BSc (Hons) Information Technology Management for Business (ITMB)

Program Overview

This degree program combines technical expertise in IT with business and professional skills. It provides a balance of programming, database design, and project management while emphasizing employability through industry partnerships, live projects, and career-focused activities. Graduates are well-equipped for management or consultancy roles in the IT industry, with strong communication, problem-solving, and analytical abilities.

Program Outline

Degree Overview:

This course combines IT knowledge and technical ability with developing business and professional skills. It addresses the skills gap reported by employers and aims to make graduates highly employable. Throughout the course, students will work on this balance of technical and soft skills, preparing for a rewarding career in management or consultancy roles within the IT industry. Business networking events, live projects and employer-led workshops all contribute to the career focus of this course. In recognition that this course meets industry standards for content, delivery and assessment, it is accredited by the Tech Partnership Degrees as a Tech Industry Gold degree.

Outline:

• Programming: This module covers basic programming concepts and fundamentals using the Java programming language.
Topics include: an overview of programming paradigms and techniques, analysis of problems and design using pseudo-code and flowcharts, basic program elements and structure, and development supported by version-controlled code repositories.
• Skills for IS Professionals: This module helps students gain a range of academic and transferable skills that support their studies.
Topics include tools and techniques for managing small-scale projects, effective group-work strategies, employability and PDP, and skills in quantitative methods to lay the groundwork for future modules.
• Developing a Digital Identity: This introductory module guides students in creating a website, teaching them the basic principles and practical skills of good design.
Students will apply these principles in an appropriate layout that visually communicates their own online identity. They will use popular web development software and gain background knowledge of underlying technologies such as HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.
• Information Systems and Databases: This module equips students with the knowledge and skills to design and implement a relational database.
It covers information security and database management issues and emphasizes the central role of relational and other types of databases.
• Introduction to Business Management: Students will gain a broad understanding of business management in the modern world and learn about the external and internal business environments.
The external business environment covers the political context within business, legal structures of businesses in private and public sectors, and corporate responsibility. The internal business environment covers organizational structure and functional areas, organizational behaviour, culture and values, individual and personal behaviour, group and team processes, accounting, and finance.

Level 5

Compulsory Modules:

• Enterprise and Business Development: This module evaluates the skills and approaches entrepreneurs bring to the process of value creation and the factors that encourage the move to entrepreneurship.
Students will learn to locate, analyze, and evaluate sources of information related to the development of a business plan that demonstrates the commercial viability of a proposed business start-up.
• Managing Business Operations: This practical module teaches students about the processes that produce or deliver goods and services.
Topics explored include designing processes, making decisions about location, layout, and capacity management, managing the supply chain, and managing quality.
• Mobile Web App Development: This module provides experience in developing mobile web applications and introduces the tools, languages, and design techniques required for building functional applications.
Students will gain exposure to a programming language that can support native mobile application development and be introduced to the Model-View-Controller (MVC) software design pattern.
• Network and Security: This module identifies fundamental issues in computer networks and their security and studies approaches for addressing these issues.
Students will be able to understand emerging network technology more quickly by learning these principles.
• Digital Business: This module aims to equip students with knowledge and understanding of the e-business environment.
They will be able to compare the efficacy of different business models for e-commerce, identify and evaluate factors and technologies that contribute to effective online content, and understand the regulatory, ethical, and security issues associated with digital business solutions.
• Group Project: Students will take a practitioner's approach to the problems of developing software applications for a business case study using Agile methods.
This module provides experience working collaboratively to develop a web-based system, exploring business process analysis and a range of other techniques as a means of establishing system requirements. Studies will apply to the management of individual projects as well as to team leader roles in the management of larger-scale commercial projects.
• Business Intelligence Technologies: This module introduces machine learning and data mining techniques typically used in business applications.
Students will develop a toolbox of quantitative analytical techniques and skills to build solutions for various business scenarios.
• Project: In the final year of the degree course, students will create their own project with a high degree of independence.
They will be allocated a supervisor and given the freedom to create a piece of work that represents them as a student. They will be guided and supported, but this is their vision and chance to show the world what they have achieved while at UWL.
• Business Strategy in the Digital Environment: This module explores how digital technologies and ICT can support business and organizational strategy by helping to manage data, information, and knowledge.
Students will have the opportunity to explore a range of current business Information Systems/ICT technologies in terms of developing appropriate business, technology, information, and service architectures.
• Enterprise Security Management: This module emphasizes the security requirements for enterprises in the digital world.
It takes an explicit approach toward identifying the security risks for organizations in the current era and delves into a holistic approach to address/mitigate against these risks. The content of the module will include:
• Introduction to a digital enterprise
• Threats to enterprise infrastructure
• Authentication and Authorization for enterprise networks
• Risk Assessment
• Intrusion Detection and Response
• Security Auditing
• Backup and Disaster recovery
• Emerging trends for enterprise security

Teaching:

Regular lectures from industry specialists on a range of contemporary topics, employer networking, workshops, and live projects are part of the curriculum.

Careers:

Graduates of this course could go on to work in IT/ICT management, business strategy and planning, systems analysis and design, IT consultancy, social media management, IT/IS project management, web development, database design/administration, IT support (help desk), and data analytics. Students can also progress their studies to explore a related field or specialize on a postgraduate course.

Other:

All students are welcome on this course. There is a close-knit ITMB student community and bi-annual ITMB Away Days, designed to improve skills through career-focused activities with students from across the UK. Many students meet their future employers at these events. The placement route for this course is open to UK students only. As of the time of this information, there is no guarantee that placement opportunities will be available in the future due to unprecedented and unpredictable times.

UK Tuition Fees:

£9,250 per year

International Tuition Fees:

£16,250 per year The fee above is the cost per year of your course. If your course runs for two years or more, you will need to pay the fee for each academic year at the start of that year. If your course runs for less than two years, the cost above is for your full course and you will need to pay the full fee upfront. Government regulation does affect tuition fees and the fees listed for courses starting in the 2025/26 academic year are subject to change.