Business Management and Marketing with Placement Year
University of Derby
UCAS Code: N2MP | Bachelor of Arts (with Honours) - BA (Hons)
University of Derby
UCAS Code: N2MP | Bachelor of Arts (with Honours) - BA (Hons)
Entry requirements
A level
Access to HE Diploma
Pearson BTEC Level 3 National Extended Diploma (first teaching from September 2016)
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About this course
**BA (Hons) Business Management and Marketing with Placement Year**
**Skills in business management and marketing make for a powerful combination. Our BA (Hons) Business Management and Marketing gives you a firm foundation for further professional qualifications plus the confidence and creativity to shape marketing strategies at the highest level.**
**Why choose this course?**
You will gain a Chartered Management Institute (CMI) Level 5 Diploma alongside your degree to accelerate your career ambitions. As this course is also accredited by the Chartered Institute of Marketing (CIM), you can gain exemptions towards the CIM Certificate in Professional Marketing too.
**Is this course for you?**
If you want to become a business manager with a thorough grasp of marketing innovation, this course offers a distinctive, stimulating learning experience.
**How you will learn**
Drawing on our links with prominent marketing professionals and business leaders, you can enhance your CV through work-related learning, live projects, case studies and business simulations. You will build practical skills in everything from social media marketing to market sensing.
**Boost your employability with a placement year**
You’ll have the opportunity to take a placement year to put the skills you’ve learned into practice in a real-world environment. We'll support you to find your placement and throughout your year in industry. Placements allow you to gain valuable experience to add to your CV, make industry contacts and help you to narrow down what kind of role you may be interested in after graduation.
**Careers and employability**
BA (Hons) Business Management and Marketing marks you out as an ambitious professional with the potential for rapid promotion. Our graduates now work in companies such as the BBC, Capita and Centrica while others have set up their own businesses.
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University of Derby
Derby Business School
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