BA (Hons) Management

Gain a strong foundation in how businesses operate locally and globally with our BA (Hons) Management degree. Explore concepts such as globalisation, digital transformation and management to prepare you for a range of diverse business roles.

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Typical offer: 120
Entry requirements
Fees: £9,790 per year (UK)
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UCAS code: N200
Course length: Various
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Location:
University of Hertfordshire, Hatfield
Institute code: H36
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A popular degree with employers recruiting graduates in business, marketing and HR

Gain real-world experience through live business challenges and study abroad and work placement opportunities

Ideal for those with entrepreneurial passions or managerial goals

Course overview

The BA (Hons) Management degree is designed to equip you with the essential skills, knowledge and practical experience required to excel in diverse professional environments. The programme focuses on applying theoretical concepts to real-world scenarios, ensuring you're well prepared for the dynamic challenges of the modern workplace. Aimed at students aspiring to a management career, the course provides a broad foundation that you will be able to apply across a range of industries and roles.

The curriculum is informed by industry stakeholders and prepares you for roles in graduate development programmes, management consulting, team leadership in smaller businesses, or entrepreneurship. By progressing through the themes of contextual working, higher performance working, and demonstrating effective output, you’ll develop the competencies needed to thrive in diverse professional environments.

Why choose this course?

Problem-based learning: Engage in real-world business challenges, honing problem-solving, decision-making, and collaboration skills.

Practical, real-world focus: Experience active learning through live business tasks, providing transferable skills for a management career.

Industry-relevant modules: Gain hands-on experience with projects and professional development opportunities to enhance employability.

Diverse expertise: Learn from a blend of academic experts and industry professionals with a wealth of experience across different sectors.

Career-focused approach: Develop intellectual, practical, and transferable skills tailored to the demands of the management sector.

Your future career

BA (Hons) Management graduates will be equipped for a wide range of management roles across various sectors, including private, public, and voluntary organisations. Potential careers include:

business manager
management consultant
project manager
business analyst
business development manager
entrepreneur (self-employment).

The course’s practical focus ensures you’ll develop the skills needed to succeed in diverse management roles.

What you'll study

The BA (Hons) Management degree covers essential management skills and knowledge, preparing you for a variety of careers in business.

In your first year, you’ll gain a broad understanding of the business environment, exploring different sectors, management practices, and challenges. You’ll focus on contextual working and design thinking, alongside the importance of social impact and cultural connections.

In your second year, the focus shifts to higher performance working, leadership development, and practical application. You’ll engage in collaborative projects, strategic decision-making, and career planning, gaining hands-on experience.

In your final year, you’ll demonstrate effective output through capstone projects and advanced modules. Business simulations, challenge-based learning, and project-based learning will immerse you in real-world scenarios, while industry-engaged client projects and design thinking workshops allow you to apply your knowledge and develop specialised skills for entrepreneurship, consultancy, and intrapreneurship.

Level 4

Module	Credits	Compulsory/optional
Introduction to Management in Business Operations	30 Credits	Compulsory
Understanding the business environment is constantly evolving, the successful business manager of the future is one who is able to evaluate the changes, identify the choices available, and determine which is the optimal decision at that point in time. Introduction to Management in Business Operations, is designed to prepare the future business manager with the tools and skills they will need, so as they encounter the changing environment, they are not overwhelmed but are ready to fully engage with the challenges that await.
Management Skills for the Modern World	30 Credits	Compulsory
You will understand that global challenges have impact on business management. You will be able to use a range of skills to come up with solutions in management. 'Management skills for the modern world' is designed to prepare you with the right communication tools, digital and technological skills, analytical skills, and intercultural skills, to make the right decisions.
Supporting Personal and Management Professional Practice (SPP)	0 Credits	Compulsory
This module supports students as they transition into university by developing essential academic, digital, and personal skills. Through a diagnostic and tutor-led check-ins, students build a tailored development plan and complete a core skills pathway. They also choose three additional soft skill areas to grow, such as confidence, communication, or career planning. A final portfolio evidences their progress. The module fosters independence, engagement, and belonging; laying a strong foundation for future academic and professional success.
Innovation and Cultural Strategies	30 Credits	Compulsory
This module develops your evaluation and analytical skills to understand and assess management challenges and opportunities. The module also develops your innovative, creative and enterprise skills. Through an appreciation of how innovation leads to strong and sustainable market positions, you will also experiment with innovation and creative techniques to explore their scope but also be able to evaluate and assess proposals.
Driving Social Impact	30 Credits	Compulsory
This module is an introduction to factors and responsibilities beyond profit that drive organisational purpose. Using sustainability, diversity, equity and inclusion as a foundation you will explore social enterprise as a business model and the ways in which commercial businesses work with the not profit sector to deliver on social and environmental goals.

