Business Management (Accelerated)

This course is designed to provide you with a broad range of knowledge, understanding and skills relevant to business and management that will enable you to excel in a wide range of jobs once you graduate.

The accelerated nature of the course means that within three years you both complete three years of academic study and, through a compulsory internship, achieve a year of work experience.

This course allows you to learn more about the broad area of business and management and the specialist occupations such as marketing, operations management, human resource management and finance and so is readily adaptable and flexible to a wide range of business and management orientations.

Your first year of study will incorporate traditional modes of learning such as lectures and seminars, alongside business simulations, enterprise and project work, company projects and development plans and reports.

During your second year you will study your academic modules alongside working full time. You will attend study support days at NBS and will be supported face-to-face and at distance by tutors. You’ll have access to resources and feedback throughout and will be further supported by an academic mentor. As you will be working in a company, the majority of your assignments will be based on your own work, learning and development and the activities and practices of your placement company.

In Year Three you will return to Nottingham Business School and, in addition to core project and subject-based modules, you will be involved in mentoring first year students and running a student-led conference.

The course is accredited by the Chartered Management Institute (CMI). Nottingham Business School at NTU is accredited by EQUIS and AACSB, which are internationally recognised hallmarks of excellence and quality for business education. We are one of only nine UK business schools recognised as a PRME Champion, and held up as an exemplar by the United Nations Principles of Responsible Management Education (PRME). NBS is also recognised by the Small Business Charter, as we play an effective role in supporting small businesses, local economies and student entrepreneurship.

Year One

Personal and Academic Development
Accounting and Finance for Managers
Economics and Data Analysis for Managers
Foundations of Managing and Organising
Principles of Marketing
Business Management in Practice

Year Two

Managing Human Resources
Business Analytics for Managers
Marketing Management
Internship Module

Final Year

Managing Change
Leadership and Employability
Research Project

Plus one from :

Strategic Marketing
Managing Creativity, Design and Innovation
Managing Information and Knowledge Strategically
Corporate Governance and Risk Management
Global Supply Chain Strategy
Comparative and International Management

This course comprises a broad range of assessments including examinations, business reports, presentations/posters, digital outputs, theoretically focused papers and reflective pieces. Class-based assessments might include individual or group presentations, phase tests and seminar tasks, while individual assessments will include on line self-tests, written responses to case studies, short articles and essays.

Many of your tasks will be experiential in nature, drawing on real world business issues and problems in the form of case studies, workplace simulations and other work-like experiences such as consultancy exercises. Whilst you are on your internship the majority of assessment points are work-based in nature.

Professionally accredited courses provide industry-wide recognition of the quality of your qualification.

• AACSB International
• EQUIS
• Chartered Management Institute