BA (Hons) Business Management and Innovation (top up)
Why choose this course?
- Top up your HND to an Honours Degree within a year
- Learn business management by practical application
- High student satisfaction, with an NSS score of over 90%
Enhance your professional development by learning the theory and application of business management with our innovative and industry informed Business Management and Innovation programme. Designed for people who have already completed a Foundation Degree or Higher National Diploma (HND) in a business-related subject, the BA Business Management and Innovation top-up programme will allow you to progress to an Honours degree within a year.
The programme structure will support and facilitate your learning as a mature student, providing a learning environment that caters for this. The course offers a flexible schedule, with Saturday classes and online modules allowing you to work full-time.
You will learn from a highly skilled set of academic staff who come from different professional backgrounds. Having first hand industry experience themselves, they will infuse your learning with real world knowledge and skills, enhancing your learning outcomes. You will also gain a wealth of practical tools from the research practitioners delivering the course who provide expertise in research skills on work-based projects.
In the current context of the professional world, there is increasing emphasis on the non-cognitive skills of leaders. These are the same skills you will be introduced to within the programme. Through the completion of this course, you will have gained a deeper understanding of business and management concepts and tools that can be applied in any environment, giving you an advantage as you look to progress your career.
The course itself is highly successful, with feedback from past students stating how supported they have felt by staff. Further feedback covers how well the programme provides interesting and relevant information that is transferable to work. In addition, the course has a high level of students achieving a good degree, which is a First Class Honours or an Upper Second Class degree.
What's the course about?
Across your year of study on this BA Business Management and Innovation top-up programme, you will continuously develop your understanding of the innovation processes within a complex and changing business environments. You will gain practical knowledge and skills from your lecturers as well as your peers by explore and applying new perspectives. With a focus on experiential learning, you will grow your ability to get better results from limited resources. In addition, you will develop as an individual, strengthening your leadership, presentation and team-working skills.
Upon completing the course, you will have built a well-rounded expertise of multiple aspects of business and management. This will shape you into a knowledgeable and skilled graduate who is able to apply their intellectual skills to leadership positions in any working environment.
Your main campus is de Havilland
You’ll share this campus with students from business, law, sport, education, and humanities subjects. The student housing is close to our Sports Village which includes a gym, swimming pool and climbing wall. You can get breakfast, lunch, or dinner in our on-campus restaurant or bar (in the newly built Enterprise Hub) on days you don’t feel like cooking. You can also use the common room to play pool, video games or just to hang out with friends. Our Learning Resources Centres are open 24/7, which means you can study whenever suits you best. Want to pop over to the other campus? You can take the free shuttle bus or walk there in just 15 minutes.
What will I study?
Teaching on this course will typically be delivered through a mix of regular workshops on a Saturday (six over each four-month period) and midweek evening webinars. You will be assessed via coursework, which includes assignments, reports, presentations and a project. You'll also typically be expected to carry out five to six hours per week of private study.
During the course, you will focus on building a wide range of skills that will strengthen your expertise in business management and innovation. Analysing through the context of a global landscape, you will explore multiple approaches to effecting sustainable change. Learning from your unique experiences as well as those of your peers, you will develop your problem-solving skills as you investigate the range of issues of strategic leadership in developing and implementing progressive change. You will end the programme with a capstone project that will bring together all the learnings from your modules across the two years.