Business Management and Entrepreneurship (including Foundation) BSc (Hons)

Kingston University

Reasons to choose Kingston

• You’ll gain insights into all aspects of business, as well as specific support from industry experts and entrepreneurs.
• Kingston Business School holds the Small Business Charter Award, highlighting its expertise in supporting small businesses and student entrepreneurship. The School has received a Business Accreditation by the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB).
• The School provides training and support for small businesses and entrepreneurs across the country, linking you to a wide network of people who can support you.
• Our commitment to high quality teaching has been recognised with a Teaching Excellence Framework (TEF) Gold rating. The University has received an overall rating of Gold, as well as securing a Gold award in the framework's two new student experience and student outcomes categories.

About this course

Do you have your own business or aspire to start your own? Do you see yourself working as an entrepreneur? If so, this course is ideal for you.

You’ll gain knowledge of business strategy, project management, start-up creation and growth design thinking, and finance and accounting. You’ll also learn to design and implement innovative management, technological change, develop entrepreneurship skills, and gain first-hand experience in managing and leading entrepreneurial teams.

With full support from the University, the course enables you to start a business. We’re proudly ranked one of the top two UK higher education institutions for graduate start-ups for the past 10 years (HESA 2020/21).

This course is offered with a Foundation Year in Business. The foundation year takes place the year before your degree. You will study at Kingston College and cover topics including professional skills, numerical concepts, business IT, marketing, customer care, and business law. Upon successful completion of this foundation year, you will progress to Year 1 of this degree.

Future Skills

Embedded within every course curriculum and throughout the whole Kingston experience, Future Skills will play a role in shaping you to become a future-proof graduate, providing you with the skills most valued by employers such as problem-solving, digital competency, and adaptability. As you progress through your degree, you'll learn to navigate, explore and apply these graduate skills, learning to demonstrate and articulate to employers how future skills give you the edge. At Kingston University, we're not just keeping up with change, we're creating it.

Career opportunities

You’ll graduate with key skills, ready to create a business or work within one and build its market success. These crucial skills are also key for intrapreneurs inside larger organisations.

Accredited by the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB).