Program Overview

As a Business Management student at Surrey, we’ll equip you with a wide range of relevant highly transferable, and sought-after skills, to make you stand out from the crowd in the workplace. You’ll also be able to take advantage of our close links with national and international businesses of all sizes and across all sectors through an optional Professional Training placement.

• As a Surrey Business School student, you’ll get hands-on experience with real businesses, and gain entrepreneurial and life skills that will equip you to start your own business or lead a team
• Our faculty are experts in their fields and will inspire you to think critically and creatively.
• We’re renowned for our excellent research, dynamic learning environment and strong links with industry.
• Our core BSc (Hons) Business Management course offers a wide choice of optional modules and gives you the opportunity to explore how organisations of all sizes start, run and thrive.
• You’ll have the option to take one of our award-winning Professional Training placements that will prepare you for roles in industry.
• All our business management students follow the same first year which means you can transfer to one of our specialised business pathway programmes.

The world of business is wide and complex, which is why your first year of study will focus on building foundations of effective business management, with modules that provide you with a strong base of knowledge in the essentials of the subject. First year modules cover essential topics such as data analysis, marketing, people management, operations, and sustainability.

From there, your further two years of study offer a wide selection of optional modules allowing you to specialise in the area of business you prefer and prepare for your successful career after graduating.

Modules are based on a variety of topics, including business ethics, entrepreneurship, finance, project management, data analytics and information systems to ensure variety.

All our business management students follow the same first year in order to build a solid foundation on which to specialise. This means you can transfer to any of our specialist business management degree pathways:

• Business Management with Business Analytics BSc (Hons)
• Business Management with Entrepreneurship and Innovation BSc (Hons)
• Business Management with Marketing BSc (Hons)
• International Business Management BSc (Hons)
• Business Management with Human Resource Management BSc (Hons)