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Bachelor of Science (with Honours) - BSc (Hons)
Canterbury
Full Time
Sep 2026
4 Year
**Are you ready to make an impact in the world of business and become a leader of the 21st century? Gain the skills, knowledge, and confidence to lead, innovate, and make an impact in today’s fast-paced global business landscape.**
Our BSc Business Management is designed to empower you to become innovators, and creative problem-solvers. It will help you to develop skills and competencies to take charge and make an impact in a complex, challenging, fast paced and ever evolving global business environment. Whether your dream is to thrive in a corporate career, start your own successful business, or drive change in organisations, this course will equip you for success in any industry worldwide.
Our course combines academic excellence with real-world experience. You will benefit from internships, business projects, and our extensive networks with industry leaders, giving you a head start in your career. Connect with top professionals, expand your career opportunities, and become part of a dynamic, enterprising community that supports your ambitions.
With versatile skills and practical experience, you will be ready for opportunities and challenges in any industry, anywhere in the world. Join us on this exciting journey to make you an influential leader that businesses need!
On the foundation year you'll learn about key areas of business and will develop the study skills and self-confidence needed to study at degree level.
**Location**
This course is run at our Canterbury Campus in Kent. Canterbury is just 50 miles south-east of London and less than an hour by high-speed train from St Pancras. Located on a UNESCO World Heritage Site the campus offers state-of-the-art buildings, right in the centre of a vibrant and world-famous cathedral city. You’ll benefit from a campus with excellent learning and teaching resources, music venues, a superb sports centre, a well-stocked bookshop and plenty of coffee bars and places to eat. A short walk away is Augustine House our award-winning library and home to a vast range of learning resources and student support teams.
Foundation Year module.
This module introduces the fundamental concepts of the business world, including business structures, and functions in organisations. You will explore the internal and external factors influencing business operations and decision-making. The module also covers foundation knowledge of essential topics such as marketing, finance, economics, human resources, management and leadership, ethics and entrepreneurship. By the end of the module, you will have gained a foundational understanding of how businesses operate and their role in the economy and society.
Foundation Year module.
This module is designed to develop your essential knowledge and skills for both your university studies and future career. Throughout the module you will develop your skills in communication, goal setting, time management, problem solving, research, and academic skills, whilst also embedding a focus on well-being. You will explore practical tools such as MS Office and AI technologies, including ChatGPT, to enrich your learning experience and strengthen your professional skills. By the end of the module you will have developed key competencies to prepare you to succeed throughout your university journey and beyond.
Foundation Year module.
This module will equip you with the writing, digital, and communication skills essential for many careers that require innovative and interdisciplinary approaches to solving global challenges in a courageous way (e.g., climate change, human rights, population growth, emerging technologies, diseases, etc.). You will learn how to research, evidence, and communicate data and technical information to develop solutions that are both innovative and socially responsible. Through varied examples and case studies, you will gain an applied understanding of how business, engineering, science, and social science research methods can be creatively integrated to address real-world problems. You will collaborate with others to solve issues that are familiar to your discipline (business, computing, engineering, science, and social science) and use appropriate tools (verbal, visual, numerical, digital) to creatively communicate the findings of your inquiry. This module will provide you with a foundation in understanding interdisciplinary theory, research skills, case study analysis, critical thinking, and problem solving.
Foundation Year module.
This module will help you discover where you fit into the big picture of both university life and the wider world. You'll be introduced to the differences between university, school, and workplace training. Here, you will have the opportunity to extend and deepen your understanding in ways that are both disciplined and limitless. Through a combination of lectures, seminars, and guided online learning, you'll explore the relationship between your studies and the world around you. You will examine how various disciplines, including your own, approach contemporary challenges such as building sustainable futures and managing the opportunities and risks of Artificial Intelligence.
Foundation Year module.
These are bite size modules designed to help you settle in and obtain core skills such as critical thinking, digital literacy, and sustainability. You’ll engage with contemporary, thought-provoking topics and issues whilst maximising your chance of success right from the start of your studies.
This module will provide you with a strong foundation in business management while encouraging critical thinking and developing a future-oriented mindset. It will give you essential knowledge and skills to navigate the complexities of the business world and will build the foundation for exploring business management in depth both in local and global context.
