Undergraduate Qualifications

Our flexible qualification structure leads from certificate to diploma to degree.

You can study for a certificate, or put it towards a diploma and stop there, or carry on towards an honours degree. Whatever you decide, each award is a valuable qualification in its own right.

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BA (Honours) Business Management

Asks how businesses develop strategies, handle risk and take decisions – exploring functions such as marketing, accounting and finance. Relates these questions to your own experience and equips you for a wide range of employment opportunities.
BA (Honours) Business Management and Languages

This degree allows you to combine business management with French, German or Spanish. You’ll divide your study equally between both subjects. You’ll explore how businesses develop strategies, handle risk and take decisions. Combining this with the study of a modern language opens doors to other cultures and communities, and can provide a key to the global workplace.
BA/BSc (Honours) Open degree

The UK’s most flexible degree programme that lets you study any subjects you like, in any combination – enabling you to build a unique qualification that exactly matches your personal and professional development needs.
BSc (Honours) Accounting and Finance

As the world of accounting and finance becomes more complex, this specialist degree is designed to provide you with a thorough understanding of the role of accounting and finance/financial management within business and society. Offers exemptions from some Chartered Institute of Management Accountants (CIMA) professional examinations.
BSc (Honours) Computing & IT and Business

Designed to familiarise you with the business world and give you specialist IT knowledge – enabling you to offer employers a wide ranging and highly valuable skillset that meets the needs of today’s technology-dependent organisations.
Diploma of Higher Education in Accounting and Finance

This specialist diploma is designed to provide you with an understanding of the role of accounting and financial management within business and today’s society to an intermediate level.
Diploma of Higher Education in Business Management

Explores the nature of contemporary business organisations – from their processes, core functions and structure to their culture and behavior – and wider aspects such as the markets and environments in which they operate.
Certificate of Higher Education in Business Management

Explores the essentials of business and management. Choose a broad approach, or focus on leadership practice, accounting, economics, innovation & enterprise or marketing – with optional modules including communication, personal finance or mathematics.