StudyQA — Bachelor: Business Administration — University of Kent at Canterbury

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Description

Management and business are in the top ten subjects for degree course choices as they combine excellent academic training with good career prospects. The Bachelor of Business Administration (BBA) degree gives you the academic foundation you need for a career in business or management.

The programme equips you with the fundamental skills and knowledge essential for managing the key areas of organisations: accounting, human resource management, quantitative methods, marketing, strategy, and operations management. In addition, it gives you the choice of following specialist options, such as entrepreneurship, or spending a year working in industry.

Kent Business School students and staff come from a great variety of backgrounds and nationalities, which leads to a multicultural learning environment with a supportive and flexible approach to teaching.

Independent rankings

Business Studies was ranked in the top 20 in the UK for overall performance in The Times/Sunday Times University Guide 2015. In the Complete University Guide 2015, Business and Management was ranked 5th in the South East for overall performance. Business Studies was ranked 21st in the UK for overall student satisfaction in the National Student Survey 2014.

Detailed Course Facts

Application deadline 15 January Tuition fee

GBP 9000 Year (EEA)
GBP 12450 Year (Non-EEA)

Part-time:UK/EU £4500 Overseas: £6240 Start date September 2015 Credits (ECTS) 180 ECTS
Duration full-time 36 months Partnership Joint Languages Take an IELTS test

English

Delivery mode On Campus Educational variant Part-time, Full-time More information Go To The Course Website

Course Content

The course structure provides a sample of the modules available for this programme. This listing is based on the current curriculum and may change year to year in response to new curriculum developments and innovation. Most programmes require you to study a combination of compulsory and optional modules. You may also have the option to take wild modules from other programmes offered by the University in order that you may explore other subject areas of interest to you or that may further enhance your employability.

Based on sector research and curriculum developments, we intend to offer the following innovative new modules on this programme from 2015/16, subject to availability:

CB733 - Business Ethics and Sustainable Management
CB712 - Interactive Decision Modelling

Current Modules:-

Stage 1 represents the first year of your degree programme. All single honours students take the following core modules:

Business Skills and Employability
Financial Accounting, Reporting and Analysis
Global Business Environment
Introduction to Business Modelling
Introduction to Statistics for Business
Introduction to Management
Introduction to Marketing
Micro Economics for Business

Deepen your business and management and then develop an area of expertise

The structure of Stages 2 and 3 provides a general grounding, covering all the key aspects of management. You then have the opportunity to focus on one area, such as marketing or human resource management and industrial relations, or to spread your choices more widely.

Possible compulsory modules could include:

Accounting for Management Control and Decision-Making
Business Ethics and Sustainable Management
Corporate and Business Strategy
Interactive Decision Modelling
Managing Human Resources in Contemporary Organisations
New Enterprise Start-up
Operations Management
Project Management
Research Methods
Strategic Human Resource Management
Strategy Analysis and Tools.

Possible optional modules could include:

Business/Consultancy Project
Contemporary Management Challenges
Digital Marketing Applications
Digital Marketing Strategy
Diversity in Organisations
Enterprise
Macroeconomics for Business
Psychology of the Workplace
Service Management
Simulation Modelling

Business Administration with a Year in Industry

Professional work placements during a year in industry (also known as internships) are a good way to integrate study with the world of work, developing your employability, skills and knowledge which will aid your final year of study. This is taken between stages 2 and 3 of your study. Placement students are normally paid a salary by employers. A professional work placement can act as a springboard for securing good opportunities on graduation, as the selection procedures for placement schemes are often similar to those used in graduate recruitment. Our students have had placements with many major companies, including British Energy, British Airways, ExxonMobil, IBM and Sun Microsystems (USA).

Employers are very keen to employ graduates who already have work experience, so this year can greatly enhance your job prospects by providing you with real commercial experience. It also allows you to evaluate a particular career path, and gain knowledge of the working environment. If your placement is a success, you may be offered a job by that employer after graduation.

