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Bachelor of Business (Honours) (Ab Initio) (Part-Time)
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Fee: Funded under the Part Time Fee Scheme (SUSI)
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Campus: Midlands Campus
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Years: 5
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Status: Register Your Interest
Course Overview
The aim of the Bachelor of Business is to give learners an opportunity to acquire an integrated understanding of the operation and strategy of Business Management and to develop transferable and transversal skills. The programme is designed to offer the learner an opportunity to gain a detailed knowledge of the theories and effective practice of business management which the learner can use in a wide variety of management and leadership roles to improve organisational and business efficiencies and effectiveness.
This programme will be delivered in a blended and part time through an innovative and interactive online learning environment. It utilises highly participatory learning and teaching pedagogies. The flexibility and agility of this programme, will allow learners to specialise in a pathway most suited to their skills, career aspirations, and employer needs while undertaking core modules that will give them the necessary skills and competencies which are required in a variety of quality and lean management roles
This programme contains three courses :
| TITLE | CODE | AWARD | ECTS Year 1 | ECTS Year 2 | ECTS Year 3 | ECTS Year 4 | ECTS Year 5 | TOTAL ECTS | TOTAL DURATION (Years) |
| Higher Certificate in Business (Level 6) (2.5 years) | AL_BSTDA_6FS | Higher Certificate in Business | 50 | 50 | 20 | – | – | 120 | 2.5 (Total Learning Time 2.5 Years) |
| Bachelor of Business (Level 7, Add-on)(1.5 years) | AL_BSTD7_7FS | Ordinary Degree | 30 | 30 | – | – | – | 60 | 1.5 (Total Learning Time 4 Years) |
| Bachelor of Business (Honours) (Level 8, Add-on) (1.5 years) | AL_BSTDA_8FS | B.B.S (Hons) | 50 | 50 | 50 | 50 | 40 | 240 | (1.5 ) (Total Learning Time 5 Years) |
Contact Details
Student Advisors Midlands
Flexible Learning Team
What are the entry requirements?
Entry Requirements for Year 1 of the programme
Mature applicants (i.e. over 23 years)
or Leaving Certificate Grade 06 at Ordinary Level in five subjects in the Leaving Certificate. Two of these subjects must be Mathematics and a language (English or Irish)
or QQI Level 5 Full award with a minimum of eight modules
or Recognition of Prior Learning (APL/APEL).
Programme Overview
| Bachelor of Business(ab initio) (level 8) | ||
| Year 1 | SEM 1 | Leadership and Management Development |
| SEM 1 | Human Resources and Developing People | |
| SEM 2 | Operations, Logistics and Supply Chain Management | |
| SEM 2 | Financial Accounting | |
| SEM 2 | Applied Practice 1 Personal and Professional Context | |
| Year 2 | SEM 1 | Customer Service and Value |
| SEM 1 | Business Mathematics and Computer Applications | |
| SEM 2 | Micro and Macro Economics | |
| SEM 2 | Business and Contract Law | |
| SEM 2 | Management Accounting | |
| YEAR 3 | SEM 1 | Applied Practice 2 Organisational Alignment |
| SEM 1 | Marketing Management in a Digital Age | |
| SEM 2 | Business Information Systems | |
| SEM 2 | Managerial Finance | |
| SEM 2 | Company Law and Regulatory Environment | |
| Year 4 | SEM 1 | Corporate Reporting |
| SEM 1 | Business Modelling and Enterprise | |
| SEM 1 | Applied Practice 3 – Applied Human Resource Management | |
| SEM 2 | Financial Performance Management | |
| SEM 2 | Strategic Marketing | |
| Year 5 | SEM 1 | Decision Making and Business Analytics |
| SEM 1 | Applied Practice 4 – Crafting and Executing Strategy | |
| SEM 2 | Business Ethics and Sustainability | |
| SEM 2 | Managing People and Organisational Change | |
Entry Requirements for Year 1 of the programme
Mature applicants (i.e. over 23 years)
or Leaving Certificate Grade 06 at Ordinary Level in five subjects in the Leaving Certificate. Two of these subjects must be Mathematics and a language (English or Irish)
or QQI Level 5 Full award with a minimum of eight modules
or Recognition of Prior Learning (APL/APEL).
