Business Management and Digital Innovation (including Foundation Year)

Reasons to choose Kingston

• In just three years, you’ll graduate with a business degree and the real-life practical experience and skills that employers are looking for.

• This course is designed and developed in collaboration with industry experts across different areas of the business world to ensure content reflects latest trends, challenges and practices.

• Kingston Business School has been recognized for quality by the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB). This award is earned by just five percent of the world’s business schools.

• Graduate employability is embedded in module activities and extracurricular events such as networking with industry professionals, hackathons and speed interviewing.

• Our commitment to high quality teaching has been recognised with a Teaching Excellence Framework (TEF) Gold rating. The University has received an overall rating of Gold, as well as securing a Gold award in the framework's two new student experience and student outcomes categories.

About this course
This new course will cover the fundamentals of the business eco-system and the key current and future aspects of developing data and digital enhanced solutions in business. This area includes the disruption nature of technology on business models and also provides exposure to how technology can drive value in areas such as finance, marketing, supply chain, service design, sustainability and human resource management.

The course will prepare you to manage technology informed projects in a responsible and sustainable way. A key strand is entrepreneurship and design – developing your ability to respond proactively to current business problems and priorities.

This course is offered with a Foundation Year in Business
The foundation year takes place the year before your degree. You will study at Kingston College and cover topics including professional skills, numerical concepts, business IT, marketing, customer care, and business law. Upon successful completion of this foundation year, you will progress to Year 1 of this degree.

Future Skills
Embedded within every course curriculum and throughout the whole Kingston experience, Future Skills will play a role in shaping you to become a future-proof graduate, providing you with the skills most valued by employers such as problem-solving, digital competency, and adaptability.

As you progress through your degree, you'll learn to navigate, explore and apply these graduate skills, learning to demonstrate and articulate to employers how future skills give you the edge.

At Kingston University, we're not just keeping up with change, we're creating it.

Career opportunities
This course will enable you to work in a variety of organisations, from large companies to SMEs. You will be supported to start your own businesses or progress to postgraduate degrees and professional qualifications.

Example modules

• Leadership, Transformation, and Complexity
• Global Business Environments
• Digital Innovation and Transformation
• Technology in Focus

To view the full list of modules, please visit the University course webpage.

Assessment typically comprises exams (e.g. test or exam), practical (e.g. presentations, performance) and coursework (e.g. essays, reports, self-assessment, portfolios, dissertation).