Our Business Studies course (with pathways) is unique in giving you the flexibility to keep your specialisation options open until your second year of study. This offers you the best of both worlds: broad-based first and second years and a specialised final year The course includes a 40-week paid placement, working at some of the world’s most innovative and influential businesses, including Xerox, Barclays, British Airways, Hewlett-Packard, Vauxhall Motors, IBM, Wella and Nokia to name a few, which gives your career a head start Our students perform extremely well during their placements; employers are always impressed with their abilities and many of our students return to their placement company upon graduation Fantastic graduate employment opportunities - 91% of our students are in work/study six months after finishing (HEFCE data) BA (Hons) Business Studies is our longest running course. This course will provide you with the knowledge, understanding and skills in the areas of financial and management accounting with the organisational context. Many decisions made within organisations have a financial dimension and use accounting information, so it is important for you to understand and be able to contribute to such discussions in the workplace. Accounting and finance use an increasingly international language in order to meet the challenge presented by the globalisation of many business sectors. Financial and accounting skills are extremely valuable in a wide variety of business situations, and continue to be sought after by all types of commercial and non-commercial organisations.

Our Business School is known by employers and students for its excellent graduate employment rates, which are always well above the national average. We have frequently been rated amongst the top Universities in the country for graduate employment by both the Guardian and Financial Times. Our graduates are highly sought after and are often offered jobs at the placement companies they worked for in Year 3. Key employers utilise our active Graduate Employment Service to advertise graduate vacancies.