BA (Hons) Business and Management (Top-up) (Full Time)

The BA (Hons) Business and Management one-year top-up course at Southampton Solent University is designed to convert your existing qualifications to degree level (Level 6). It will broaden and strengthen knowledge and experience gained from your earlier studies at HND or equivalent.

You will have the opportunity to improve your general business subjects, develop your own study of management through a dissertation and turn your diploma (or equivalent) into a broad-based business degree.

Industrial focus

Many of the teaching staff have professional and industry experience in business and management and feed their knowledge and skills into the course, ensuring that all the study units reflect current developments in the workplace.

Course content

Year 1

Five core units and one option:

• Business Project Skills OR Business Project Skills with English where English is not your first language
• Business Project Report
• Business Finance Management
• Strategic Marketing Management
• Cross-Cultural Management.

Options:

• Personnel Management
• Contemporary Business Issues
• Strategic Management.

Why choose Solent?

Solent provides the opportunity to top up your existing qualification into a full degree within a short time frame. The course has the benefit of attracting students from a number of destinations both in the UK and overseas. This creates a strong cross-cultural environment in which to learn and prepare students for the outside world.

• This course gives you the opportunity to progress your current studies to degree level in just one year.
• Students will be given current issues to grapple with and encouraged to make decisions and provide recommendations.
• This course allows you to look at a number of business and management issues which are relevant to many career opportunities.

Assessment

The course is assessed by a mixture of coursework, projects and exams, with the emphasis on coursework and projects.

Projects/work experience

Coursework and projects will focus on real business issues and the application of knowledge and skills to current matters.

Key career skills

Presentation, project management, communication, evaluation and problem solving.

Graduate quote

Patricia Valuch

Graduate Patricia Valuch studied business and management in her native Germany before completing her final year at Southampton Solent University.

“The course provided the opportunity to investigate many areas of business and to discover the subjects that interested me the most. This was a very good choice as I can now specialise in many different areas.”

Patricia really enjoyed writing her dissertation. She says: “I believe that this project helped me decide on the direction that I should take with my future career.”

As a non-native English speaker, one of the major benefits of the course for Patricia has been the opportunity to improve her language skills. This was always something that she was hoping to achieve during her stay in Southampton.

“I also believe that I have developed enormously as a person and grown more independent,” she adds. “I rented my own flat, cared for myself and organised everything that needed to be done when one lives alone, especially in a foreign country.

“I’ve met people from all over the world which made studying much more interesting and fun! With a little organisation, university life can be relaxing.”
The International Foundation Year must be successfully completed before commencing undergraduate study (NQF Level 6 and above). In compliance with UKBA Tier 4 (General Student) policy, a Confirmation of Acceptance for Study (CAS) will initially be issued for the foundation course.

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