The skills and knowledge you acquire will help you in your final year at university and your placement year can also act as a springboard for securing good opportunities on graduation.

Finding a placement

Kent Business School provides information and support in finding placements, visits you twice during your placement year and provides online support at other times. On your return to the University, you provide a reflective report on your placement. There are frequent visits to the University by companies who present their placement opportunities and also interview candidates.

Salary and benefits

Students usually work on placement for an entire calendar year. Salary and holiday entitlements vary according to the employer you work for. However, many students find that they earn enough to be able to save some of their income, and this often helps them in their final year of studying at Kent.

Keeping in touch with Kent

The University maintains close contact with you during your year away. The industrial placement year is assessed by a combination of employer feedback and academic evaluation. It contributes over 10%to your overall degree mark.

English Language Requirements

IELTS band : 6.5

To study at this university, you have to speak English. We advice you to

take an IELTS test.

Requirements

Award: BBA (Hons)

Offer levels: ABB at A level, Joint honours: AAB-ABB at A level; IB Diploma 33 points inc 4 in Mathematics or IB Diploma with 16 points at Higher inc 4 in Mathematics

Entry Requirements: All programmes: GCSE Maths grade C

Professional recognition: Full or partial exemption from the preliminary stage of professional accountancy examinations, provided you choose the appropriate modules

UCAS codes:

Single honours:

Business Administration (N222)
Business Administration with a Year in Industry (N224)
Business Administration (Marketing) (N225)
Business Administration (Marketing) with a Year in Industry (N225)

Joint honours:

Business Administration and Economics (LN11)
Business Administration and Law (MN12)
Business Administration and Hispanic Studies (NR24)
Business Administration and German (NR22)
Business Administration and French (NR21)
Business Administration and Italian (NR23)

Work Experience

No work experience is required.

Related Scholarships*

Academic Excellence Scholarship
"The Academic Excellence Scholarship can provide up to a 50 % reduction in tuition per semester. These scholarships will be renewed if the student maintains superior academic performance during each semester of their 3-year Bachelor programme. The scholarship will be directly applied to the student’s tuition fees."
Access Bursary
Bursary for UK students all subjects where the variable tuition fee rate is payable.
Alumni Bursary
Alumni Bursary for UK Undergraduate students

* The scholarships shown on this page are suggestions first and foremost. They could be offered by other organisations than University of Kent.

Funding

Funding your Studies

Kent Business School and the University of Kent offer a range of funding opportunities for outstanding undergraduate students.

For more information on funding available from the University of Kent, please visit the Undergraduate Scholarships page (http://www.kent.ac.uk/scholarships/undergraduate/index.html)

Kent Scholarship for Academic Excellence

At Kent, we recognise, encourage and reward excellence. We know that you will have worked exceptionally hard to achieve the qualifications needed to secure your place at Kent Business School and the University is pleased to offer the Kent Scholarship for Academic Excellence, in recognition of this effort.

The Kent Scholarship for Academic Excellence is worth £2,000 for each year of study and will be renewed on an annual basis, subject to a good academic progress, meeting set criteria.

There is no application form to complete for this. If you have attained the necessary grades, your scholarship will be confirmed to you by email in September 2013.

Director's European Scholarship

A generous donation from Enterprise Rent-A-Car has been received by the University of Kent to support a current undergraduate student.

The Enterprise Rent-A-Car Scholarship is being offered to a current full-time stage 1 undergraduate studying at Kent Business School in Medway. The scholarship amount of £700 will be awarded towards study costs, for one year only.

Applicants must be:

a full-time undergraduate student in stage 1 at the University of Kent
studying at Kent Business School in Medway
in good academic standing
in receipt of a University of Kent Bursary

The Barbara Harris Scholarship

A generous donation has been received by the University of Kent in memory of Barbara Harris, the first Bursar of Eliot College.

The purpose of the gift is to provide two scholarships of £1,000 each per annum within Kent Business School, to students studying the following full-time undergraduate courses: