Business Studies (Placement Year)

Start your successful career in business with us. In your first year, you will gain knowledge and skills in business fundamentals; marketing, digital business, and finance, as well as gaining insights into your own personal effectiveness and emotional intelligence. In your second and third years, you can choose from a vast range of specialist business modules to make your course your own. Our diverse mix of specialist modules enables us to offer a choice in assessment methods including presentations, digital artefacts, portfolios and business reports to ensure you are ready for the workplace. Throughout your time with us, you will be supported by our close-knit community of experienced and enthusiastic academics and practitioners, as well as a Personal Academic Tutor who will stay with you throughout your studies to provide help and guidance.

Sustainability promise

We are proud to ensure sustainability is at the heart of what we teach - all our modules are mapped against the Sustainable Development Goals. We are in the Top 10 for embedding sustainability into our teaching (SDG Teach In Leaderboard, SOS-UK, 2023).

Future employment

Your business career is supported by our dedicated colleagues in Business Development, Careers, and Placements who will work closely with you to ensure your success. You can optimise your employability through various types/lengths of paid placements and other opportunities to work with the vast range of local SMEs or large national enterprises through our award-nominated Springboard programme. The University of Worcester has excellent employment prospects, being 2nd in the country (excluding specialist institutions) for sustained employment, further study or both, 5 years after graduation (Longitudinal Educational Outcomes Survey, 2023).

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