Students are employed by an organisation throughout their course and combine full-time studies with the immediate application of work-based learning activities to connect their learning to their roles. Modules are undertaken sequentially rather than in parallel and all contribute to individual meta-skills development.
Year 1
Developing knowledge and academic skills to identify and understand the business environment in which organisations operate, purposes, structures, functions, governance, legal implications, core values and ethics, role of HR, introduction to financial and management accounting and application to business scenarios.
Year 2
Widening appreciation and analysis skills to determine scope of management operations, business development, marketing and sales, operational strategies, principles of procurement, significance of collaboration in supply chain management, key sources of finance, basic economic principles and applications to practical business situations.
Year 3
Increasing abilities to critically analyse management practices: project management within organisations, purpose, tools and techniques, risk and compliance management, practice of learning and development, digital business and data analysis, principles of cybersecurity and management of IT systems.
Year 4
Undertaking extended research and critique of a specialist area of management in a work-based and business related topic, relevant to their sector and organisation, impact of external environmental forces on contemporary strategic thinking, strategic decision-making in specific organisational settings, principal concepts of innovation, drivers within business, society and economy.
2025 entry requirements
4 Highers at BBBC.
You must be in (or in process of looking for) a GA position with an employer; contact institution for further information.
September
Degree
BA Hons
Full time
TBC
4 years
Aberdeen Business School
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