BSc (Hons) Business

The business degree in London built for your success

The study of Business covers a wide range of fields and considers the advantages and disadvantages of different approaches and the challenges businesses face to achieve the objectives of their stakeholders (shareholders, consumers, government, and wider society).

Our BSc (Hons) Business degree in London examines all aspects of business: management approaches, business structures, marketing, supply chains and operations management, and finance. Our business courses use case studies and examples drawn from a wide range of business types (from entrepreneurs to global corporations), to understand the varying ways businesses can operate and be managed.

The curriculum includes courses in marketing, management, operations, finance, supply chain, innovation, fintech, statistics, global responsibility and sustainability.

This business degree combines a rigorous syllabus with a personalised elective pathway. Students can choose to deepen their focus through their elective business courses, or they can further contextualise and broaden their studies with courses that match other interests and goals.

Completing this business degree in London makes you stand out as a graduate. London is a capital city with unmatched opportunities – the kind that help students develop technical skills as well as critical thinking and analysis skills required for success in the top business jobs today. They can also focus on innovation, marketing, and microeconomics and international business and global responsibility, making them highly employable with a wide array of career opportunities.

Our growing range of Elective courses include the subjects that have in the past been available as minors, plus some new popular subjects and interdisciplinary themes.

Focus on one subject or study multiple subjects. Flexible Elective Pathway courses will enable students to choose to either:

• Deepen focus in their business degree
• Combine business courses with courses in a particular second subject
• Explore a broad range of subjects, developing agile thinking across disciplinary boundaries

Discipline Pathways

• Art & Design
• Business
• Computer Science
• Creative Writing
• Data Science
• Economics
• English
• History
• Law
• Philosophy
• Politics & International Relations
• Philosophy, Politics & Economics (PPE)

Thematic Pathways

• Sustainability
• Technology & Ethics

• Rigorous, in-depth core business courses
• Interdisciplinary degree, built around real-world problems
• Flexibility to create your academic pathway with elective courses
• Development of practical and transferable skills for a wide range of business jobs
• Experiences that only a business degree in London can offer
• Exploration of significant issues that need agile thinking, crossing subject boundaries
• Knowledge and experience that will empower you to make a meaningful impact in a fast-changing world
• A chance to experience a semester abroad at one of Northeastern University’s campuses in the US

You will experience learning at the University through a combination of formats and class sizes. Some of our courses are delivered through a high number of scheduled teaching or ‘contact’ hours, while others focus on smaller, more personalised, guided independent study, or hands-on or community-based projects.

Our academic staff selects the most appropriate pedagogy and contact hours for each individual course to support students to develop and succeed in their studies. This means that within your undergraduate business degree you are likely to experience a combination of scheduled lectures, workshops, seminars and tutorials.

Most lectures and seminars will have a maximum of 40 student participants, while tutorials will typically have five or fewer students, and may sometimes be one-to-one. This personalised approach to teaching allows everyone to participate and thrive.

Study in the USA

You will have an option to spend a semester at Northeastern University in Boston, USA during your second year, providing you with an international study experience. Plus, you can choose to undertake an extra fourth year of study in Boston to earn a Northeastern USA undergraduate degree. You’ll get to earn a business degree from one of the top universities in the US, in addition to your degree from a university in London.

Core competencies are embedded within our business degree programmes, preparing you for your future career while you are studying.

Core competencies

• Writing Across Audiences and Genres
• Integrating Knowledge and Skills Through Experience
• Demonstrating Thought and Action in a Final Project (can be dissertation)

Additional competencies (minimum of four)

• Engaging with the Natural and Designed World
• Exploring Creative Expression and Innovation
• Interpreting Culture
• Conducting Formal and Quantitative Reasoning
• Understanding Societies and Institutions
• Analysing and Using Data
• Engaging Differences and Diversity
• Employing Ethical Reasoning