Bachelor in Business & Management (2-year Accelerated Degree) - Grado en Negocios y Dirección

This accelerated degree means that you will complete your studies in just two years, kickstarting your career and reducing education costs. With AACSB accreditation and strong industry ties, you’ll gain a competitive edge.

112- 128 tariff points (A-level grades BCC–BBB) including a minimum of 2 A-levels or equivalent qualifications. We also accept a wide range of vocational qualifications including BTEC Extended Diploma (grade DMM-DDM) and T Levels (Merit).

International entry requirements:
If English is not your first language you´ll need IELTS (Academic) 6.0 with a minimum 5.5 in each component, or equivalent.

Study a diverse subject that opens doors to work in any industry, anywhere in the world
Learn at a university with strong industry connections and a global reputation
Enhance your experience with a summer placement in Year 1 or an Advanced Applied Business Project, gaining hands-on experience and leadership skills for tackling strategic business challenges
Receive ongoing support and guidance throughout your assessments, with regular feedback and resources to help you succeed
Benefit from continuous career support and coaching, ensuring you’re fully prepared and confident for success in the job market. ​

Semester 1 (starting September)
Developing Management Competencies: You’ll be exposed to real-life business and management challenges, enabling you to develop interpersonal, organisational, transferable, creative and reflective learning skills, as well as a learning culture founded on mutual support, empathy and respect
Global Business Environment: An introduction to the fundamentals of the external global business context, enabling you to understand business-related political, economic, social and technological news stories and developments
Introduction to Accounting: Expand your knowledge and skills needed to progress to further study of financial reporting and/or financial analysis by studying the fundamentals of accounting.
Semester 2 (starting January)
Organisational Behaviour & Responsible Management: This unit covers the individual, psychological and social aspects relating to people in organisations and the systems that govern them
Business Simulation: Through simulation, you will gain invaluable hands-on experience by analysing data and collaborating with your peers to resolve dilemmas, making managerial decisions.
Fundamentals of Marketing: By identifying interesting marketing problems, you’ll understand the range of marketing solutions available and learn how to develop appropriate marketing strategies by focusing on real-life case studies.
Semester 3 (starting June)
Recruiting, Selecting & Retaining Talent: You will be encouraged to develop an understanding of the recruitment and selection process, and contemporary recruitment and selection techniques, while developing an understanding of their position in relation to the wider talent pool.

Optional units:
Work Experience with a portfolio: As part of the optional 6-week placement, you will develop industry-facing competencies by reflecting on the placement experiences and evaluating your professional growth. Additionally, you will explore and reflect on current or future workplace challenges, considering potential management approaches to address them.
Or
Applied Business Project: The Applied Business Project is an independently-managed unit, which aims to develop and enhance your self-management, critical thinking, analytical, evaluative and reflective skills, as well as your personal commitment, resilience and resourcefulness. The unit further aims to enhance your ability to make assumptions, manage information gaps and tolerate ambiguity, complexity and uncertainty.

YEAR 2

Semester 1 (starting September)
Digital Marketing Fundamentals: This unit provides a practical communication focused perspective of the rapidly evolving digital world, offering practical assistance in shaping professional digital identity and footprint
Global Operations Management: This unit will cover the impact global operations management has on the business as a whole and the close relationship of operations management with other business functions.

Optional units
Contemporary Issues in HRM: The main contemporary issues and themes within human resource management will be covered in this unit, providing you with an understanding of the role of a HR professional and the key aspects of ‘adding value’ to an organisation through enhancing performance.
Or
Entrepreneurship & Business Ventures: Learn how individuals and teams build on opportunities to create new businesses or transform existing ones by undertaking entrepreneurial activities.

Semester 2 (starting January)
Strategic Management: You’ll develop the ability to apply appropriate tools and techniques to critically analyse the organisation and its environment, learning about the development of competitive marketing strategy and operations
Organisational Leadership: The aim of this unit is to critically explore leadership styles, theories and followership concepts in a range of organisational contexts.
Optional units
Project Management: Provides a practical communication focused perspective of the rapidly evolving digital world. As such it offers students practical assistance in shaping professional digital identity and footprint.
Or
Branding and Integrated Communications: Covers strategic issues of integration and planning as well as the tactical considerations needed to execute relevant marketing communications campaigns that meet consumers’ needs.
Semester 3 (starting June)
Business Futures: The aim of this unit is to equip you with the knowledge and skills needed to anticipate and respond to future challenges and opportunities in business, management and society. The unit will provide you with practical tools, conceptual frameworks and methodologies to explore and address real-world issues across various industries.

Optional units
Practice-based Project: Hacking for Sustainability: This is a team-based consultancy-style project, which will give you the opportunity to work on challenging sustainability problems faced by large organisations, such as the Ministry of Defence (MoD). This Project involves working in a team, as well as with stakeholders and a client, and includes a mix of ‘real-life’ individual and group deliverables.
Or
Consultancy Project: This unit gives you the opportunity, individually or as part of a team, to work on a real-life project brief, putting into practice your project management and CRM skills, to deliver a product, service or outcome for your client.

Example roles our graduates take on include:

Account Executive
Account Manager
Business Analyst
Business Development Assistant
Operations Manager.