Level 5

Module	Credits	Compulsory/optional
Career Planning for Future Leaders	30 Credits	Compulsory
This module prepares you to thrive in the future workplace by equipping you with the skills needed to transition seamlessly from university to employment. Focusing on employability capital, leadership development, and work readiness, you will master essential soft skills, personal branding, resilience, and enhance their capitals. Through practical activities like networking and preparation for assessment centres, this forward-thinking module empowers you to navigate the challenges of a dynamic and evolving labour market with confidence and adaptability.
Collaborative Business Proposal	30 Credits	Compulsory
This module is a student-led business solution project. You will work together to develop and deliver either, a solution to a problem or proposal to take advantage of an opportunity. Building on the learning from your first year of study, this may range from a raising and giving (fundraising or volunteering) project to development and delivery of an event to prototyping a commercial product or service. Successful completion will depend on your application of management processes, project management, market research, business operations and team dynamics.
Developing Personal and Management Professional Practice (DPP)	0 Credits	Compulsory
This module helps students enhance their academic, digital, and professional skills through personalised development planning, reflective practice, and portfolio-building. Students complete a diagnostic, attend three Personal Tutor meetings, and engage with core and elective skill pathways, including communication, teamwork, personal branding, and problem-solving. Direct entrants are supported to complete essential Level 4 skills. The module encourages engagement with real-world opportunities such as internships, online courses, and competitions, preparing students for final-year study, career planning, and future employability.
Decision Making in Organisations	30 Credits	Compulsory
Decision Making in Organisations investigates business decision-making in a world of complicating factors such as: uncertainty, time-pressure, ethics, resource, systems, human-behaviour, bias. It is an exploration how decision-making theory, and research seeks to explain how decisions are made and what happens in reality. You will explore how organisations and their managers stay up to date with trends in their sector, can use multiple sources of data and information, to maximise opportunities and minimise threats. It uses simulations and analysing real world examples.
Policy, Ethics and Governance for Managers	30 Credits	Compulsory
This module explores ethical challenges in organisations and how power in stakeholder relationships influences the management of organisations. You will analyse the relationship between ethics, law, governance, sustainability and policy in order to apply ethical concepts in decision making. You will reflect on your personal values and address the moral implications of organisational practices at both an individual and societal level.

Level 6

Module	Credits	Compulsory/optional
Evaluating personal and management professional practice (EPP)	0 Credits	Compulsory
This module prepares students for life after university by helping them evaluate their skills, experiences, and aspirations. Students complete a final diagnostic, engage in three Personal Tutor meetings, and develop a graduate portfolio including a CV, LinkedIn profile, and personal action plan. Elective skill pathways and engagement with real-world career activities, such as mock interviews, networking events, or assessment centres, support transition into employment or further study. The module fosters confidence, reflection, and a clear sense of professional direction.
Live Management Challenge	60 Credits	Compulsory
This capstone module will enable you to demonstrate and hone your management skills and knowledge to complete a business challenge. There are a range of different challenge types possible; it can be a real consultancy project for a client, an academic research project, research to solve an industry or sector wide problem, research for a new venture, innovation for a new product. The project is multidisciplinary, and you will work to analyse, evaluate and quantify your challenge and then develop proposals, recommendations or other appropriate solutions.
Innovation and Commercial Venturing	30 Credits	Compulsory
This module provides you with an in-depth understanding of innovative venture concepts and skills and to enable you to put these into practice. This knowledge and understanding are critical to driving innovation, fostering growth, and reinforcing sustainable performance in today's competitive business environment. Whether you're looking to start your own business, innovate within an existing organisation, or pursue a career in consultancy or further education, this module offers valuable insights and practical transferable skills and tools to succeed in each of these fields.
Management in Different Sectors and Specialisms	30 Credits	Compulsory
Graduates need a range of management skills to succeed whether they are entering the public, private and third sectors, intend to start their own enterprise or continue in education. The ability to build and demonstrate your personal brand is embedded in this module. You will develop the ability to show commercial awareness and articulate what you can contribute in the workplace. This module will ensure that you can critically evaluate where your future career interests lie and identify opportunities in different sectors and disciplines.

