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Study Business Management with London Metropolitan University, the 1st in the UK for satisfaction with teaching on our business and management courses (Guardian University Guide, 2024).
Effective business management requires both theory and practice, and this course provides you with an opportunity to develop both your understanding of theory and its application in a wide variety of situations and your practical skills. There is an emphasis on knowledge and understanding of business organisations, the business environment in which you operate, its management, and the management of the people within. The course provides you with the skills and attributes that will enable you to compete and succeed in a wide range of fields that require management.
You will develop an understanding of the purposes, structures, size, scale, governance, operations and management of the functions and processes of business organisations, as well as the corporate behaviours and cultures which exist within and between different organisations. The course is designed to prepare you to deal with contemporary issues and challenges in the world of business.
The four-year Business Management (including foundation year) BA (Hons) degree has a built-in foundation year (Year 0) that provides you with an alternative route into higher education if you don’t have traditional qualifications or do not meet the entry requirements for an undergraduate degree.
During your foundation year, you will engage with business challenges in a stimulating environment, while boosting your confidence and acquiring crucial academic skills. This acts as excellent preparation for your subsequent three years of study, which will allow you to specialise in more specific and advanced areas of business.
Once you have completed the foundation year you will study a range of modules including the Business Environment, Business Decision Making, Leadership and Management, Strategic Management as well as the chance to develop a business plan and complete a research project (dissertation). In addition, you will undertake personal and academic skills development.
In the Personal and Academic Development module, you will have an opportunity to record your development in a Personal Development Planner (PDP). You will be asked to monitor those times when you use specific skills and the context in which they are experienced: study, work, or personal, and you will be asked to consider the transferability of the skills developed in one context to other situations, which is what reflection is all about.
The overall aim of the course is to deliver a contemporary and dynamic programme of study which provides you with the knowledge and skills inherent in the subject to prepare you for a career in business management by increasing your understanding of organisations, their management, the economy, and the business environment.
You will have lectures, workshops and tutorials totalling nine to 12 hours per week. You are also expected to complete independent study totalling 28 to 31 hours per week.
You will be assessed through a mix of:
Some modules will require you to produce an e-portfolio including real-life investigations and tasks. In your final year, you will also write a dissertation.
At London Metropolitan University, we’re focused on a digital future and your degree plays an important part in preparation for this, helping you to achieve your employability goals and life ambitions.
As part of your studies, we aim to equip you with the key skills you’ll need to enhance your employability and prepare you for success in your career. Blended working is now a permanent feature for many businesses around the world and the experience you gain by studying through a blended learning model will help prepare you for this, increasing your confidence and readiness for success in the digital workplace.
The number of live contact hours that you have with your lecturers remains the same:
Our blended approach offers the best of both live, online, and on-campus learning opportunities, and your blended timetables will typically follow one of the below:
Daytime students – you will typically have two days of tuition per week and your sessions will be on campus for one of those days. The other day will take place live online.
Evening and weekend students – your blended timetables will typically follow one of the below patterns each week:
Weekend only students – you will typically have face-to-face sessions on a Saturday and online sessions on a Sunday.
Please note that the blended timetable pattern will be decided by the scheduling team.
Find out more about blended learning at London Metropolitan University.
Alongside our daytime timetables, we also offer evening and weekend, or weekend only timetables. These options offer the same levels of study support with the flexibility to balance your full-time studies with personal commitments.
All modules are core and are worth 15 credits unless otherwise specified.
This module focuses on the skills needed for success in business. It provides you with opportunities to become aware of the essential communication, problem-solving, decision-making, commercial awareness, and the various other skills needed for succeeding in business. It is also designed to introduce and reinforce essential transferable skills with a focus on personal development, planning and reflective learning.
The module aims to:
This module is designed to provide you with the main elements of the learning process. An important distinction is that you enter university to learn, not to be taught, and this module is designed to provide you with guidance in the learning process. It introduces the concept of the learning cycle and learning styles.
It provides you with an overview of how memory stores information as well as enabling recall of previously encountered information so that you can build on it and re-store it as new information.
In addition, you are introduced to and will practice, a wide range of skills necessary for successful academic study, such as exam technique, academic literacy, creativity and critical thinking.
