Business and Enterprise Management BA (Hons)

Sheffield Hallam University

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Course summary

• Reinforce your ideas with a solid grounding of business theory
• Gain real-world insights from enterprising leaders, innovators and experts.
• Apply your skills on a paid placement year, or embark on the Placement Year Enterprise Scheme. You may also be able to work or study abroad with the possibility of funding through the Erasmus programme (until 2023) or the Turing Scheme.

Release your inner entrepreneur with this creative course and make your mark in the world of business. Focus not only on theoretics and technical analysis, but also modern business acumen. You'll graduate with confidence and empowerment, ready to join a great company or go it alone.

How you learn

All our courses are designed around a set of key principles based on engaging you with the world, collaborating with others, challenging you to think in new ways, and providing you with a supportive environment in which you can thrive.

You’ll work with real businesses, developing solutions while building your profile with hands-on experience and industry interaction. You’ll tailor your learning through specialist and elective modules – taught in state-of-the-art facilities by experts in the world of business and academia.

You learn through:

• lectures and seminars
• in-class discussions and debates
• field trips
• group tasks
• individual projects
• digital learning platforms
• case studies
• presentations to peers and businesses
• business plans
• reflective journals
• project reports
• gamification

Applied learning

Work placements

You’ll have the opportunity to arrange a year-long work placement in between your second and third years. This gives you a real-world experience to prepare you for your future career, as well as useful industry contacts. Previous placement years have taken place at organisations such as 3M, BAE Systems, Hoya Lens UK, Microsoft, River Island and Asda.

There’s also an opportunity to receive support in running your own business during this time. The Placement Year Enterprise Scheme allows you to receive a bursary from the University's Research and Innovation Office, alongside useful advice and facilities in the business centre. This support is also available for up to five years after you graduate.

Field trips

You’ll have the opportunity to attend field trips throughout your time on the course. Recent field trips include students running pop-up shops at Sheffield Maker’s Market in St Mary’s Church & Conference Centre, and working with local secondary schools to deliver creative activity workshops to pupils.

Networking opportunities

You’ll have plenty of networking opportunities throughout the course – with frequent guest speakers, a placement year and a close relationship with the local business community and our alumni. There’s also extensive extracurricular activity in this field, particularly from the highly active, student-run Enterprise Society.