What if I need support?

You'll benefit from an academic support team, wellbeing team and a personal tutor to help you adjust to the demands of university learning and living.

Additional support is available from our Student Success Team focused on inclusive learning and our dedicated Future Success network to help you with work experience, placements and graduate jobs.

You can also join and reach out to the Business School Student Voice community, a team of student representatives who regularly meet with staff to provide feedback and ensure teaching remains effective.

Our in-house Centre for Academic Skills Enhancement (CASE) is open to all Business School students, for extra support with academic writing, numeracy and referencing.

Optional placement year

Graduate with invaluable work experience alongside your degree and stand out from the crowd. This course offers you the opportunity to enhance your study and CV with a year in industry, typically between your second and third years of study. It’s a chance to explore career possibilities, make valuable contacts and gain sought after professional skills.

Research shows that over 70% of employers prefer students with work experience, which is why we believe work placements are career gold. Our Careers and Employment service are here to support you explore your options and make valuable contacts for your future career.

You’ll pay no tuition fee for this year and won’t need to worry about the details of your placement until your second year of study.

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Study Abroad offers the opportunity for an amazing experience, which will help make you stand out from the crowd. With more and more companies working internationally, experience of living in another country can make a great impression on future employers.

This course offers you the opportunity to enhance your study and CV with a sandwich year abroad. The University has partnerships with over 150 universities around the world, including the USA, Canada, Asia, Africa, Australia, South America and closer to home in Europe.

If you study abroad between your second and third year of study, you’ll pay no tuition fee to the partner university and no tuition fee to us either. We’ll ask you to make your decision in your second year, so there is plenty of time to think about it.

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You’ll pay no tuition fee for this year and won’t need to worry about the details of your placement until your second year of study.

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Where you'll study

You'll be taught on our modern de Havilland Campus, with our 24/7 Learning Resources Centre, offering open and private study spaces. You also get online self-study materials to further support you.

There are dining options, a bar, and a recreational space on campus where you can shoot some pool or play video games. It also houses Hertfordshire Sports Village, featuring a gym, swimming pool, coffee shop and climbing wall.

Discover the Enterprise Hub, a vibrant destination where local firms and students work and learn in comfort.

The Student Union bar and additional facilities are only a 20 minute walk (or short bus ride) away at our second campus, on College Lane. Student housing is available at both campuses.

A train to central London takes just over 20 minutes, and you are also conveniently located on the A1(M) with access to the road network, making travel quick and convenient.

How we support our students

At the University of Hertfordshire, we want to make sure your time studying with us is as stress-free and rewarding as possible.

We offer a range of support services, from childcare to counselling, ensuring that you make the most of your time at Herts and can focus on studying, having fun, and have the support you need.

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Entry requirements

The University of Hertfordshire is committed to welcoming students with a wide range of qualifications and levels of experience. The entry requirements listed on the course pages provide a guide to the minimum level of qualifications needed to study each course. However, we have a flexible approach to admissions and each application will be considered on an individual basis.

Typical offer (UCAS points)	120
Typical A Level offer	BBC
Typical IB offer	120
Typical BTEC offer	DMM
Accepted T Levels	Accounting; Agriculture, Land Management and Production; Animal Care Management; Building Services Engineering for Construction; Craft and Design; Design and Development for Engineering and Manufacturing; Design Production, Design and Development; Design Survey & Planning for Construction; Digital Business Services; Digital Support Services; Education and Early Years; Engineering. Manufacturing Processing and Control; Finance; Hair, Beauty and Aesthetics; Health; Healthcare Science; Legal Services; Maintenance, Installation and Repair for Engineering and Manufacturing; Marketing; Media, Broadcast and Production; Onsite Construction; Science.
Access courses	120
GCSE	Grade 4/C in English Language and 4/C Mathematics.
Additional information	Find out more about our Undergraduate Entry Requirements

English language	All students from non-majority English speaking countries require proof of English language proficiency, equivalent to an overall IELTS score of 6.0 with a minimum of 5.5 in each band. If you do not have the required IELTS or equivalent for direct entry on to your degree programme, our Pre-sessional English and International Foundation courses can help you to achieve this level.
Additional information	Find out more about International Entry Requirements.

