Business Management (Top Up)
Build on your existing qualifications and earn an undergraduate degree in less than a year with this Business Management top-up course.
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Key Course Details
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UCAS Code
N194
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Start Date
September
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Location
Pontypridd
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Campus Code
A
Fees
Home students
£9,535*
International students
£15,850*
- Full-time fees are per year. Part-time fees are per 20 credits.
This course, combined with its specialism pathways, provides a contemporary business education across various disciplines, equipping you with the skills needed for the ever-evolving labour market and enhancing your business and management abilities.
DESIGNED FOR
Students who have already obtained a HND or equivalent qualification and wish to gain a full bachelor’s degree in business and management.
Career paths
- Entrepreneur
- Business manager
- Management consultant
- Project manager
- Account executive
Skills taught
- Business awareness
- Interpersonal skills
- Problem solving
- Self-management
- Entrepreneurial mindset
Course Highlights
Module Overview
You will study a variety of modules designed to enhance your business and management skills over two 12-week terms. The first term will get you up-to-speed with business management theory and you will have the opportunity to tailor your learning to suit your career goals and interests in term two.
Term one
- Applied Management
- Business Research: Principles and Practice
- Business Strategy
- Enhancing Academic Success
Term two
In term two, you will complete a Live Management Project along with two of the following optional modules:
- Principles of Corporate Finance (optional)
- Principles of Accounting (optional)
- Excellence in Customer Service (optional)
- Business Ethics and Sustainability (optional)
- HRM 4.0 and the Future of Work (optional)
- Professional Selling and Business Development (optional)
- Logistics and Material Management (optional)
- Commercial Procurement (optional)
- Contemporary Global Leadership (optional)
In the first term, you will complete four core modules designed to strengthen your confidence in business management theory and practical skills.
Applied Management
Develop the knowledge and skills necessary to embark on a career in middle management.
Business Strategy
Gain a holistic and strategic view of organisations and their environments. Explore themes like trading, innovation, and cross-cultural management while learning to analyse global business challenges.
Business Research: Principles and Practice
Build essential skills and learn about techniques needed to conduct a real investigation into a business problem.
Enhancing Academic Success
This non-credit bearing module is designed to support students to develop their academic and business skills for future employment.
In the second term, you will complete a Live Management Project along with two optional modules.
Live Management Project (specified)
Develop your professional business management skills as you draw on your learnings and apply them in a live project activity alongside a supervising tutor.
Principles of Corporate Finance (optional)
Develop a critical awareness of the theories and techniques of corporate finance.
Principles of Accounting (optional)
You’ll explore the fundamental principles of financial accounting, financial reporting and management accounting in a business management context.
Excellence in Customer Service (optional)
Understand the importance of customer service excellence, the contemporary issues affecting customers and develop the skills to aid analysis of customer service requirements.
Business Ethics and Sustainability (optional)
You will develop your critical understanding of sustainable business issues and how they can be managed, promoted and developed in a business context.
HRM 4.0 and the Future of Work (optional)
Draw on your existing knowledge of HR whilst developing a deeper understanding of current issues and potential future changes to the profession.
Professional Selling and Business Development (optional)
Develop key skills in professional selling and sales management while gaining insights into marketing, innovation and buyer behaviours.
Logistics and Material Management (optional)
Examine techniques and strategies for planning, organising and managing the overall logistics process including the functional areas of forecasting, inventory management and customer service.
Commercial Procurement (optional)
You will explore the theory and practical application that underpins the processes involved in formation of commercial agreements and relationships with external organisations.
Contemporary Global Leadership (optional)
This module provides aspiring managers with insights into leadership in a global context. You will enhance your understanding of the challenges of leading a diverse, modern workforce and develop key people management skills.
Course Highlights
How you’ll learn
Our business and management top up course is broken into two 12-week terms. You will learn through interactive in-person teaching sessions in the form of lectures and workshops that are based on active learning techniques and allow for plenty of collaboration and discussion.
Teaching is based on real scenarios and recent case studies and students will have the opportunity to work with businesses as part of various modules. By taking this approach, students can stay up to date with current trends and business developments as well as building confidence and skills for the world of work.
A range of methods will be used for assessment, including presentations, essays, portfolios, examination and in-class tests.
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Teaching staff
Our teaching staff are dedicated to creating a supportive, student-centred learning environment and are all qualified academics with experience working in many sectors including retail, marketing, accounting and finance, logistics and supply chain, strategy, leadership and management. Their backgrounds in a range of environments give students an insight into various industries and help connect theory to practice.
