Business Management

The BSc (Hons) Business Management will give you an interdisciplinary, practical and theoretical understanding of how different business types operate.

Why study BSc Business Management at Goldsmiths

• You’ll be exposed to a range of business fields such as marketing, finance, economics, information systems and computing, which will aid your academic learning and prepare you to enter the job market successfully.

• Broad and in-depth insights into the realities you’ll face within organisations will provide you with an interdisciplinary understanding of business.

• Your learning will be informed by current marketplace developments, helping to prepare you to tackle the challenges faced by today’s global businesses.

• You will develop transferable skills to equip you for your future after university. This will include: becoming a co-creator of knowledge, learning to think critically; developing project management skills through group project work and gaining qualitative and quantitative research skills across your modules and dissertation.

• Your studies will prepare you for working in a range of businesses or how to become the leader of your own business.

• From workshops on career paths and employability to the opportunity to meet industry speakers, you’ll be able to expand your network and build your own industry contacts.

Year 1 (credit level 4)
In your first year you will study the following compulsory modules:
Strategic Management
Foundations of Economics 1: Theories
Foundations of Economics 2: Business Applications
Understanding Entrepreneurship
Introduction to Marketing
Finance and Accounting
Identity, Agency & Environment 1
Identity, Agency & Environment 2

Year 2 (credit level 5)
In your second year, you will study the following compulsory modules:
Market Research and Consumer Insight
My Career Strategy
Business in the Digital Economy
The Goldsmiths Elective
Production Innovation and Management
Corporate Finance

You'll also complete a 15 credit option module from within the Institute of Management Studies.

Year 3 (credit level 6)
Compulsory modules in your third year include:
Leadership and Talent Management
International Business
Organisational Behaviour
Social Responsibilities of Management
Spreadsheet Modelling for Business
Innovation Case Studies

You will also choose two optional modules from an approved list.
One of these is the Work Placement module, which is completed in the summer between Year 2 and 3.

Please note that due to staff research commitments not all of these modules may be available every year.

You’ll be assessed by a variety of methods, depending on your module choices. These may include examinations, group work, presentations and projects.