This module introduces you to the contexts of business. Business functions including innovation, operations, marketing, human resource management, finance and accounting, all of which interact with one another, can only be fully understood when the environmental, organisational, and strategic contexts within which the business operates are also understood.
The focus of this module is the development of your understanding of how business organisations work and operate in the wider environment. You will have opportunities to examine the various functions of businesses and their relevant environments. You will analyse a variety of business situations and cases.
This module introduces you to the concept of globalisation in terms of its impact on socio-cultural, political, economic and technological factors. The main aim of the module is to introduce you to the impact of various contexts on business itself, and to provide you with opportunities to enhance a wide range of academic and business skills, such as commercial awareness, and sensitivity in terms of people and cultures.
This module aims to provide you with a thorough overview of the numerical and technological skills needed to analyse data in the context of business analysis. The module encompasses aspects of mathematics, statistics and information technology relevant to not only the business management but wider subjects.
This module focuses on numbers and data and their computational and analysis techniques that lead to the understanding of Accounting, Finance, Business, Aviation and Economics related information. You will make use of a range of facilities on Excel to calculate, analyse and present efficiently.
Data analysis is a top business priority. It drives the opportunity for performance improvement and, with advances in technology, data is generated at an ever-increasing rate. As such, it is not surprising that business data analysis and software skills are among the top graduate skills sought by employers today.
This module introduces data-based decision making and performance measurement. It also provides you with the practical experience of using Excel to transform data into meaningful information. It further introduces you to forecasting and target setting, budgeting, and project management. As such, it provides you with an understanding of the fundamentals of statistical methods for business decision making.
Overall, this module develops the analytical and communication skills relevant to understanding business Information, with an emphasis on problem-solving techniques in the context of business management, decision making and performance measurement.
Financial Accounting is a core module that is designed to lay the foundation for understanding the accounting requirements of business organisations for internal and external reporting and decision making. It examines the financial accounting techniques for sole traders and limited companies.
This module aims to:
The module introduces the marketing management process in contemporary organisations and in the context of tangible goods, services, and b2b markets. The service sector accounts for a significant proportion of GDP and employment in most developed economies and thus it becomes essential for you to gain insight into the area.
In this module, you will explore a range of marketing theories such as the marketing concept, consumer behaviour, business environmental analysis, marketing research, consumer and b2b insights.
The module aims to:
At present, companies are employing various digital systems to support their business processes and gain a competitive advantage. Equally, developments in Internet Technology are affecting the social networks of individuals. In this rapidly changing and evolving environment of digital systems, it is vital that you, as a future manager, are equipped with the necessary knowledge and skills to exploit and manage digital business opportunities and initiatives within your respective industry.
This module helps the understanding of principles of digital business management in various contexts. It will focus on:
Overall, the module aims to develop a view of digital business in practice.
The focus of this module is to equip you to understand organisations in contexts past, present and future, and enable you to analyse the macro, micro, internal, and external business and economic environments in which they operate. An understanding of the environments will facilitate the interpretation of situations and enable decisions that add value for businesses. The focus of the module is on the external and internal influences on organisations and the effect these have on business practices.
The module is designed to be used by Level 4 undergraduate students on a range of programmes. Examples, illustrations, and case studies will be drawn from chosen industry sectors such as advertising, aviation, events, finance, marketing, music, transport, tourism, and applied to reinforce basic concepts. This will enhance your ability to understand particular business problems and aspects of the business and economic environment. Topics and case studies will cover business issues that are contemporary and relevant to the real world.
This module introduces the management of people in organisations, or as it is commonly known “Human Resource Management”. It is aimed at students from a variety of disciplines, and not just those looking to pursue a career in HRM.
Ultimately, the management of people is often the responsibility of line managers and supervisors, so it is important that all graduates are equipped with the knowledge and skills to implement this effectively in practice.
This module will take a critical perspective, illuminating you to not only the ways people management can contribute to performance and employee well-being but also the potential problems implementing this in practice.
This Professional Practice module will enhance your understanding of what it means to be a business professional. This module will support your preparation for your future career by encouraging you to develop, put into practice, and evidence the skills and behaviours that employers want to see.
