Program Overview
The BSc Business Management (Top-up) from the University of Roehampton is a one-year program designed for students with prior business management studies. It emphasizes practical learning, ethical decision-making, and the development of skills valued by employers. The program provides a comprehensive understanding of business management through coursework, case studies, and projects, preparing students for careers in various business sectors.
Program Outline
BSc Business Management (Top-up) - University of Roehampton, London
Degree Overview:
This program is a top-up degree designed for students who have already completed 240 credits towards a business management degree. It aims to provide a solid understanding of business management through practical-based learning with academic experts and working professionals. The program emphasizes developing the knowledge and skills that employers value, including critical thinking, responsible action, and adaptability in volatile, ambiguous, and complex situations.
Outline:
Year 3:
Compulsory Modules:
- Business Ethics and Responsible Management: This module explores the moral and ethical challenges in managing organizations. It examines how managers can approach their work with ethical thinking while balancing social responsibility and performance targets. Students will critically analyze real-world scandals and explore concepts like corporate social responsibility and stakeholder obligations.
- Applied Corporate Strategy: This module provides a comprehensive understanding of strategy development and application. Students will learn essential concepts and tools for gaining and sustaining competitive advantage. The module focuses on the strategic position of organizations, competitive advantage, and evaluation of business strategies at both business and corporate levels. It concludes with an examination of implementation focused on organizational culture.
Required Zero-Credit Module:
- Business Readiness (Year 3): This module runs throughout the degree and focuses on enhancing employment skills and competencies. It aligns with the Chartered Management Institute employability framework and maps onto the program's modules.
Optional Modules - Semester 1:
- International Human Resource Management: This module explores the challenges of managing human resources in a globalized context. It examines how organizations adapt HRM policies and practices to different institutional contexts and national cultures. Students will analyze research on comparative and international HRM to develop the knowledge needed to contribute to organizations operating across international borders.
- Labour Economics: This module examines the factors influencing labor supply and demand. It explores issues like education, retirement, and firm behavior in the context of the labor market. Students will analyze government policies and their impact on the labor market.
- Entrepreneurship Development: This module provides practical and theoretical insights into entrepreneurship using the lean-start-up process. Students will learn how to create new ventures with high growth potential and gain valuable skills for working in small businesses.
- Sales, Advertising and PR: This module delves into the critical tools of effective marketing communications. Students will explore communication planning, advertising, PR, paid, owned, and earned media, sales techniques, measurement techniques, and global media trends. They will also learn about ethical and legal considerations in marketing communications.
Optional Modules - Semester 2:
- Global Marketing: This module equips students with practical marketing skills for a globalized world. It focuses on the importance of global marketing for UK businesses, the changing global marketplace, and strategies for entering new foreign markets. Students will develop a customized marketing plan for a UK SME.
- The Economics of Money, Banking and Finance: This module provides a comprehensive understanding of investment and financial management. Students will learn how to make informed investment decisions, build an investment portfolio, and manage their finances effectively. It also explores sustainable investment options.
- Managing Innovation: This module examines the role of innovation in organizational survival and growth. Students will explore how organizations develop and manage innovation activities, analyze real-life cases, and develop commercial awareness.
- Retail Issues and Applications: This module examines critical issues in the retail sector, including branding, e-tailing, multichannel retailing, internationalization, global sourcing, customer relationship management, and corporate social responsibility.
- Active Citizenship: This module explores the concepts of citizenship and political engagement. Students will learn skills for having their voices heard and campaigning for social change. It examines the barriers to engagement and explores how to overcome them.
- Earth in Crisis: Interdisciplinary Approaches: This module offers an interdisciplinary understanding of global ecological crises. It explores approaches to tackling these crises from different disciplines, including scientific, legal, economic, and literary perspectives.
Other Optional Modules:
- Business and Management Dissertation (Part 1 & 2): This module allows students to conduct an individual research project on an applied business problem or issue. Students will develop a research question, plan a methodology, gather data, and present their findings in a dissertation.
- Managing Innovation: This module examines the role of innovation in organizational survival and growth. Students will explore how organizations develop and manage innovation activities, analyze real-life cases, and develop commercial awareness.
- Management Consultancy Skills: This module introduces students to the practice of consultancy. Students will learn key skills for carrying out consultancy work, including client engagement, communication, data gathering, analysis, project management, and team management.
- Management Consultancy Project: This module allows students to apply their consultancy skills to a real-life project for an external organization. Students will work in groups to understand the client's needs, conduct research, and present recommendations.
- Contemporary Issues in Management: This module explores contemporary issues in business and management, including the future of consumption, enterprise, and work. Students will examine innovations and technologies like digital transformation, AI, blockchain, and extended organizational ecosystems.
Assessment:
The program uses a variety of assessment methods, including coursework, reports, exams (on Accountancy and Finance modules only), online tests, portfolio evaluation, case studies, critical posters, consultancy projects, and using the Bloomberg terminal to track performance of a live asset. These methods help students demonstrate their knowledge and skills in a practical and engaging way.
Teaching:
The program is delivered through a modern, practice-based curriculum with a focus on sustainability. Students will learn in high-spec facilities, like the Business Laboratory and the Bloomberg Trading Room. The program emphasizes a diverse learning community that values excellence, reflection, inclusivity, ethics, and collaboration.
Careers:
The BSc Business Management (Top-up) degree is an ideal launchpad for careers in accounting and finance, international business, retail, marketing, and human resources. The program provides students with the skills and knowledge they need to succeed in a variety of business roles.
Other:
The program is open to all students in the UK and overseas who wish to transfer to complete the final year of an undergraduate degree, as well as students who have completed study at one of Roehampton's partner institutions. The program is designed to prepare students for the world of work from day one, with regular access to employability events, guest industry speakers, networking opportunities, personalized mentoring, and careers support.
| Year | Fees | | ----------- | ----------- | | Year one fees | UK: £9,250 | | | EU and International: £15,750 |