Typical offer (UCAS points)	112
Typical A Level offer	BBC
Typical IB offer	112
Typical BTEC offer	DMM
Accepted T Levels	Accounting; Agriculture, Land Management and Production; Animal Care Management; Building Services Engineering for Construction; Craft and Design; Design and Development for Engineering and Manufacturing; Design Production, Design and Development; Design Survey & Planning for Construction; Digital Business Services; Digital Support Services; Education and Early Years; Engineering. Manufacturing Processing and Control; Finance; Hair, Beauty and Aesthetics; Health; Healthcare Science; Legal Services; Maintenance, Installation and Repair for Engineering and Manufacturing; Marketing; Media, Broadcast and Production; Onsite Construction; Science.
Access courses	112
GCSE	Grade 4/C in English Language and 4/C Mathematics.
Additional information	Find out more about our Undergraduate Entry Requirements

English language	All students from non-majority English speaking countries require proof of English language proficiency, equivalent to an overall IELTS score of 6.0 with a minimum of 5.5 in each band. If you do not have the required IELTS or equivalent for direct entry on to your degree programme, our Pre-sessional English and International Foundation courses can help you to achieve this level.
Additional information	Find out more about International Entry Requirements.

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UK and EU applicants with pre-settled/settled status in the UK

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September 2026	Full time	Apply via UCAS
	Full time with placement year	Apply via UCAS
	Full time with study abroad year	Apply via UCAS
September 2027	Full time	Apply via UCAS
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	Full time with study abroad year	Apply via UCAS

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Fees and funding

At Herts, we’re dedicated to providing world-class teaching supported by industry-level facilities and incredible social spaces. We believe cost shouldn’t be a barrier to higher education, and we strive to keep both our standard and additional costs as low as possible.

	Study type	Fees
UK students	Full time	£9,790 for the 2026/2027 academic year
EU students	Full time	£17,450 for the 2026/2027 academic year
International students	Full time	£17,450 for the 2026/2027 academic year

Tuition fees are charged annually. The fees quoted above are for the specified year(s) only. Fees may be higher in future years, for both new and continuing students. Please see the University’s Fees and Finance Policy (and in particular the section headed “When tuition fees change”), for further information about when and by how much the University may increase its fees for future years.

Scholarships, grants and bursaries	Depending on your circumstances, you may be eligible for a non-repayable scholarship, grant or bursary to support your studies.
Disabled Students' Allowance	The Disabled Students’ Allowance can cover any study-related costs you have because of a mental health problem, long term illness or any other disability.
Student loans	Find out about securing a student loan, from how much you could be eligible for to when you need to start making repayments.
Accommodation costs	We offer a great choice of student accommodation, on campus or nearby in the local area, to suit every student budget.
Additional course fees	Read more about additional fees in the Programme Specification.

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Programme specifications
Management with Placement Year (Full time, Semester A Intake)	Download PDF
Management (Full time, Semester A Intake)	Download PDF
Management (Year Abroad) (Full time, Semester A Intake)	Download PDF

Additional information
Applications open to international and EU students	Yes
Course length	Full Time, 3 YearsSandwich, 4 Years

BA (Hons) Management

Gain a strong foundation in how businesses operate locally and globally with our BA (Hons) Management degree. Explore concepts such as globalisation, digital transformation and management to prepare you for a range of diverse business roles.

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Typical offer: 120

Fees: £9,790 per year (UK)

UCAS code: N200

Course length: Various

Location: University of Hertfordshire, Hatfield

Institute code: H36

Work placement option

Study abroad option

Course overview

Why choose this course?

Your future career

What you'll study

What if I need support?

Optional placement year

Work Placement

Study Abroad

Where you'll study

How we support our students

At the University of Hertfordshire, we want to make sure your time studying with us is as stress-free and rewarding as possible.

Entry requirements

UK applicants

International applicants

UK applicants

International applicants

Ready to apply?

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UK and EU applicants with pre-settled/settled status in the UK

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International and EU applicants without pre-settled status in the UK

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Location:
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