Bachelor of Science (Honours) - Business Management with Communications (N190)

The BSc Business Management with Communications programme, with teaching from industry experienced staff, sees students gain graduate jobs globally, with alumni at Jaguar Land Rover, Barclays, Lloyds, Disney, PwC, Ogilvy, Edelman, Sky, Channel 4 and McCann.

BSc Business Management with Communications offers an exciting mix of a solid business management programme with a twist of creativity. It equips students with the knowledge and skills needed to understand business, management, marketing and communication on both a national and global scale. This established programme benefits from Birmingham Business School’s strong links with global companies, with teaching from industry experts. Students enjoy hands-on application of theory in a series of workshops, supported by industry professionals.

Practical small group workshops facilitate experiential learning in a creative environment, allowing students to explore and devise communications and marketing collateral for business. Students will also study a wide range of topics from the Business Management programme, allowing them to keep their career options open, and to demonstrate a broad understanding of business and a wide range of transferable skills.

The first year provides a broad-based business management foundation with Principles of Marketing as a foundational module, including specialist communications guest lectures. In the second and final years, students will study contemporary communications strategies with more Marketing options to suit, whilst uniquely building a portfolio via creative campaign workshops, including producing marketing video for the web.

In the final year, there is the opportunity to undertake a summer placement, for example with a public relations, marketing or social media agency, or students will complete an internship for a large company in a marketing or communications role.