If you are looking for a platform to develop your technical understanding of business, with a vocational structure that continually improves and develops your entrepreneurial mindset — this course is designed for you.
Our BA Global Business and Entrepreneurship with Foundation Year course provides a different pathway towards achieving your academic and professional aspirations — particularly if you need a course that can be structured around your work and family commitments.
The Foundation Year of this course helps you build the necessary skills and basic understanding needed to be successful during the following three years. The following years gradually increase the intensity of your learning — building your understanding of entrepreneurship and new venture management while also providing unique learning pathways to explore during the final year.
Our BA (Hons) Global Business and Entrepreneurship with Foundation Year prepares you to realise the potential of your own business ideas — from the awareness to spot lucrative opportunities to the skills needed to make them a reality. This course has an engaging structure that also takes you through dynamic organisations and how they generate employment opportunities, economic growth and social transformation.
You will constantly test your learning and ideas, practising entrepreneurship in real-world scenarios in the classroom — building business planning skills critical for entrepreneurial success. This course also explores the theory and practice of entrepreneurship in different contexts gaining a clear understanding of how strategy, tactics and innovation are valued in different business models.
Our industry experts will provide a clear understanding of how to launch and grow businesses and where to look for potential pitfalls along the journey. You will also benefit from personalised face-to-face academic, career, financial and well-being support from our welfare team.
This course includes the following modules during the first three years of study. The final year of study has six unique pathways that each explore contemporary issues in today’s business and entrepreneurship landscape. You will undertake the specialist module relevant to your chosen pathway.
Foundation Year:
- Academic Writing and Research Skills (20 credits)
- Business Environment (20 credits)
- Entrepreneurial People and Processes (20 credits)
- Fundamentals of Finance (20 credits)
- Introduction to Business (20 credits)
- IT Essentials (20 credits)
Year 1:
- Entrepreneurial Organisations (20 credits)
- Entrepreneurial Recognition, Ideas and Opportunities (20 credits)
- Introduction to Marketing (20 credits)
- Introduction to Strategic Management (20 credits)
- Managerial Finance (20 credits)
- Project Management (20 credits)
Year 2:
- Business Ideas and Opportunities Generation (20 credits)
- Business Planning and Pitching (20 credits)
- Digital Marketing and Social Media in Business (20 credits)
- Financing a Business Venture and Legal Aspects (20 credits)
- Intrapreneurial Development (20 credits)
- Social Entrepreneurship (20 credits)
Year 3:
- Global Strategies (20 credits)
- Market Research (20 credits)
- Project (60 credits)
Depending on your pathway of choice, you will also
complete one of the modules below:
- Contemporary Issues in Entrepreneurship (20 credits)
- Contemporary Issues in Events and Hospitality (20 credits)
- Contemporary Issues in IT and Communications (20 credits)
- Contemporary Issues in Professional Business Services (20 credits)
- Contemporary Issues in Retail (20 credits)
- Contemporary Issues in Supply Chain (20 credits)
Please note that fees are subject to change. Following the recent government announcement, we expect to increase our undergraduate tuition fees for UK students from the start of the 2025/26 academic year. Fees for the 2025/26 academic year will be published in due course.
Funding Your Study
You may be able to borrow money from the UK Government to help pay your tuition fees and to help with your living costs while studying.
This could take the form of a Tuition Fee Loan to cover the cost of your tuition fees, and/or a Maintenance Loan to support you with living costs whilst studying.