Level 5 Business Management (Sales & Marketing) Foundation Degree

This course has been designed to provide students with the knowledge, understanding and skills required for success in future business employment, or to progress on to a Top-up Degree course. It recognises the value of combining academic and vocational skills to prepare students for a career in the industry of your choice.

This course consists of the following:

Year 1

• Developing business skills
• Business liability
• Managing communications
• Marketing tools
• Business finance
• Employment law
• Work placement (May to September)

Year 2

• Performance management
• Business decision-making
• Research project
• Management & leadership
• Product promotion
• Sales operations

A final year research project module allows students to combine many of the skills they will have developed to produce findings about a particular area of interest. This will help with their progression should they decide to top-up to an Honours Degree following successful completion of this course.

Students will need between 140 and 240 UCAS points from:

• BTEC Diploma or Extended Diploma
• At least two 'A' Levels at 'A2' or GCE Applied/AVCE Double Award
• Advanced Diploma
• International Baccalaureate

This will be supported by a minimum of GCSEs at grade A*-C in Maths and English Language (or equivalent).

Consideration will be given to other related Level 3 qualifications and related work experience.*

Mature students with relevant experience and/or qualifications, including an Access to HE Diploma within a relevant subject area, are welcome to apply.*

International students require an IELTS (academic) test score of 6.0 (with no component less than 5.5).

*You may be required to attend an interview.