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If you are looking for a platform to develop your technical understanding of business, with a vocational structure that continually improves and develops your entrepreneurial mindset — our business course is designed for you.
Our BA Global Business and Entrepreneurship with Foundation Year is a business management course that provides a different pathway towards achieving your academic and professional aspirations — particularly if you need a course that can be structured around your work and family commitments.
The Foundation Year of this business course helps you build the necessary skills and basic understanding needed to be successful during the following three years. The following years on your business and management degree will gradually increase the intensity of your learning — building your understanding of entrepreneurship and new venture management while also providing unique learning pathways to explore during the final year.
Our business and management degree, which is delivered in either London, Birmingham, Manchester or Leeds, prepares you to realise the potential of your own business ideas — from the awareness to spot lucrative opportunities to the skills needed to make them a reality. This business course has an engaging structure that also takes you through dynamic organisations and how they generate employment opportunities, economic growth and social transformation.
You will constantly test your learning and ideas, practising entrepreneurship in real-world scenarios in the classroom — building business planning skills critical for entrepreneurial success. This business course also explores the theory and practice of entrepreneurship in different contexts gaining a clear understanding of how strategy, tactics and innovation are valued in different business models.
On this business course, our industry experts will provide a clear understanding of how to launch and grow businesses and where to look for potential pitfalls along the journey. On this business and management degree, you will also benefit from personalised face-to-face academic, career, financial and well-being support from our welfare team.
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Intakes | February, July and September |
Duration | 4 years including Foundation year |
Awarding Institution | Oxford Brookes University |
Awarded Degree | BA (Hons) Global Business and Entrepreneurship with Foundation Year |
Locations | London, Birmingham, Manchester, Leeds |
Fees |
£9,250 per year
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We offer degrees with a difference. 10 campuses across four of the UK’s biggest and most exciting cities: London, Birmingham, Manchester and Leeds.
Our industry-focused degrees will accelerate your career to new heights. Our lecturers are academic experts who’ll help you develop the right industry skills.
A Student Loan can cover the entire cost of your undergraduate course. If you are eligible, you can apply for a Maintenance Loan too. Speak to GBS for more information.
Our flexible timetables are designed to fit around your busy lifestyle. So, you can study at a time that suits you – whether that’s weekdays, evenings, or even the weekend.
Our exceptional student support offers you regular one-to-one academic, personal and career guidance from the moment you apply until the day you graduate.
Our students have, for the fifth year in a row, provided GBS with an impressive outcome in the National Student Survey 2024, reflecting the outstanding work we do to support our students.
GBS has won Higher Education Provider of the Year at the Education Awards two years in a row in 2023 and 2024.
We are diverse with our amazing students represented by over 80 countries.
Delivery: Weekdays, evenings and/or weekends.
Locations: London, Birmingham, Manchester, Leeds.