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Bachelor of Science (with Honours) - BSc (Hons)
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Full Time
Sep 2026
3 Year
BSc Business Management and Economics will give you in-depth knowledge of organisations and their environments, including their relationships to society. You will explore key theories and concepts in economics and their application in international business. You will gain a solid understanding of areas such as managing people, operations, logistics, marketing and business ethics. Additionally, you will learn how businesses can operate effectively in a multicultural environment. In readiness for your future career, you will learn an overview of business organisations in a global context and explore key aspects of business management such as finance, marketing and data analysis. You will have the opportunity to practise these skills through problem-based activities and scenarios and will have the opportunity to study abroad. You will finish the course confident in your personal values, with the knowledge and experience to solve business problems ethically, and an excellent understanding of the wider economy.
Business Readiness is a module and an employability framework that underpins our undergraduate business degrees from Roehampton Business School. It maps skills and competencies against all modules.
This module is designed to introduce you to the essential concepts and skills used in business problem solving. Excel is used to identify and interpret quantitative data to solve a range of problems, including customer satisfaction, personal finance issues, business modelling, quality assurance, recruitment issues and supply chain problems. The emphasis is on case studies drawn from a bank of case studies relating to real business situations.
This module aims to provide students with an introduction to different types of business organisations and the environments that they operate within. The module will mainly focus on the factors affecting businesses that are located in advanced economies. Therefore, much of the analysis and discussion will centre around issues that relate to industrial structure, international trade and technological change. Although factors affecting businesses in developing countries/emerging economies will be covered to a certain extent, there will be less of a focus on businesses operating in such environments. Similarly, economic, financial and technological influences on organisations will be emphasized, although political, social, cultural, legal and environmental factors will also be covered through an introduction to PESTLE analysis.
This module will help you to develop your understanding of self and is your first stepping stone to the personal and professional development required of all students who wish to study business and management. The module has been designed to enable you to identify your personal strengths and weaknesses through a process of self-assessment and reflection. You will be able to identify your personal values, preferred learning styles, develop your understanding of issues such as cultural and emotional intelligence and be supported to enhance your interpersonal skills. This process of self-assessment and reflection will in turn develop your independent thinking, build your confidence in your own potential, and increase your drive to achieve your management potential.
This module will introduce you to the essential knowledge and skills in Accounting and Finance that you will need as a practicing manager. We assume that you are new to the subject and that you are a general business learner ? not an accounting specialist. The module will develop your learning in stages. We?ll start from familiar ideas about money and business, move through internal Accounting issues like budgets then show you the key ideas in financial statements. Finally we will give you an overview of the sources and uses of Finance required for a sustainable organisation. These will cover for-profit and not-for-profit as well as public service contexts. Along the way, you will meet important ideas around information systems for planning, controlling and making financial decisions as well as understanding the basics of risk. A grasp of these matters financial is essential to your employability in the modern world whether in a company or starting your own business. And as you learn, the module will demystify Accounting and Finance, improve your confidence in these areas and equip you with knowledge and skills to increase your ability to understand business.
This module employs a problem-based learning approach in which learning prepares you to develop intellectual and personal skills in analysing and problem-solving business and management challenges. This module is intended to develop your ability to understand the main features of managing an organisation, considering various aspects of management and leadership whilst applying commercial acumen. Through the lectures, seminars and work workshops, in addition to the supported learning materials and wider reading, you will be introduced to academic concepts enabling them to apply management theory to organisational practice. Through the learning and assessment strategy, you will be encouraged to develop your knowledge and skills in problem - solving and apply this to your role as an aspiring manager. This will include engagement with practicing managers.
This module is designed to introduce you to the essential concepts and skills used in modern marketing management. An organisation?s customers represent one of its most important assets and marketing is about identifying and satisfying customers? needs and wants and responding by providing appropriate products and services.
Business Readiness is a module and an employability framework that underpins our undergraduate business degrees from Roehampton Business School. It maps skills and competencies against all modules.
