Business with Enterprise BSc(Hons)

Overview

This exciting new course will equip you with the skills and knowledge required to be aconfident and effective business professional, able to run your own business or take on an entrepreneurial role in a company.
- From the start, you are encouraged to develop a career plan and identify what you will need to do to achieve your career goals. This helps give real focus and meaning to your learning.
- Much of the learning is centred on practical business problems. This makes learning more relevant and effective as it helps you appreciate how theory relates to business practice.
- The course provides many opportunities to develop transferable skills (such as self reliance, working in teams, research, analytical and entrepreneurial skills).
- You will work on live business projects in a supported learning environment. Local entrepreneurs provide practical input.
The course can be studied part-time or full-time.The part-time route has been designed to fit around your personal and professional commitments. Full-time students will have the opportunity to take a work placement so they will graduate with both a qualification and real experience on their CV.
This course is run at our Hastings campus offering you access to a superb range of new study facilities and a wide range of social and leisure activities in the local area.

Course duration
Full-time: 4 years (includes placement year)
Part-time: 4 years
With placement year: 4 years

UCAS code N190 (campus code U)
Course content

Areas of study

The course will help you develop:
- an advanced understanding of how organisations operate
- commercial awareness
- the ability to use business decision tools
- an appreciation of the effects of the global business environment
- marketing knowledge and skills
- your own business ideas.
Building on this knowledge you will conduct research into systems analysis, operations management, legal issues and human resources. You will also have opportunities to build strong business networks and experience for your CV.

Syllabus

Year 1
Solving Business Problems and Business Analysis, part one (global business environment, organisational behaviour, marketing, commercial awareness)
- Business Enterprise
- Continuing Professional Development
Year 2
Solving Business Problems and Business Analysis, part two (systems analysis, operations, consumer behaviour, product design, law)
- Business Enterprise
- Continuing Professional Development
Optional placement year (full-time students only)
Final year
- Placement Report (or organisation report)
- Business Proposal
- Business Project
- Business Enterprise
- Strategic Practice
- Continuing Professional Development
Entry requirements

Typical entry requirements
individual offers may vary
A-levels:
BBB. Excludes General Studies.
BTEC
DMM.
International Baccalaureate:
34 points including 16 at Higher level.
Access to HE Diploma
pass (at least 45 credits at level 3), with 24-30 credits at merit or distinction. Must include 12 credits in business.
GCSE (minimum grade C) or Access Equivalent
at least three subjects including English language and mathematics.
Foundation degree/HND
may enable you to start the course in year 2. Relevant subjects required.
For non-native speakers of English:
IELTS 6.0, with 6.0 in writing and a minimum of 5.5 in the other elements.
Other:
This course is particularly suitable for non-A level entrants, such as those who have studied BTEC, IB or French Baccalaureate, or mature students with relevant experience.
Location

Location Hastings
Career opportunities

Career planning is central to this course. You will develop a career plan and put into place the building blocks necessary to fulfil your career ambitions. You will be encouraged to use your career plan throughout the course, identifying and developing your own targets for learning, and specialising in your own entrepreneurial interests and plans.
Graduates will be able to choose from a wide range of career opportunities. Many are likely to use the entrepreneurial skills gained on the course to develop their own businesses, others will take an entrepreneurial role in a company.
Former business students have gone on to start their own companies in areas such as property management, marketing consultancy and website development. Other students have chosen careers in the public, voluntary and private sectors.

Visit the careers centre website.
Fees and costs

The fees below are for students enrolling on the Business with Enterprise BSc(Hons) in the academic year 2012-13.

Fees for the part-time course:

UK/Europe student - £7,500
International student - £8,750

Further tuition fees are payable for the subsequent years of part-time study. Fees listed above are for the first year of a 4 year part-time course.

Part-time students can apply for a Tuition Fee Loan.

If you have any questions or would like to apply for the part-time route please contact A.Benn@brighton.ac.uk

Fees for the full-time course:

BSc(Hons) Business with Enterprise [J1EG010]

UK/EU 9,000 GBP
Island Students 9,000 GBP
International 10,900 GBP

When on a placement (sandwich) year, students pay a reduced fee in the placement year of this course. This is currently £750 for Home and Island Students and £1,760 for International students. This fee is likely to increase with inflation.
More details

A practical approach

The course adopts a practical approach. It uses real-world business decisions and problems as the starting point, and from this foundation goes on to cover the full range of business knowledge.

You will be encouraged from the start to develop a career plan and to put in place the building blocks to achieve your career goals.

Real-world projects

You will be actively involved in attending, organising and presenting to a business seminar/conference run annually in Hastings.

You will also and have other opportunities to build strong business networks and experience for your CV.

Teaching excellence

You will be taught by an enthusiastic and committed academic team with strong experience in teaching, research and business. Local entrepreneurs also provide practical input to the course.

Academic skills will be developed throughout the programme, but students need to bring with them a can-do, open mindset, prepared to work with staff from day one.
Student views

The boys are back in town

During their studies on Business FdA and Business Management BA(Hons) at the University of Brighton Campus in Hastings, two of our students were developing their own business ideas. They are now running exciting ventures here in Hastings. Here are their stories:

Brian Adams – Business FdA

“Not only was Hastings campus local which enabled me to study for a degree while undertaking daily responsibilities of a family, it enabled me to realise the opportunities Hastings as a small town has to offer. The all-round support and inspiration I was given during my time at Hastings campus, not just from my lecturers but also the library and technical staff, gave me the enthusiasm and confidence that I could start and run a successful local business. My only regret is that I did not realise sooner the plentiful opportunities Hastings campus has to offer.”

Brian’s business idea, Booter Scooter, was developed during the course and was presented to a panel of employers.

“Booter Scooter is an alternative way to travel, serving Hastings and surrounding areas. We offer to drive your car and you, to your chosen destination safely after a night out. Alternatively, should you be busy working or enjoying your leisure time, one of our drivers will take your car for you, should your car need to visit the garage. Your Car, We Drive.”

Dermot McKeon – Business Management BA(Hons)

“I really appreciate Brighton University opening a campus in Hastings – its location gave me the opportunity to carry on running my business while studying for a Business degree. The lecturers were very supportive and encouraging throughout my studies helping me to both enhance my business and achieve my degree”

Dermot opened his business after his second year, but learned the art of delegation during his final year, as he passed the running of the business to his family. Dermot is now emulating his success in his degree with his new business Apex Inventories:

“Our role is to help regulate, maintain and enhance the important relationship between landlords and tenants by providing professional and unbiased reports on residential properties before, during and after tenancies, that are beneficial to all parties.”

If you have an entrepreneurial spirit, and feel you can achieve what Brian and Dermot have, then our new Business With Enterprise BSc(Hons) is for you.