Business Management with Marketing BSc(Hons)

Career prospects 

Opportunities to tailor your learning on the degree course provide excellent preparation for roles in general management and specialist careers; for example, employee relations, marketing, recruitment and selection as well as roles in accountancy, risk management and consultancy, as well as specialist finance careers.

Additional qualifications and exemptions from accrediting bodies can also be gained depending on the module choices you make.

This course will prepare you for the marketing, advertising and PR industries, with possible roles including account executive, media planner, media buyer, event organiser, public relations officer and marketing executive. 

Recent graduates have joined companies in roles such as:

• Aspects Beauty, Junior Brand Manager
• Hallam Internet, Digital Marketing Executive
• Jellyfish, PPC Executive
• Pure360, Pre-sales Business Development Executive
• The Marketing Eye, Junior Marketing Executive.

Accreditations 

Chartered Institute of Marketing (CIM)
This course is accredited by the CIM. Their Graduate Gateway programme provides students and graduates the opportunity to gain a professional qualification alongside your degree.

All students will be able to take the CIM’s Introductory Certificate in Marketing and, depending on your module choices, will be exempt from:

• CIM Certificate in Professional Marketing: Marketing and Integrated Communications module
• CIM Diploma in Professional Marketing: Strategic Marketing module
• CIM Diploma in Digital Marketing: Marketing and Consumer Behaviour module

Skills development 

Employers are involved throughout the degree programme to ensure we’re helping you to develop the skills they’re looking for. Businesses work with us on guest lectures, placement opportunities and with live project briefs – where students present solutions to a group of employers.

We also work with organisations to develop our course programme. For example, we are working with SAP, the world’s largest business software company. During our second year module, Managing Systems, students gain practical experience working as a team to manage a business scenario by using SAP’s Enterprise Resource Planning system, which is considered industry-standard software.

Work-related opportunities  

Our dedicated Placements and Employability team provide a huge portfolio of employers offering business-related placement opportunities. They support all students to find a placement.

They offer several services to improve your employability including CV and cover letter reviews, mock assessment centres, fast-track interviews and interview practice sessions.

They will also support you throughout your placement and act as referees if you are offered a permanent role, or wish to continue to a masters.

JobTeaser

We are one of the first UK universities to use JobTeaser, a new online placements system presenting placement options in the UK and Europe. It gathers together all the job opportunities, events, and resources you need to help you with your professional development.

Placement and recruitment events

Placement Fairs are held twice a year involving a range of companies from well-known names such as Sainsbury’s, Marks & Spencer, Enterprise-Rent-a-Car, and IBM, through to smaller and more local businesses.

Our regular Employability Weeks offer a range of activities designed to enhance students’ employability, including LinkedIn workshops, sessions on working abroad, advice from the university’s volunteering service and support from the Careers team.

Careers advice 

Careers Service
Our Careers Service provides help and advice from the very start of your studies, on subjects including careers counselling sessions, CV checking, mock interviews and advice on setting up your own business. Find out more on our careers service website.

Mentoring
Momentum is our award-winning mentoring scheme. It pairs students with professionals who wish to share their experience. Students and their mentors meet regularly to exchange ideas. The scheme helps students to develop new skills and enhance their career prospects. Find out more about the Momentum programme.

Starting your own business 

Beepurple is the university’s entrepreneurship support network. They offer free support for any student or graduate with their business ideas, freelance plan or social enterprise project.

Beepurple run events throughout the academic year, designed to equip you with skills that will improve your employability and help you grow a successful business.

By taking part in beepurple activities, you will meet like-minded people, hear how other recent graduates have set up their own businesses and gain key enterprise skills that will help you stand out from the crowd.

For more information visit beepurple.

Postgraduate study 

If you decide that you would like to go onto postgraduate study, we offer a 10% discount to alumni. Here are some courses that might interest you:

• ACCA Accounting MSc
• Economics and Finance MSc
• Human Resource Management MSc
• Logistics and Supply Chain Management MSc
• Management MSc
• Marketing MSc.