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Birkbeck, University of London

UCAS Code: N125 | Bachelor of Science (with Honours) - BSc (Hons)

Entry requirements

GCSE/National 4/National 5

You will normally be expected to have grade C or grade 4 GCSE-level English and mathematics.?If you do not hold this level of qualification you may be required to carry out a skills audit at a selection evening, which comprises English and mathematics. This audit assesses your potential to cope with, and benefit from, a particular programme of study.

UCAS Tariff

48

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About this course

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Course option

4years

Full-time including foundation year | 2025

Other options

6 years | Part-time | 2025

Subjects

Business studies

Enterprise and entrepreneurship

Our new BSc Entrepreneurship and Innovation gives you the opportunity to develop the skills you need to manage innovations and digital transformations in organisations. This course will also help develop your entrepreneurial skills to support new, start-up businesses. You will learn about the theories, models and roles of management, including the management of people, together with understanding rational analysis and other processes of decision-making within different organisations. You will gain knowledge and insight into the importance of businesses innovating to change in order to survive and grow.

The course is designed to respond to the changing educational, cultural, personal and career needs of our students. After you successfully complete this BSc Entrepreneurship and Innovation, you will be ready for further study, if you wish to, on one of the master’s business degree courses at Birkbeck, such as the MSc Entrepreneurship.

This entrepreneurship and innovation degree links research expertise - showcased by our Centre for Innovation Management Research - with teaching. It also links in with a host of extracurricular support, through Birkbeck’s Enterprise Pathways, for those interested in starting or growing their own business.

You can study this course full- or part-time. You can also choose your own timetable for the core modules **selecting whether to study them in the evening or in the daytime**.

**Foundation Year**
If you opt for the Foundation Year route, this will fully prepare you for undergraduate study. It is ideal if you are returning to study after a gap, or if you have not previously studied the relevant subjects, or if you didn't achieve the grades you need for a place on your chosen undergraduate degree.

**Highlights**

- Birkbeck's Enterprise Pathways offer you further support in starting up your own business or helping it grow, with workshops, guest speakers, events and enterprise competitions.

- Birkbeck is an internationally recognised centre of excellence in teaching, research and consultancy in the broad field of management.

- Our academic staff are active researchers, as well as enthusiastic teachers, and regularly publish cutting-edge articles in the world's leading journals.

- We have particular research strengths in international business and strategy, the management of innovation and entrepreneurship, human resource management, corporate governance, sport management and marketing, as well as financial management and accounting.

- We engage in significant collaborative research and have excellent contacts with many public and private sector organisations, professional bodies and researchers at other academic institutions.

**Careers and employability**

Our graduates begin new careers or accelerate along their current career path because what they learn can be applied almost instantly. For this reason, our alumni include chief executives, senior business leaders, notable academics and public figures.

You will find graduates in the following kinds of roles in business or management in a domestic or international context, in large as well as small start-up organisations:

- innovation manager

- new business development manager

- digital transformation manager

- innovation consultant

- innovation catalyst.

We offer a comprehensive careers service - Careers and Enterprise - your career partner during your time at Birkbeck and beyond. At every stage of your career journey, we empower you to take ownership of your future, helping you to make the connection between your experience, education and future ambitions.

Modules

For information about course structure and the modules you will be studying, please visit Birkbeck’s online prospectus.

Assessment methods

Depending on the module: tests, presentations, written essays and examinations. In the final year of studies, you will independently design and complete a large written assignment, in the form of a research project/dissertation.

Tuition fees

Select where you currently live to see what you'll pay:

England
£5,760
per year
International
£18,060
per year
Northern Ireland
£5,760
per year
Scotland
£5,760
per year
Wales
£5,760
per year

The Uni

Course location:

Birkbeck, University of London

Department:

Birkbeck Business School

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What students say

We've crunched the numbers to see if the overall teaching satisfaction score here is high, medium or low compared to students studying this subject(s) at other universities.

85%
Business studies

How do students rate their degree experience?

The stats below relate to the general subject area/s at this university, not this specific course. We show this where there isn’t enough data about the course, or where this is the most detailed info available to us.

Business studies

Teaching and learning

78%
Staff make the subject interesting
75%
Staff are good at explaining things
79%
Ideas and concepts are explored in-depth
73%
Opportunities to apply what I've learned

Assessment and feedback

Feedback on work has been timely
Feedback on work has been helpful
Staff are contactable when needed
Good advice available when making study choices

Resources and organisation

80%
Library resources
92%
IT resources
79%
Course specific equipment and facilities
69%
Course is well organised and has run smoothly

Student voice

Staff value students' opinions
Feel part of a community on my course

Who studies this subject and how do they get on?

81%
UK students
19%
International students
50%
Male students
50%
Female students
67%
2:1 or above
15%
First year drop out rate

Most popular A-Levels studied (and grade achieved)

B
B
D

Business studies

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Who studies this subject and how do they get on?

81%
UK students
19%
International students
50%
Male students
50%
Female students
67%
2:1 or above
15%
First year drop out rate

Most popular A-Levels studied (and grade achieved)

B
B
D

After graduation

The stats in this section relate to the general subject area/s at this university – not this specific course. We show this where there isn't enough data about the course, or where this is the most detailed info available to us.

Business studies

What are graduates doing after six months?

This is what graduates told us they were doing (and earning), shortly after completing their course. We've crunched the numbers to show you if these immediate prospects are high, medium or low, compared to those studying this subject/s at other universities.

£35,000
high
Average annual salary
55%
med
Employed in a role where degree was essential or beneficial

Top job areas of graduates

The number of business studies graduates fell significantly last year after a long period of increase. But there were still more than 14,000 degrees awarded and this is the third most popular subject for new graduates. Because so many graduates get business studies degrees, you can find them everywhere in the economy, and very few jobs are completely out of reach for a good business studies graduate. Around 40% go into jobs in finance, sales, recruitment, management (particularly retail) or marketing. There is also a small (but well paid) group who take their technical skills into computing and IT. Thousands of graduates from this subject go into professional jobs every year, and average starting salaries are above the average for all subjects and particularly healthy in London where they top £25k. Graduates with good degree grades in business studies are much more likely to get good jobs, so don’t be complacent, and keep a close eye on your grades.

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This is usually because there were too few respondents in the data we receive to be able to provide results about the subject at this university.

What about your long term prospects?

Looking further ahead, below is a rough guide for what graduates went on to earn.

Business studies

The graph shows median earnings of graduates who achieved a degree in this subject area one, three and five years after graduating from here.

£29k

£29k

£34k

£34k

£35k

£35k

Note: this data only looks at employees (and not those who are self-employed or also studying) and covers a broad sample of graduates and the various paths they've taken, which might not always be a direct result of their degree.

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This is usually because there were too few respondents in the data we receive to be able to provide results about the subject at this university.

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Post-six month graduation stats:

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It offers a snapshot of what grads went on to do six months later, what they were earning on average, and whether they felt their degree helped them obtain a 'graduate role'. We calculate a mean rating to indicate if this is high, medium or low compared to other universities.

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