This is a five year degree programme.
Students may chose to exit at various stages of this degree programme with the following exit awards
- Higher Certificate
- Bachelor of Business level 7 Ordinary degree
This programme will be delivered in a blended format. During each teaching semester, lectures will be delivered online on Monday and Wednesday from 6.30pm to 10pm with four (4) Saturday lectures 9am to 1pm. Student will be required to attend these Saturday lectures in person and which will be delivered in either the TUS Midlands campus, Athlone and or designated Learning Gate locations. The Learning Gate locations will be selected based on the geographical spread of registered students and proximity to designated Learning Gate locations.
TUS Learning Gates are located in a large number of remote Working Hubs in various parts of the country. The Learning Gates provide an opportunity for TUS students to meet, collaborate and attend face to face lectures/facilitated learning workshops.
Induction
Induction for the September 2024 programmes takes place on Saturday 7 September 2024 from 9.00am to 1.00pm. This Student Induction will take place online.
In advance, you will be required to review Pre-Induction reading material, available to you on https://tus.ie/flexible.
During Induction, you will be given the opportunity to:
– Meet your programme lecturers, programme co-ordinator and students
– Overview of the programme handbook, programme’s modules, assessments and delivery timetable
– Introduction to TUS learning systems including MS Office, Zoom, Moodle etc
– Outline of the learning supports available to you during the programme
This programme is funded under the Part Time Fee Scheme (SUSI) for Selected Undergraduate Programmes. For more information on this scheme see https://www.irishstatutebook.ie/eli/2024/si/370/made/en/pdf
This is a Government Funded Programme.
This programme is only open to successful applicants for SUSI funding for this particular programme
Students will be required to pay a deposit of €500 on registration, which will be returned to the student on approval of SUSI funding for the student and the student’s active engagement during the first four(4) weeks of the programme.
For more information on funding and how to apply see https://www.susi.ie/funding-for-part-time-undergraduate-courses/
Five Years – Exit routes available at level 6 and level 7, see progression for more info.
Graduates will be able to advance their careers in their current and future roles in their organisations by acquiring the requisite skills, knowledge and competencies of business management to contribute to organisational and business efficiencies and effectiveness. It will give the student the opportunity to up-skill or re-skill in this business management domain area, acquiring new domain area and transferrable skills that are industry relevant.
Students have the option to graduate with a Higher Certificate, Ordinary Degree or Honours degree as exemplified in the table below:
| TITLE | CODE | AWARD | ECTS Year 1 | ECTS Year 2 | ECTS Year 3 | ECTS Year 4 | ECTS Year 5 | TOTAL ECTS | TOTAL DURATION |
| Higher Certificate in Business (Level 6) (2.5 years) | AL_BSTDA_6FS | Higher Certificate in Business | 50 | 50 | 20 | – | – | 120 | 2.5 |
| Bachelor of Business (Level 7, Add-on)(1.5 years) | AL_BSTD7_7FS | Ordinary Degree | 30 | 30 | – | – | – | 60 | 2 |
| Higher Certificate in Business (Level 6) (2.5 years) | AL_BSTDA_6FS | Higher Certificate in Business | 50 | 50 | 20 | – | – | 120 | 2.5 |
It is recommended that you should complete the following steps
- Check that you meet the SUSI qualifying criteria
- Apply to SUSI for funding for your programme of choice
- Register your Interest with TUS for your programme of choice, to be completed on/before 26th Aug 2024
- Apply to TUS by Registering your Interest
Please note that this programme will NOT proceed during this academic year if there are not sufficient numbers of registered students. In advance of the proposed start date of this programme in Sept 2024, you will receive regular updates from TUS as to whether this programme will proceed in Sept 2024.
- Apply to SUSI for funding https://www.susi.ie/funding-for-part-time-undergraduate-courses/
Application Deadline
Applications are now open
Register your Interest by 26th Aug 2024