Business & Management (with pathways)

This popular degree will provide you with high quality and professionally relevant business education, designed to create the managers and business leaders of the future. You will be equipped with the skills, knowledge, and enhanced confidence to succeed in the private, public or third sector in line with your career ambitions or as an entrepreneur running your own business.

Pathways available:

• Entrepreneurship

• Finance

• Marketing

• Human Resource Management

• International Trade

• Law

• Marketing

• Sustainability

The degree allows for considerable flexibility to ensure that you are academically guided in your choice as to whether to graduate with a Business & Management - BA (Hons) degree, or a Business & Management - BA (Hons) degree with one of the available named pathways.

You will gain valuable real-world experience through undertaking a compulsory work placement module in the second year and have the option take a sandwich year in industry between years two and the final year. Past placements have included Deloitte, Welsh Water and the Wales Cyber Resilience Centre. And you will benefit from our extensive links with industry through guest lectures by Business experts, field trips and the opportunity to complete consultancy projects.

Opportunities for study abroad, both for a semester or a full year, are also fully supported on this degree.

Place of study: Llandaff Campus

Course length: 3-5 years full-time dependent upon taking foundation (see page 92) and/or year-long placement

Entry requirements: Typical offer: 112 UCAS Points Opportunities to study part of this degree in Welsh are available

The course structure develops from a compulsory first year, consisting of seven modules, to only two compulsory modules in the final year of study. This will enable you to direct your interests into a specialised pathway or specific set of option modules, whilst ensuring that you receive a sound understanding and appreciation of business and management. Typical core modules might include:

• Business in Action

• Ethical and Sustainable Business Practices

• Change Leadership

• You will find employment opportunities in a wide range of organisations, in both the public and private sector. Recent graduates have gone on to work for Lloyds Bank, the NHS, BAE Systems, Leicester Rugby, Gwent Police and Deloitte.

• Progression to specialist postgraduate programmes at the University are also available.