You will explore:
As such, this module aims to:
The focus of this module is management and the development of you as a manager. Managers are crucial to getting things done, for example, they plan, organise, lead and coordinate the work of others in order to meet organisational goals efficiently and effectively. The challenges of managing in today’s ever-changing, increasingly uncertain, complex economic environment requires managers to have the knowledge, ability and skills to take action, such as managing information, delegating tasks, setting goals, building teams, motivating others and, along with numerous other activities, achieve organisational success.
The traditional view of the purpose and role of management in the world of work was to seek stability and efficiency in a top-down hierarchy aimed at achieving bottom-line results. In contrast, the contemporary management approach expects managers to engage in motivating people and harnessing their creativity, sharing information and power, leading change, and finding shared vision and values in an increasingly diverse and complex workplace.
Today’s managers require the knowledge and ability to draw on both traditional and contemporary approaches to management when formulating workplace decisions. They also need the skills, tools, and techniques to manage their own career trajectory based on the acquisition of sound employability skills and accompanying behaviours.
In addition to knowledge, the module focuses on developing you as a manager, which involves the ability to interact with, and motivate, a diverse range of people.
The module aims are to:
This module aims to develop your ability to understand and apply problem solving methods and analysis in relation to issues that may arise in business and management subject areas.
The module offers an opportunity for you to collect, present, analyse and interpret qualitative and quantitative data from a variety of data sources such as ONS and other sources. It seeks to enhance your knowledge and understanding of the business environment and develop your data management and data analysis skills using IT packages as appropriate.
The module provides the quantitative and qualitative data analysis skills that underpin the success of an empirical research project. This module helps to build the sound foundation required to undertake a final year project/dissertation module.
This module provides you with an understanding of leadership in both theoretical and practical terms. Using multi-media, you will analyse how an understanding of leadership theory can contribute to developing, leading, and managing business organisations.
To develop your knowledge of leadership in practice you will use real world case studies to develop your understanding of leadership dilemmas and how theory can be used to help solve them. You will explore the role of Power, Influence, and Ethics in the role of the leader and how this can be developed to create a more ethical approach to leadership. In addition, you will examine how leaders deal with conflict in the workplace through workplace examples and cases.
You will have the opportunity to identify, reflect on and develop your own leadership skills. You will conduct a self-leadership audit through identifying your leadership style, traits and skills, e.g. negotiation, communication, and then develop a self-reflective piece to evidence your leadership skills development. You will then develop a plan to demonstrate what you have learned and how you might apply your new leadership knowledge in practice in your future career roles.
Selling is an essential function of business. This module provides you with the opportunity to gain and develop essential selling and negotiation knowledge and skills. It will particularly consider the international perspective in selling to prepare you for the importance of considering the richness of our current global context.
The module supports a marketing management perspective. Indeed, it includes understanding the selling function and learning from it to improve the overall marketing management function.
Currently, one of employer’s biggest challenges is to find employees with selling skills. They argue that ‘selling is a life-blood of businesses’ since businesses cannot survive without effective results from this important function. Accordingly, this module should give you the edge over other students without such knowledge when seeking employment opportunities.
Past students of this module have confirmed the importance of undertaking this module in helping them find a job. Additionally, selling has a broader perspective as it enables you to learn how to be more persuasive while remaining ethical in your business transactions.
This module introduces and explores a range of key topics related to organisation studies. A broad range of organisation theories is drawn upon to encourage you to develop a critical approach towards your understanding and analysis of key issues within contemporary organisations.
London Metropolitan University has a policy that undergraduate students must take a Work Based Learning (WBL) module. It should be a module which requires you to directly experience and operate in the real world of work. You will be able to reflect on that episode in order to identify skill and knowledge areas that you need to develop for your career.
You will be challenged to be creative in identifying a new business opportunity and in examining the viability of all aspects of the idea in the real-world context e.g. testing potential customers’ views. As a result of client brief and feedback, business concepts and/or ideas will develop over the duration of the module. In terms of promoting work related skills, the module specifically focuses on practical techniques for responding to client briefs in evaluating and developing business ideas. In addition, it requires you to examine market potential and prepare a presentation of your findings, assuming the role of a business consultant.
