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.

Our award-winning Professional Training placement scheme gives you the chance to spend a year in industry, either in the UK or abroad.

We have thousands of placement providers to choose from, most of which offer pay. So, become one of our many students who have had their lives and career choices transformed.

Business management placements

At the Surrey Business School, our close links with national and international businesses of all sizes and across all sectors are reflected in the companies with which our students have been placed, including:

• Admiral Group plc
• Allianz Management Services
• Ericsson
• IBM
• Oracle
• UTC Aerospace Systems.

Your Professional Training placement, if selected, would be taken within your chosen pathway and can be spent in the UK or abroad.