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.

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.

Our Professional Training placements offer you the opportunity to put your skills and understanding of analytics into practice in a business environment. You’ll be able to gain invaluable experience for your future career.

Placements are available in a range of organisations, including large corporations, city institutions and government departments. Students will have the opportunity to continue working with their placement employers by basing their final year challenge project on work related to their placement. This results in a project with a strong industrial focus that demonstrates their ability to apply academic knowledge to real-world problems.