You will develop an understanding of the role of business start-ups, business growth and development.
These skills and techniques will be useful to anyone considering:
Consultancy is big business, and the sector continues to experience strong growth. Management consulting involves engaging with stakeholders to provide objective, specialist advice.
The Practice of Consultancy module develops the practical research and consultancy skills required for a career in Business Analyses and Management Consultancy. Also, it prepares you for the final year Consultancy Project.
Specifically, this module introduces research methods for consultancy and aims to develop a practical understanding of the tools and techniques of problem analysis and issue clarification. Finally, this module aims to develop your communication skills through the preparation of a report to present the outcome of the consultation to your client.
We live in a more diverse society than ever before. Structural changes in labour markets have led to increasing numbers of women, older workers, and disabled people in employment, with fewer younger people in many industrialised economies. Globalisation and migration have also led to greater ethnic diversity. We are also clear about the business for diverse workforces and the benefits this can bring to society.
However, there is a question as to whether a diverse workforce always equals inclusion. There is evidence that many of these groups are marginalised and face employment disadvantages in practice. The aim of this module is to illuminate some of the inequalities experienced by these groups, and then to examine theoretical perspectives helping explain these and provide insights into how these can be better remedied in practice.
This module will therefore look at the meaning of inclusion and how it differs from concepts of equality and diversity – what it adds and where it might be lacking. We will examine closely the different dimensions of diversity (gender, age, race/ethnicity and so forth) to understand the specific barriers these groups experience, and what methods organisations can develop to ensure more inclusive workplaces – so that everyone feels valued regardless of identity or background.
A broader aim of the module is to provide you with an opportunity to ‘step into the shoes’ of diverse marginalised groups and the specific barriers they face, so you are better prepared to identify and promote inclusive workplaces, as social justice champions of our future.
This module introduces you to fundamentals of the marketing communications process and the role of an integrated marketing communicating approach in both traditional and digital communication formats, in achieving marketing objectives. The changing environment and impact of technology are explained as background for synthesis of the communications process.
The module aims to:
You will develop a critical understanding of appropriate concepts, theories, tools and models of integrated marketing communications as they relate to how to set campaign objectives, implement a campaign, measure and evaluate its success.
You will critique increasingly complex nature of communications within the management, delivery and control of strategic marketing plans.
This module requires you to:
Your research will involve the review of a wide range of publications (secondary data sources) around the broad area of investigation. This will lead to the formulation of a research proposal for your dissertation.
You will pursue a robust enquiry into a theme emerging from your investigations in your chosen industry. As the theme emerges, the research methodologies, appropriate methods of data collection, data processing, and analysis are evaluated.
This module introduces the developing field of cross-cultural management, explored in relation to both international and intra-national contexts, and drawing on perspectives from social anthropology, social psychology, organisational behaviour, and management theory. It is assessed via a group report and presentation, and an unseen examination based on a case study given in advance.
Strategy is a crucial subject, concerned with the development, success and failure of all kinds of organisations. Accordingly, strategy constitutes a key element of all professional business and management qualifications. It is aimed at students wishing to fulfil up-to-the-minute strategy roles. You will be using business intelligence, web solutions, and agile methods to develop and deliver the strategy in today’s technology-dependent business environment.
In brief, the module equips aspiring and digitally aware managers and leaders with the knowledge, skills and techniques required to analyse contemporary organisations within changing environments nationally and globally. You will also learn how to formulate, evaluate, and defend realistic and creative proposals for future strategic direction. Finally, you will explore how to plan for the effective implementation of the strategy selected.
In this module, you will experience the practice of management from three differing yet integrated approaches:
This module aims to enable you to study and apply in practice a range of leadership theories and techniques to critically evaluate:
The Module will be based on two themes:
This module underlines the role personal judgement plays in personal finance, and the many perspectives that inform personal judgement. It will enable you to formulate and employ Action Learning strategies for the development of knowledge, skills and attitudinal competencies in personal finance. You will also increase your ability and confidence in dealing with the complexities of making financial decisions in the five domains of financial capability identified by the FSA.