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Placements and work experience
There is an opportunity for students to engage with virtual internships alongside their studies allowing them to collaborate with a variety of businesses and help them to tackle their real-world challenges. These are extra-curricular opportunities for students and are a great opportunity to develop valuable practical skills and experience for a CV.
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Facilities
As a business and management student, you’ll be studying at our Treforest campus in the heart of the South Wales Valleys. We have a range of bookable learning and studying environments within the business school that students use for collaboration and working. Students can also benefit from our dedicated startup incubator, Start-Up Stiwdio, which has been designed to help develop and grow new business ideas. Students with a passion for entrepreneurship can get advice on how to start their own businesses and grow their network through various events.
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ENTRY REQUIREMENTS
Typical qualification requirements:
Successful completion of a HND in Business Studies or Business & Accounting, a Foundation Degree in Business Studies, Service Sector Management or Retail Management, or an equivalent qualification e.g. a Diploma in Higher Education or ILM Leadership and Management (Level 5).
Consideration will be made on an individual basis for alternative qualifications and/or relevant experience providing students can demonstrate sufficient related knowledge and understanding to equip them for level 6 study in a business discipline. Applicants will need to demonstrate 240 credits (or equivalent) and the University’s Recognition of Prior Learning (RPL) policy may feature in the decision to offer a place on the course. Relevant experience, qualifications and knowledge should be referenced in the Applicant’s personal statement
International applications welcomed:
We welcome international applications with equivalent qualifications of our entry requirements. For more details related to your country of residence, please view our dedicated country pages.
English language requirements
International applicants will need to have achieved an overall of IELTS 6.0 with a minimum of 5.5 in each component/TOEFL 72 overall and a minimum of 18 in reading, 17 in listening, 20 in speaking and 17 in writing or equivalent.
Equivalents can be located on our English Language pages.
If you have previously studied through the medium of English, IELTS might not be required, please visit our country specific page for further details. If your country is not featured, please contact us.
If you do not meet the English entry criteria, please visit our Pre-Sessional course pages.
Contextual offers
We may make you a lower offer based on a range of factors, including your background (where you live and the school or college that you attended, for example), your experiences and individual circumstances (as a care leaver, for example). This is referred to as a contextual offer, and we receive data from UCAS to support us in making these decisions.
USW prides itself on its student experience and we support our students to achieve their goals and become a successful graduate. This approach helps us to support students who have the potential to succeed and who may have faced barriers that make it more difficult to access university.
We're here to help
Whether you a have a question about your course, fees and funding, the application process or anything else, there are plenty of ways you can get in touch, and we'd love to talk to you. You can contact our friendly admissions team by phone, email or chat to us online.
Fees and Funding
£9,535
per year*£15,850
per year*Additional Costs
As a student of USW, you’ll have access to lots of free resources to support your study and learning, such as textbooks, publications, online journals, laptops, and plenty of remote-access resources. Whilst in most cases these resources are more than sufficient in supporting you with completing your course, additional costs, both obligatory and optional, may be required or requested for the likes of travel, memberships, experience days, stationery, printing, or equipment.
The University has computers available on campus and laptops for loan. However, it is highly recommended that you have your own personal laptop, which will be capable of running Microsoft Office 365. As a student you will be able to download a free copy of any software relevant to the course.
Cost: Up to £250
University Quality Assurance
At USW, we regularly review our courses in response to changing patterns of employment and skills demand to ensure we offer learning designed to reflect today’s student needs and tomorrow’s employer demands.
If during a review process course content is significantly changed, we’ll write to inform you and talk you through the changes for the coming year. But whatever the outcome, we aim to equip our students with the skillset and the mindset to succeed whatever tomorrow may bring. Your future, future-proofed.
How to apply
All applications for full-time undergraduate courses or foundation degrees should be made via UCAS. Take the next step: Apply through UCAS. You can apply to us directly for all part-time undergraduate courses, if you’re seeking advanced entry or you’re an international student. To apply directly, please choose the application form below for your preferred start date and mode of study (full-time or part-time.)
Advanced entry
If you already have a relevant qualification or experience related to the course you're applying for, you may be eligible to start at a later stage of the course. For example, students from partner colleges can ‘top up’ their qualifications to a degree by joining us in Year Two or Year Three of a course. This process is known as ‘advanced entry’, you can apply directly to the University for 'advanced entry' using the application forms provided above.
International admissions
International applicants can apply to us directly. If the University has an in-country team in your region, your application will be assigned to them for assistance.
Life at USW
Halls are a big part of your student experience and there’s accommodation at all three of our locations. If you don’t want to live near the campus, there are great transport links to keep you connected.