This module will provide you with a strong foundation in the critical financial, economic, and technological aspects of business. You will develop the skills needed to improve the quality of business decisions in an increasingly complex and technology-driven world. Finance and economics are fascinating disciplines that are relevant to everyone and a joy to study. The knowledge that you will gain on this module is not only a great tool to have for the sake of itself, but it will also help you analyse the world creatively in a new light, which is invaluable in today’s business environment. We will also integrate the use of artificial intelligence (AI) and show you how you can analyse financial data, investigate economic trends, and make data-driven decisions using cutting-edge technologies.
This module will provide you with an in-depth exploration of core business functions and their critical role in organizational success. You will develop an understanding of how different departments operate, interact, and contribute to overall business performance. You will also learn about business operations, focusing on efficiency, productivity, and value creation in a competitive environment.
This module will introduce you to organizational behaviour, including key theories and themes relevant to modern and social organizations. You will develop knowledge and skills in managing and leading others, alongside an understanding of the contextual environments and diverse perspectives applicable to how organizations work.
These are bite size modules designed to help you settle in and obtain core skills such as critical thinking, digital literacy, and sustainability. You’ll engage with contemporary, thought-provoking topics and issues whilst maximising your chance of success right from the start of your studies.
In today's fast-evolving business landscape, effective leadership and management are essential for organizational success. This module explores modern approaches to managing and leading organizations. It considers contemporary challenges such as globalization, digital transformation, diversity, and sustainability. You will gain an in-depth understanding of leadership theories, strategic decision-making, organizational culture, and change management. Through case studies, interactive discussions, and real world applications, you will develop the critical skills needed to lead organizations effectively in the 21st century
This module will foster engagement and inclusivity by adopting an applied and collaborative approach to project management of complex projects applicable to a variety of business settings. You will utilise, analyse and apply frameworks and theories to real-world projects, blending theory and practice. Throughout the module, you will consider the reality of sustainable and ethical project management and its relevance to the contemporary, and future commercial environments.
This module will equip you with essential knowledge and skills to build your confidence in being able to carry out innovative business research. You will learn about a range of research methodologies and associated skills such as planning for business research, research methodology and design, data collection methods, data analysis and report writing. You will also develop skills in being able to critically evaluate business ideas and apply this knowledge in developing your own industry responsive research.
These modules recognise the value of integrating knowledge, methods, and perspectives from other disciplines and use this approach to address a range of opportunities and challenges in contexts of varying complexity.
These modules help broaden your educational experience and allow you to work and collaborate with students studying other subjects.
In your second year you will complete a Client Project or an Innovation Challenge. Each of these modules are worth 30 credits and will give you the opportunity to gain real-world experience as you practise client relations through a collaborative project.
This is an innovative and industry-responsive module designed to equip you with the entrepreneurial mindset and practical skills needed to identify opportunities, create value, and launch impactful ventures. Throughout the module you will work collaboratively with others (peers, entrepreneurs, industry professionals) to explore commercialisation possibilities, generate innovative ideas, apply creativity and design thinking. You will learn about, and draw upon a range of theories, tools and frameworks that will help you develop a bold, market-ready and sustainable new venture. Throughout your learning experience, you will be empowered to challenge conventional thinking, embrace uncertainty, and drive real change in the dynamic world of business.
This module is centred around strategic and financial planning techniques, building upon the practice of effective strategic and financial management used by researchers and practitioners. This module will provide you with an understanding of the impact in the business environment and organisational resources (both human and material) in relation to strategic and financial planning and choice. This in turn, will enable you to consider strategic and financial alternatives, evaluate their suitability and identify the complex issues involved in designing, implementing strategy, and managing strategic change.
This module will provide you with opportunities to learn and unleash your potential for extraordinary impact on business for both society and the environment. You will learn about the important moral issues arising in various business contexts and critically reflect upon the moral, social, environmental, and economic contexts where problems could occur. You will learn about and deepen your knowledge of ethical theories and relevant business concepts, and their impact on real-world issues. You will also reflect upon, and explore your own values and responses to the hard moral choices of the business world.
This modules provides you the opportunity to conduct your own research in a relevant business area informed by theoretical, empirical and industry responsive material. You will allocated a research supervisor who will support you in enhancing your analytic skills and ability to plan, define, design and conduct your business research project. Throughout this module you will put into action all the acquired knowledge and skills from your studies, enabling you to further consolidate these knowledge and skills in preparation for your future career.
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