Brunel University – BSc Business & Management

BSc Business & Management

Brunel’s Business and Management degree will equip you with a broad knowledge and appreciation of business and management as well as the analytical, technical and interpersonal skills required to understand, analyse and address the problems that today’s companies face.

The general Business and Management pathway covers all the fundamental elements of Business and Management with a range of optional modules to choose from.

The course offers:

• Highly innovative programme with quantitative content.
• Emphasis on globalisation issues generated by multi-national enterprises (MNEs).
• Teaching that focusses on real life data analysis skills.
• Management study that offers a wide choice of job opportunities after graduation.

The Business and Management general pathway will cover all the fundamental elements of Business and Management with a range of optional modules to choose from. The core components of this degree will offer you the widest range of skills in business and management (see Course Content) including: fundamentals of marketing economies; theoretical and practical characteristics of organisations; various business models and frameworks; the challenges of coping with future uncertainty, and managing change.

Emphasis in this pathway is on globalisation issues generated by multinational enterprises (MNEs) that account for over fifty percent of global output. A deeper understanding of the commercial power of MNEs will help students to position themselves strategically in a competitive job market.

Course Content

This course offers 2 elective specialisation areas: Marketing, Accounting.

Semester 1

• Introduction to Management Enquiry
• Managing Information with Technology
• Organisational Behaviour and Analysis
• Introduction to Accounting
• International Business Environment
• Principles and Practice of Marketing

Semester 2

• Marketing Communications
• Critical Perspectives in Management
• Managing Change and Creativity in Organisations
• Project Management
• Human Resource Management and its International Dimensions
• Operations Management

Semester 3

• Strategic Management
• Business Ethics, Environmental Sustainability and Governance
• Issues and Controversies in Management Project
• Optional Module:
  • Entrepreneurship and Small Business Ventures
  • Gender and Organisations
  • International Marketing
  • Innovation and Knowledge Management

There are companies with management and companies with money. You can always find money. Management is the key to success in any business.

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Career Pathway

Students undertaking a work placement spend at least 44 weeks in an organisation working for a particular department, performing a role relevant to their studies. Work placements are carried out at the end of a student’s second year at Brunel.

Whilst a student is out on placement, an academic member of Brunel Business School keeps in touch and all placement students and their employers are invited to attend a tutorial day at Brunel.

Most work placements are organised with companies based in the UK, but where a student has contacts overseas, it is possible to organise a placement outside the UK, subject to certain conditions being met.

Employers of placement students from Brunel include:

• IBM
• Adidas
• Lloyds TSB
• British Airways
• Orange
• Microsoft
• Warner Bros
• Morgan Stanley
• Air France
• Walt Disney
• PricewaterhouseCoopers
• United Biscuits
• Nissan

 

Entry Requirements (International Students)

• Secondary School Diploma Overall Grade 70% over 100%.
• English Language Requirements: IELTS 6.5 (min 5.5 in all bands)
• 2 Academic Reference Letters
• Statement of Purpose (Motivation Letter)