BA (Hons) Global Business and Entrepreneurship with Foundation Year
Our BA (Hons) Global Business and Entrepreneurship with Foundation Year course is designed to infuse you with the essential elements to maximise your entrepreneurial potential.
Intakes
February, July and October
Duration
4 years including Foundation year
Awarding Institution
BA (Hons) Global Business and Entrepreneurship with Foundation Year
Weekdays, evenings and/or weekends
Locations
London, Birmingham, Manchester, Leeds
Fees
£9,250 per year
Course Overview
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 — this course is designed for you.
Our BA (Hons) Global Business and Entrepreneurship with Foundation Year course provides a different pathway toward 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 course helps you build the necessary skills and basic understanding needed to be successful during the following three years. The following years 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 BA (Hons) Global Business and Entrepreneurship with Foundation Year prepares students with what they need to realise the potential of their own business ideas — from the awareness to spot lucrative opportunities to the skills needed to make them a reality. This course has an engaging structure that also takes students through dynamic organisations and how they generate employment opportunities, economic growth and social transformation.
Students will constantly test their learning and ideas, practising entrepreneurship in real-world scenarios in the classroom — building business planning skills critical for entrepreneurial success. Students will also explore 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.
Our industry experts will provide a clear understanding of how to launch and grow businesses from scratch and where to look for potential pitfalls along the journey. Our students will also benefit from personalised face-to-face academic, career, financial and well-being support from our welfare team
This course uses an authentic assessment strategy to ensure that each module takes students into realistic real-life situations, providing a formative pathway for assessing the learning goals of both specific modules and the overall programme. The assessments in the majority of the modules allow students to use their own business ideas, therefore allowing students to receive feedback and time to reflect and develop their own proposals further.
Assessment on the course is designed to provide suitable opportunities for all students to demonstrate a full range of knowledge, skills and competencies that are key in Business. Assessment methods include essays, reports, real-life simulations, presentations, projects and group debates.
You will be required to work in your own time to complete research, homework tasks or group work. Self-study is vital to your success in this course and lecturers will give you guidance on how best to approach this throughout the study period.
Assessment methods at GBS are reviewed annually and may be updated based on student feedback, to suit content or based upon feedback from an External Examiner. An External Examiner is an independent academic expert from an external Higher Education Institution that acts as a safeguard to academic assessment standards
Foundation Year
– IT Essentials
– Academic Research and Writing Skills
– Introduction to Business and Entrepreneurship
– Entrepreneurial People and Processes
– Business Environment
– Fundamentals of Finance
Year 1
– Entrepreneurial Recognition, Ideas and Opportunities
– Managerial Finance
– Introduction to Marketing
– Introduction to Business Strategy
– Entrepreneurial Organisations
– Project Management
Year 2
– Business Ideas and Opportunities Generation
– Digital Marketing and Social Media in Business
– Financing a Business Venture and Legal Aspects
– Social Entrepreneurship
– Business Planning and Pitching
– Entrepreneurial Development
Year 3
– Market Research
– Global Strategies
– Project
– Contemporary Issues in Entrepreneurship
– Contemporary Issues in Events and Hospitality
– Contemporary Issues in IT and Communications
– Contemporary Issues in Professional Business Services
– Contemporary Issues in Supply Chain
Education
80 UCAS tariff points (or above) or 60 Credit Ofqual qualification at Level 3.
All applicants are assessed by the admission team via interview for listening and speaking and for writing via a personal reflection statement.
Applicants aged 21+
If applicants do not meet the standard entry requirements, we will also consider those with life/work skills which would make them suitable for undergraduate study with a Foundation programme.
All Applicants
All applicants must be assessed by the admission team via interview for listening and speaking and for writing via a personal reflection statement.
Documents required:
– Application form
– Supervised Personal reflection statement
– Personal interview
Funding your study
All students can access student finance.
Tuition Fee Loans
A Tuition Fee Loan covers the cost of your tuition fees. This is paid directly to your awarding institution (in this case Oxford Brookes University). Loan repayments only start once you have finished your course and are earning £26,575 a year or more. Both full- and part-time learners can apply.
Maintenance Loans
If you are eligible, you can also apply for a Maintenance Loan to cover living expenses. This loan is paid directly into your bank account at the start of term. Maintenance Loans has are repaid after you finish your course and your earnings are above £26,575 per year. For more information, please visit gov.uk/studentfinance.
Maintenance Grants
You can also apply for a Maintenance Grant to help with living costs. Maintenance Grants are paid directly into your bank account at the start of term. You don’t have to pay them back, but any funds you get will reduce the size of the Maintenance Loan you could receive, should you also wish to apply for one.
New students must prove they have been living in the UK for five years before their course start date in order to get living cost support from Student Finance England.
For more information please click here for course fees or call us +44 (0)20 3011 2638