BA (Hons) Entrepreneurship and Business
Southsea, United Kingdom
DURATION
3 up to 4 Years
LANGUAGES
English
PACE
Full time
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TUITION FEES
GBP 9,250 / per year *
STUDY FORMAT
On-Campus
* for UK/Channel Islands and Isle of Man students/EU residents | £16,200/year: international students
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Introduction
In today's challenging business world, organisations of all sizes need people who can demonstrate an entrepreneurial mindset with creativity and innovation beyond everyday business and management practices. This course will help you develop these skills.
You'll learn to:
- understand how to spot opportunities
- create value through effective business model design
- develop new products and services and bring them to market
- foster creativity and manage innovation within an organisation
If you have a new business idea that you're passionate about, this course will help you bring it to life in a supported environment. You'll be able to develop your idea through our practical modules, and you'll get lots of support from our dedicated start-up team.
But you don't need a business idea to do this course. Many of our graduates apply their skills in managing innovation, new products and growth in an existing business. Our curriculum supports you equally, whether you wish to run your own business or want to apply your knowledge and skills in an existing organisation.
Course highlights
- Experience a practical course where you'll apply your knowledge to real-life projects, such as helping local businesses in our Business Consultancy Project, developing your venture, or setting up a social enterprise
- Understand the processes of innovation and change in a business and how these can stimulate growth and competitiveness
- Gain an understanding of how different business models work and how these generate value in a variety of contexts
- Benefit from the workshops, drop-in sessions and funding opportunities provided by our student start-up team
- Be mentored by one of our successful Entrepreneurs in Residence
- Use a placement year to develop your own business (or work in another innovative business)
- Learn in one of the UK's most entrepreneurial cities – between 2019 and 2020, the number of new businesses launched in Portsmouth grew by 33% (InstantOffices survey 2020)
- Gain an understanding of how all the parts of a business work together and rely on each other
Start-up visas for international students
As an international student, you can apply for a graduate visa after your studies if you want to stay in the UK and work.
If you're interested in setting up your own business in the UK after graduation and on a Tier 4 visa, you can apply for a UK Start-up Visa. This allows you to stay in the UK after graduation and establish your business here. We're an endorsing institution for these visas.
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Ideal Students
Students who benefit fully from this course are open-minded, enjoy getting involved in real, practical tasks and are open to challenges.
You don't need to have a business idea or want to run your own business to get a place on this course. If you do have an idea, we'll do everything we can to help it grow, but mostly we're looking for changemakers, people who want to bring change to whatever working environment they're in.
Admissions
Scholarships and Funding
Curriculum
Modules
Year 1
Core modules
- Business Accounting – 20 credits
- Business Operations and Systems Management – 20 credits
- Managing People in Organisations – 20 credits
- Marketing Principles And Practice – 20 credits
- Introduction To Entrepreneurship – 20 credits
- Business And Professional Skills – 20 credits
Year 2
Core modules
- Business Analysis And Decision Making – 20 credits
- Business Venturing – 20 credits
- Contemporary Issues in Entrepreneurship – 20 credits
- Innovation Management – 20 credits
- Managing Product Portfolios – 20 credits
Optional modules
- Business And Employment Law – 20 credits
- Electronic And Mobile Commerce – 20 credits
- Professional Selling – 20 credits
- Modern Foreign Language (IWLP) – 20 credits
Work placement year
Core module
- Business and Law Undergraduate Work Placement – 0 credits
Year 3
Core modules
- Contemporary Issues in Product and Service Development – 20 credits
- Strategic Management – 20 credits
- Critical Entrepreneurship Study – 20 credits
- Business Consultancy Project – 20 credits
- Entrepreneurial Development – 20 credits
Optional modules
- Business Improvement and Creativity – 20 credits
- Negotiation For Entrepreneurs – 20 credits
- Project Management For Enterprise – 20 credits
- Responsible And Sustainable Business – 20 credits
- Sales Management – 20 credits
Work placement year
You can spend this optional extra year developing your own business with the help of the University, or you can take a paid placement at another business.
Career Opportunities
100% of graduates from this course are in work or further study 15 months after graduation, according to the latest HESA Graduate Outcome Study.
Several of our students set up their businesses during the course or go on to run their businesses after graduation. Many others, however, go on to apply their skills in existing businesses, particularly in the areas of product development and marketing.
Post-Covid, the business development skills you'll learn in this course will likely be more needed than ever. The Harvard Business Review recently wrote that:
Previous graduates of this course have secured jobs at companies such as:
- Origin Kitchen
- Cera Data
- Buckinghamshire Council
- Magnolia
- Worldwide Business Research
- The Future Factory
Graduates of this course have secured jobs within 15 months of graduation as:
- director of sales
- data consultant
- business consultant
- business intelligence and insight officer
- business development representative
- sales executive
Ongoing career support – up to 5 years after you graduate
Get work experience while you study with support to find part-time jobs and volunteering opportunities. Towards the end of your degree and after graduation, you'll get 1-to-1 support from our Graduate Recruitment Consultancy to find your perfect role. On top of this, you'll get bespoke careers to support through our faculty 'career-ready' programme.
Previous students on this course have had placements in organisations such as:
- Rolls Royce
- Disney
- Fujitsu
- IBM
- Ferrari
Many of our students are offered graduate jobs by their placement employers.
The average salary for a 12-month paid placement is £19,000. It could be more or less than this amount depending on your placement. You'll only pay a small percentage of your tuition fee for this year.