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Business Management (Final Year Entry)

BA (Hons)

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Overview
How to apply
Tuition fees
Funding your studies
Learning and assessment
After you graduate

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Key facts

UCAS code

N210

Start dates

January 2025 / September 2025 / January 2026 / September 2026

Location

Headington

Course length

Full time: 1

Part time: up to 3 years

Department

Oxford Brookes Business School

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Overview

If you want to add to your existing qualifications and transition to an Honours degree, our Business Management (Final Year Entry) course is for you.

We offer you a broad education in business and management.  You will explore business issues in realistic contexts, and examine theory through challenging scenarios.

Our interactive course involves:

  • seminars
  • workshops
  • live client projects
  • discussions
  • group work activities.

Our teaching staff have considerable experience and links to industry. Staff regularly write in leading academic journals. And you can attend lectures by top professionals who give insight into  today's dynamic global business environment.

Uniquely, we focus on responsible management education. Our course will develop you as a citizen with critical awareness and sensitivity to global perspectives. As well as prepare you for a diverse range of careers in the business sector.

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How to apply

Entry requirements

Specific entry requirements

Successful completion of a course which is equivalent to the first two years of a UK honours degree (240 credits), for example an HND (with a merit profile from year 2 modules), Foundation degree (55%), or equivalent international Diploma, in Business and/or Management.

Please also see the University's general entry requirements.

English language requirements

Please see the University's standard English language requirements.

International qualifications and equivalences

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Terms and Conditions of Enrolment

When you accept our offer, you agree to the Terms and Conditions of Enrolment. You should therefore read those conditions before accepting the offer.

Credit transfer

Many of our courses consider applications for entry part-way through the course for students who have credit from previous learning or relevant professional experience.

Find out more about transferring to Brookes. If you'd like to talk through your options, please contact our Admissions team.

Application process

Full time Home (UK) applicants

Apply through UCAS

Part time Home (UK) applicants

Apply direct to the University

International applicants

Apply direct to the University

Full time international applicants can also apply through UCAS

Tuition fees

Please see the fees note
Home (UK) full time
£9,250
Home (UK) part time
£1,155 per single module
International full time
£16,300
Home (UK) full time
£9,250*
Home (UK) part time
£1,155 per single module*
International full time
£17,100

Questions about fees?

Contact Student Finance on:

financefees@brookes.ac.uk

Tuition fees

2024 / 25
Home (UK) full time
£9,250
Home (UK) part time
£1,155 per single module
International full time
£16,300
2025 / 26
Home (UK) full time
£9,250*
Home (UK) part time
£1,155 per single module*
International full time
£17,100

Questions about fees?

Contact Student Finance on:

+44 (0)1865 534400

financefees@brookes.ac.uk

* Following the government’s announcement of 4 November 2024, we expect to increase our undergraduate tuition fees for UK students to £9,535 from the start of the 2025/26 academic year. Please visit The Education Hub for more information about the changes. We will confirm our fees for 2025/26 as soon as possible.

Please note, tuition fees for Home students may increase in subsequent years both for new and continuing students in line with an inflationary amount determined by government. Oxford Brookes University intends to maintain its fees for new and returning Home students at the maximum permitted level.

Tuition fees for International students may increase in subsequent years both for new and continuing students. 

The following factors will be taken into account by the University when it is setting the annual fees: inflationary measures such as the retail price indices, projected increases in University costs, changes in the level of funding received from Government sources, admissions statistics and access considerations including the availability of student support. 

How and when to pay

Tuition fee instalments for the semester are due by the Monday of week 1 of each semester. Students are not liable for full fees for that semester if they leave before week 4. If the leaving date is after week 4, full fees for the semester are payable.

  • For information on payment methods please see our Make a Payment page.
  • For information about refunds please visit our Refund policy page

Additional costs

Please be aware that some courses will involve some additional costs that are not covered by your fees. Specific additional costs for this course are detailed below.

Funding your studies

Financial support and scholarships

Featured funding opportunities available for this course.

Oxford Brookes Bursary for home students Undergraduate maintenance loans for part-time UK students Undergraduate maintenance loans for full-time UK students Undergraduate tuition fee loans for UK students Oxford Brookes Bursary Scheme

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Learning and assessment

We have designed this course to be relevant and versatile in the business and management sector.  It will also help prepare you for postgraduate study and continued professional development.
 
You will take a range of modules including:

  • Essential Skills for Academic Success - to help you transition to honours degree level work
  • Managing Careers - to focus on employability.

We support and encourage you to develop your own position and voice.

