Program Overview

Gain a degree in business and enterprise management, with an initial foundation year to prepare for the course.

• Prepare for the degree with an extra foundation year at the start.
• Bolster your ideas with a solid grounding of business theory.
• Learn from enterprising leaders, innovators and experts.
• Apply your skills on a paid placement year, or embark on the Placement Year Enterprise Scheme.
• Collaborate with others, and enjoy extensive extracurricular activity.

Release your inner entrepreneur with a course focused on creativity, and make your mark in the world of business. Focus not only on theoretical grounding and technical analysis, but also business acumen and creativity in the modern world. You'll graduate with confidence and empowerment, ready to join a great company or go it alone.

How you learn
All our courses are designed around a set of key principles based on engaging you with the world, collaborating with others, challenging you to think in new ways, and providing you with a supportive environment in which you can thrive.

The course is suitable if you don't meet the entry requirements for our BA (Hons) Business and Enterprise Management course, or you want extra preparation before starting degree-level study. You share the first year with other Sheffield Business School foundation year students, then move on to the degree.

You work with real businesses and develop solutions while continually building your own profile with hands-on experience and industry interaction. You tailor your learning through specialist and elective modules taught by experts from the world of business and academia, in state-of-the-art facilities.

You learn through

• Lectures and seminars
• In-class discussions and debates
• Field trips
• Group tasks
• Individual projects
• Digital learning platforms
• Case studies
• Formal presentations to peers and businesses
• Fully considered business plans
• Reflective journals
• Project reports
• Gamification

In the foundation year, you'll study wider business topics, while specialising in your chosen subject area. You'll learn useful skills such as academic writing, work in diverse teams and learn to utilise a wide variety of data sources. In doing so, you'll fully prepare yourself for undergraduate study.