Program Overview

Business today depends on individuals who can make and evaluate data-led business decisions. Our practical Business Management with Business Analytics degree will give you the skills and knowledge to this to launch your career as a confident lateral thinker who is up-to-date on the latest theory and practice.

• In our fast-paced, data-driven modern world, business analysts help organisations turn big data into big ideas. On this Business Management with Business Analytics BSc you’ll gain data-led insights and optimise businesses by using descriptive, predictive and prescriptive analytics.
• By the time you graduate, you will be able to show critical understanding, apply, and evaluate principles and concepts related to business analytics to support making informed decisions across a range of national and international business and organisational sectors.
• Our teaching is at the forefront of the field and is influenced by real industry insights. All academics within Surrey Business School are research-active and some are advisers to world-renowned organisations.
• You’ll have the option to take one of our award-winning Professional Training placements that will prepare you for roles in industry.

This bachelor's degree in Business Management with Business Analytics will help you to develop business analytics skills, which are highly sought after in today’s challenging economic environment, and give you the opportunity to study both the latest academic research and industry trends in this dynamic field.

The course offers a variety of exciting modules such as classical business analytics, big data analytics methods and tools applied in the business world in addition to cutting-edge modules such as AI for business.

You’ll engage in real-life cases through guest speakers from top organisations, visits and internship possibilities, and a final-year business challenge, which will allow you to explore more advanced business analytics topics of your choice.

The two business analytics consultancy modules will be part of your final year and are part of a substantial piece of academic research based on a real-life problem. This will give you the opportunity to meet organisations trying to solve a business challenge or it could be a problem of your own choice.

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 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)