Bachelor of Business (Year 3) (L7, 60 ECTS)

Flexibility is key across our range of highly successful Business programmes. This affords you the option to be as specialised or generalist as you wish while acquiring a comprehensive knowledge and understanding of the modern business world. You may decide to specialise in an area such as marketing, finance, IT or management or to follow a generalist pathway covering the wide range of business subjects.

This programme delivers business knowledge and skills which form the basis for a career in industry, commerce or the public service. You will gain an understanding of the functional areas of business and of the factors which influence business success. On graduation, you should be able to use your knowledge and skills to solve technical and human problems in a business/commercial context. You will also learn how effective interpersonal relations at work contribute to the public image of an organisation and to its progress.

This course will open up a range of opportunities in terms of your future career direction. Combining studies within the core business disciplines, you will be provided with an opportunity to consolidate and apply business skills within a innovative business environment. This will offer you a distinct advantage in securing graduate employment.

You will have the opportunity to study a wide range of business-related subjects in the early years, while still having the benefit of selecting the key subject options that interest you most during the final two years of the course. Furthermore, you will develop your IT skills through the use of a variety of relevant software application packages.

As an honours business graduate, you can expect to obtain employment at the appropriate level across a wide range of business areas, including management, administration, accounting, banking, retail management, finance, marketing, human resource management, insurance, and computing/ information technology. Rapid career progression may be expected on the basis of expertise, commitment and attitude. This programme is assessed by a combination of various forms of continuous assessment conducted throughout the semester and final examinations at the end of each semester.