This module covers ecological financial worlds and scenario analysis and takes the approach of Competency based Action Learning for effective financial performance.
You will also explore behavioural finance, the psychology of financial decision-making, budgeting, investment management, forecasting, and personal planning processes.
With the challenges presented by new media, shifting media patterns, and divided consumer attention, the optimal integration of marketing communications takes on increasing importance. The module is designed to build on your level 5 knowledge and enable you to unlock the power of integrated marketing communications (IMC) by taking advantage of the unique strengths of different communication options and combining and sequencing them strategically.
The module provides you with key industry-standard skills needed to develop a successful career in marketing communications, digital marketing, and social media. It enables you to gain first-hand experience in setting up live marketing communication campaigns in different contexts by combining both traditional media, new digital options, and industry standard programmes such as Creative Cloud, Adobe, or Project.
The course information displayed on this page is correct for the academic year 2024/25. We aim to run the course as advertised; however, changes may be necessary due to updates to the curriculum (due to academic or industry developments), student demand, or UK compliance reasons.
To study this programme, you will need to meet the following entry requirements:
Additionally, during the admissions process, you will be asked to attend either an academic or admissions interview.
We encourage and will consider applications from mature students who haven’t recently undertaken a formalised course of study at A-level or equivalent, but who can demonstrate workplace, indicating their ability to complete the course successfully. Applications will be considered on a case-by-case basis.
If you have higher qualifications than these entry requirements, we also have a 3-year Business Management BA programme.
Please note: We are not currently able to sponsor international students to study this programme at London Metropolitan University Centres, therefore if you require sponsorship to study as an International student, this course will be unavailable to you.
If you are an international student interested in this course and would like to discuss alternative options available to you, please contact 020 3944 1243.
£9,250 per annum
Your tuition fees cover the cost of teaching, access to resources, registration costs, and Student Support Services. They do not include the cost of course books, stationery and photocopying/printing costs, accommodation, living costs, travel, hobbies, sports or other leisure activities.
Access to a laptop/PC with a microphone, speakers, webcam and a reliable internet connection is required for accessing your live online sessions and to complete your assignments.
In addition to the tuition fees, you should be prepared to buy some of the course texts which are around £30 each. This would average around £200 per annum.
If you’re an undergraduate or postgraduate student from the UK, you may be able to receive financial support from the Government to help fund your studies.
The Government currently offers two types of loans that cover:
Repayment
Both loans will need to be repaid after your studies, however generally you won’t have to start paying anything back until the April after you have finished your course once you are employed and earning above a specific amount. For more information on when you’ll start repaying, please refer to your student finance repayment plan.
How to apply
If you would like to find out more information about Student Finance loans and how to apply, please refer to the following:
The overall aim of the course is to deliver a contemporary and dynamic programme of study which provides you with the knowledge and skills inherent in the subject to prepare you for a career in business management by increasing your understanding of organisations, their management, the economy, and the business environment.
By studying a degree in our blended learning model, you will enhance your employability by demonstrating you successfully studied in a blended learning environment as part of your degree – a key requirement in today’s digitally focussed businesses.
Graduates from London Metropolitan’s business degrees have gone on to develop careers in:
Some have also gone on to set up their own businesses or continued academic study through a postgraduate degree.
Upon completing this course, you’ll have the opportunity to further your expertise by progressing on to our MSc International Business Management programme, which includes a business simulation module. This postgraduate qualification can help enhance your career prospects and open doors to leadership roles in various industries.
You can apply online to study this programme through the application links on this page.
As part of your application, you are required to provide some supporting documents (examples below):
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£9,250 per annum (24/25)Foundation Year: £5,760 (25/26)Years 1-3: £9,535 per annum (25/26)
Undergraduate
4 years (3 year option also available)
November
April
August
32 UCAS points (or equivalent)
GCSE English Language at grade C (grade 4) or above (or equivalent). Alternatively, applicants can sit the QA Higher Education English test.
Full-time Blended learning: Daytime, Evening and Weekend, or Weekend only delivery
Coursework, presentations, portfolios and exams
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Birmingham
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