In this module, the learning outcomes are: Knowledge outcome - You will be able to develop understandings of the nature and impact of cultural differences at a personal and a business level; Intellectual/transferable skills outcome - You will be able to apply cross-cultural management techniques to a diverse range of issues and develop mindfulness of yourself and others in order to operate effectively and sensitively within cross-cultural teams.
In this module, the learning outcomes are: Knowledge outcome - You will be able to develop your understandings of international economics and how these influence society and organisations, strategies and decision-making; Intellectual/transferable skills outcome - You will be able to consider a complex international economics issue, theorise impacts for decision-making and propose feasible alternatives for consideration.
In this module, the learning outcomes are: Knowledge outcome - You will be able to develop your capacity to analyse the economic environments in which business entities operate and how managerial decisions can vary under different constraints; Intellectual/transferable skills outcome - You will be able to consider and apply a complex economic theory to the ?real world? behaviour of firms.
In this module, the learning outcomes are: Knowledge outcome - You will be able to develop understandings of how to effectively manage people as well as your own employability and career in organisations; Intellectual/transferable skills outcome - You will be able to: analyse own strengths and weaknesses in relation to organisational employment opportunities and becoming business ready; apply mindfulness of yourself and others in order to operate effectively and sensitively within cross-cultural teams and to present the findings of an investigation in a professional manner through a variety of media in an acceptable format.
Module learning outcomes 1. Knowledge outcome - You will be able to develop understanding of the concepts and techniques of project management and how they relate to personal and 2. Intellectual/transferable skills outcome - You will be able to apply the principles of project management to the planned development and delivery of business initiatives (e.g. new products, services or event). How the module develops Business Readiness: I can understand the concepts, principles and techniques of project management and am able to critique the human, financial, and business implications of project planning options and the decision- making processes in complex and uncertain situations. I can demonstrate knowledge, understanding, and some ability to apply relevant tools and techniques to manage projects. I have had the opportunity to engage with practitioners who manage organisational projects.
Module learning outcomes: 1. Knowledge outcome - You will be able to develop your understandings of operations, logistics and SCM in organisations and how these contribute to organisational success. 2. Intellectual/transferable skills outcome - You will be able to consider a complex scenario related to operations, logistics and SCM and apply quantitative or qualitative techniques to contribute to its solution.
Business Readiness is a module and an employability framework that underpins our undergraduate business degrees from Roehampton Business School. It maps skills and competencies against all modules.
In this module, the learning outcomes are: Knowledge outcome - You will be able to develop an in depth knowledge of corporate strategy within the context of the organisation's markets and commercial sustainability; Intellectual/transferable skills outcome - You will be able to utilise a wide range of frameworks and techniques to the analysis of complex business situations to inform corporate strategy; and demonstrate criticality (independent thinking) in the evaluation and synthesis of information. You will be able to present the findings of your analysis in an academic style.
In this module, the learning outcomes are: Knowledge outcome - You will be able to understand the importance of individual and organisational ethical and social responsibility; Intellectual/transferable skills outcome - You will be able to apply ethical decision making and responsible management to a range of situations and demonstrate criticality (independent thinking) in the evaluation and synthesis of information relating to the discipline or its practice. You will be able to present the findings of your analysis in a professional or academic style.
In this module, the learning outcomes are: Knowledge outcome - You will understand how standard economic principles can be applied to the analysis of labour market behaviour and be able to critique the main features of contemporary labour markets; Intellectual/transferable skills outcome - You will be able to interpret and critique relevant labour market data and empirical findings and recommend appropriate policy responses for different labour market problems.
In this module, the learning outcomes are: Knowledge outcome - You will be able to understand how the monetary system functions in capitalist economies and how portfolio theory can be applied to financial investment decisions; Intellectual/transferable skills outcome - You will be able to evaluate investment criteria and undertake research on portfolio performance in a practical setting.
112-128 Grades/points required
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