learning for different styles.

Access a strong support network including our centre for academic skills enhancement (CASE) and personal tutors. This is useful for those adjusting to a new way of learning, particularly from abroad.

We have good connections with professional organisations and businesses. At our Business Academy, you can attend networking events and guest lectures where you'll have the chance to meet entrepreneurs-in-residence, business ambassadors, and industry leaders.

If you have an entrepreneurial spirit, enter the ‘Flare Ignite’ annual competition with a chance to win support, training and funding to help make your ideas a reality.

If you have a foundation degree or diploma, you can start this course at level 5. International students with a comparable qualification can enter at L5 or L6. You can also choose to study part-time for a duration of six years.

Professional accreditations

The course is benchmarked against the following quality frameworks for business educators.

• QAA benchmark statements for General Business and Management (2015)
• Frameworks for Higher Education Qualifications of UK Degree-Awarding Bodies (2014)
• SEEC Credit Level Descriptors for Further and Higher Education (2016)

Your future career

Get noticed in the global postgraduate job market with a diverse range of abilities supported by practical hands-on knowledge. Understand how to analyse and evaluate the management issues facing modern businesses.

Possible roles of employment include:

• Office administrator
• Human resources coordinator
• Business consultant
• Franchise manager
• Business development manager
• Sales executive

Graduates from the course (and its predecessor) have landed successful roles in BMW, OPPO, MultiVision Consulting, Ford, GlaxoSmithKline, The Doctors Laboratory, KPMG, Ocado and Tesco as well as gone on to run their own successful businesses.

This generalist business course provides you with a wide range of skills and knowledge that can be applied to various management and leadership roles. Enhance your learning by gaining work experience through placement and experiencing a new culture with the study abroad programme.