BA (Hons) Business Studies (Top up)

UCAS code: N100

Start date: September

Course length: full time: one year

Campus: Kedleston Road site, Derby Campus

This course is available to international students

This top up degree is a great way to build on and develop the knowledge you've already gained on your HND or Foundation degree. You'll develop wide ranging skills and be ready for a variety of career paths, which all means you'll be highly employable when you graduate.

You'll start to develop your strategic knowledge and you'll have true flexibility through option choices. You can really play to your strengths and develop your expertise in areas where you see your career developing. You can choose from a wide range of optional modules, including marketing and PR, people management, economics and information systems.

You'll take the core module Issues in Global Business Consultancy which is a case study of current issues, such as the collapse of Lehman Brothers. It takes a discussion approach and is very practical. You'll be looking at where things went wrong, what could have been done, what would you have done?

Throughout the course you'll be using current case studies and examples, and will also benefit from guest lectures from industry speakers.

We'll also prepare you for the workplace. You won't only learn about business but we'll teach you, and develop in you, the skills employers are looking for in their graduate employees. This ranges from report writing and analysing market and financial data through to presentation skills.

Final stage

• Issues in Global Business and Strategic Concepts - double module (Through*)

And you will choose four option modules from:

• Brand Impact and Popular Culture
• Consumer Behaviour
• Consumer Law for Business
• Delivering Winning Projects
• Enterprise Strategy and Concepts
• Financial Statement Analysis    
• Improving Business Performance
• Independent Study (double module) 
• Information Systems 
• International Entrepreneurship     
• Global Talent Management 
• International Purchasing and Supply Chain Management  
• Investing and Financial Markets      
• Strategic Management of Human Resources    
• Sustainable Development and International Business Law

*Through - this is a module that runs through the Autumn and Spring semesters.

If you completed your foundation degree, DipHE, CertHE or HND in the 2011/12 academic year

You'll pay fees and receive funding under the existing fees system rather than the new 2012 system. You must continue studying in the same way ie if you were studying full time you must take this course as a full time course.

UK/EU students

• Full time: £3,465 (in total)

International students

• Full time: £9,700 (in total)

If you completed your course in the 2010/11 academic year or earlier

You'll pay 2012/13 fees and receive the new student financial support.

This is a classroom based course.

UK/EU students

• Full time: £6,995 (each year)

International students

• Full time: £9,700 (each year)

*These fees apply if you're starting this course between September 2012 and August 2013. We recommend you check fee details with us though, as they can change. Costs can increase each year.

• You'll have a great start to your business career as you'll have an understanding of all the business disciplines.
• Our business graduates have gone on to work in many areas, including sales, operations, HR, marketing and accounts. These positions have been in companies such as Shell and IBM, through to small businesses and family businesses.
• You could choose to progress straight on to a masters degree which is just one more year of full time study, and you'll be eligible for a 10% fee discount as a Derby graduate.

"I work as a sales manager and the research I did for my dissertation proved very valuable in my day to day work. I found the lecturers to be very helpful and encouraging, especially towards 'mature' students who had been out of higher education."

Dale Spademan

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