Taught by top researchers in their field, our Business Studies and Management degrees give you a practical overview of how businesses and managers operate in an international environment and provide you with an excellent foundation in the core disciplines of management studies. We encourage you to study individually and collectively through group projects, presentations, practical case studies and business simulations. If you follow our BSc programme, you will specialise in two optional areas of management alongside our core modules. On our BBA course, you will take a range of optional courses from different areas of management. Both degrees include a year of paid employment in a suitable organisation; for the BBA this year is compulsory and part of a four-year programme, on the BSc it is optional. You start your degree with a critical introduction to Business and Management, and Business Analytics. You will also study other modules from across departments within the Management School. In the second and final years of your degree, you will take further compulsory modules in Business and Management plus options from other Management School departments. If you choose one of our Study Abroad degrees, you will spend the second year of your course undertaking similar modules in one of our partner universities. Your third year consists of a supervised placement in industry.

Our degrees open the widest variety of career pathways in national and international firms, both private and public, as well as in small and medium companies around the world. Some graduates also go on to start up businesses themselves. Recent graduates have begun their careers as trainee graduate managers, project managers, brand managers, hotel and property managers. Our alumni are working for a wide variety of employers – from established corporates like BP, IBM, Johnson & Johnson and Sellafield to modern brands like Innocent Drinks. Our courses are designed to develop your conceptual understanding and provide practice-based insights. You will develop your personal competencies including communications and mathematic abilities. Such skills have helped recent graduates find work in a wide variety of roles in banking, retail, consultancy, sales and marketing and data analysis. Some former graduates are pursuing their studies with PCGE teacher training or professional qualifications. Many have stayed at Lancaster, for Masters degrees in subjects such as Management, Finance, Cyber Security and Human Resource and Knowledge Management. Lancaster University is dedicated to ensuring you not only gain a highly reputable degree, you also graduate with the relevant life and work based skills. We are unique in that every student is eligible to participate in The Lancaster Award which offers you the opportunity to complete key activities such as work experience, employability awareness, career development, campus community and social development. Visit our Employability section for full details. Lancaster Management School has an award winning careers team to provide a dedicated careers and placement service offering a range of innovative services for management school students. Our high reputation means we attract a wide range of leading global employers to campus offering you the opportunity to interact with graduate recruiters from day 1 of your degree.