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Start this course in January or September

You can start this course in January if a September start doesn't suit you or is not currently offered for this course.

If you opt to start in January, in each of your 3 years, you will study your first semester between January and May and your second semester between September and December. There will be no teaching during June, July and August. 

Find out more about January entry

Study modules

Teaching for this course takes place Face to Face and you can expect around eight hours of contact time per week. In addition to this, you should also anticipate a workload of 1,200 hours per year. Teaching usually takes place Monday to Friday, between 9.00am and 6.00pm.

Contact hours involve activities such as lectures, seminars, practicals, assessments, and academic advising sessions. These hours differ by year of study and typically increase significantly during placements or other types of work-based learning.

Year 1

Compulsory modules

  • Business at the Cutting Edge

    Through this module you will equip yourself with the necessary skills to appreciate, understand, and cope within a fast paced, changing, challenging, and uncertain business environment. You will examine current disruptive innovations which are challenging the norms of business models and therefore academic thinking. Helping you to develop a cutting edge confidence with business understanding at the fast paced edge of the business world.

  • Essential Skills for Academic Success

    In this module you will start to develop your academic literacies to use on other modules across your final year programme including:
    • research skills
    • critical thinking
    • reflection
    • academic writing
    • and presentation skills.

  • Leading and Managing Change

    After completing this module, you will have an understanding of the nature of change and key theories, frameworks, principles and practices relevant for the management and leadership of change. You'll be able to evaluate critically the actions taken by those leading change. You will be better prepared to lead and manage change in your own managerial careers and have an increased awareness of your own potential for ongoing personal development in leading and managing change.

  • Managing Careers

    Build your knowledge of the theory and practice of career management. You will  demonstrate critical insight into your own knowledge, skills and experience and consider how this might allow you to manage your post-graduation career. You will also apply these ideas as you develop and run a learning activity for others. 

  • Business Ethics

    This module is designed to address our changing world that is facing social and environmental challenges. You’ll develop the capacity to make ethically defensible decisions as members of business organisations and of society in general. You’ll analyse and evaluate the ethical propositions of others. And you’ll evaluate the ethics of different systemic models of production, distribution and exchange.Upon completing this module you will be able to evaluate and apply ethical reasoning to local and global business dilemmas and economic systems, and you’ll be able to evaluate the significance of a range of western and non-western ethical perspectives.

  • Strategic Management

    Explore prevailing business themes and their impact on strategy at a corporate level. You will tackle contemporary business cases and evidence to explore the influences of key drivers at national and international levels on the strategies, behaviours and management of organisations.

  • Critical Enquiry Research Project

    Engage with an independent research project. This module will draw together your research skills developed earlier in the programme to support you to develop an extended study on a topic of your choosing within the business and management field. The project includes designing and implementing an investigation which takes account of multiple and possibly conflicting stakeholder objectives; applies suitable research approaches in an ethical manner; and communicates, using suitable technologies, with the intention of making recommendations for practice.

Please note: As our courses are reviewed regularly as part of our quality assurance framework, the modules you can choose from may vary from those shown here. The structure of the course may also mean some modules are not available to you.

Learning and teaching

Your learning experience will be exciting as well as challenging. You will have the opportunity to take part in:

  • live projects
  • problem-solving classes
  • and sessions where you consider the cutting edge of business. 

You will explore:

  • complex contemporary issues and challenges within organisations
  • problematising business and organisational life
  • the simulation of real world dilemmas and tensions.

We want you to enjoy developing the skills you will need to succeed in the competitive business world.

Assessment

Assessment methods used on this course

We use a variety of assessment methods, including:

  • written exams
  • practical exams
  • coursework.

We pay particular attention to when and how feedback is given to support your learning. Our feedback methods include:

  • audio
  • face-to-face
  • written feedback.

Your teaching and assessment activities will take place between Mondays and Fridays, 9am to 7pm. Activities may sometimes fall outside of these hours.

After you graduate

Career prospects

This course will enable you to secure positions in a range of settings, such as a multinational business, a major charity, education, health care or government, nationally or internationally. Students from our Business and Management programmes have gone on to graduate training schemes in international companies such as:

  • Aldi
  • AC Nielsen
  • IBM
  • Virgin Mobile
  • Intel
  • Yell Ltd
  • O2
  • Dell.

Our Careers Centre will support you in finding the right job for you. This degree prepares you to pursue a career as an Incorporated Engineer in Electronic Engineering and related disciplines.

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On rare occasions we may need to make changes to our course programmes after they have been published on the website. For more information, please visit our changes to programmes page.