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BSc Business and Management (Entrepreneurship) with Placement Year

  • UCAS code
    N289
  • Typical offer
    ABB
  • Year of entry
    2023/24
  • Course duration
    Full Time:  4 Years
  • Year of entry
    2023/24
  • Course duration
    Full Time:  4 Years

Develop the skills to become a successful entrepreneur in the rapidly changing world of business – and gain valuable real-world experience – with our BSc Business and Management (Entrepreneurship) with Placement Year degree.

This four-year programme, taught by experts from Henley Business School, combines the rigour of a management degree with the creative spirit of entrepreneurship.  You’ll gain the expertise to embark on your own business venture, with modules covering opportunity recognition and evaluation, financing, “growth-hacking”, and resource management. An integrated Placement Year provides a fantastic opportunity to put your skills into practice in preparation for your future career.

Your studies will provide:

  • a solid foundation in business, marketing, and entrepreneurial finance
  • practical entrepreneurial techniques, including lean start-up, business model generation, and design thinking
  • hands-on experience in business development and sales
  • the ability to manage and direct yourself as an entrepreneur
  • the opportunity to create a business idea through the Entrepreneurial Project module.

In your final year, you will also have the option to run your own business with support and mentorship from the Henley Centre for Entrepreneurship.

Throughout your degree, you will also study the core disciplines that underpin business – including economics, psychology and sociology – and explore theories and concepts such as:

  • international strategy
  • organisational behaviour
  • operations
  • data analytics
  • human resource management
  • accounting.

You’ll learn through a combination of lectures, seminars, practical workshops, and self-guided study. This will provide the opportunity to discuss subject materials in an in-depth way with your lecturers and fellow students.

Choose BSc Business and Management (Entrepreneurship) with Placement Year at Henley Business School

  • Ranked 6th for graduate prospects in Business, Management & Marketing in the Guardian University Guide, 2020.
  • Triple-accredited status from the UK, European and US accrediting bodies (AMBA, EQUIS and AACSB).

Flexible study options

After the first year of your BSc Business and Management (Entrepreneurship) with Placement Year degree, you will have the option to transfer to any of our other specialist pathways:

  • BSc Business and Management (Accounting)
  • BSc Business and Management (Data Analytics and Digital Business)
  • BSc Business and Management (Marketing)
  • BSc International Business and Management
  • BSc International Business and Management with a Modern Language

Alternatively, you could transfer onto the more general BSc Business and Management where you’ll be offered a wide range of options in your second and final years – allowing you to tailor your learning to your individual interests.

We also offer two other variations of this course: BSc Business and Management (Entrepreneurship), a three-year course without a Placement Year; and BSc Business and Management (Entrepreneurship) with Study Year Abroad, a four-year course with a year studying overseas instead of on placement.

Placement Year in industry

In your third year, you’ll have the opportunity to gain valuable experience in a real-world setting with our Work Placement module.

We will support you to find and secure a placement that’s right for you.

As well as enriching your studies, an industry placement can be an excellent way to:

•    deepen your knowledge and develop new skills
•    build a network of industry contacts

Overview

Develop the skills to become a successful entrepreneur in the rapidly changing world of business – and gain valuable real-world experience – with our BSc Business and Management (Entrepreneurship) with Placement Year degree.

This four-year programme, taught by experts from Henley Business School, combines the rigour of a management degree with the creative spirit of entrepreneurship.  You’ll gain the expertise to embark on your own business venture, with modules covering opportunity recognition and evaluation, financing, “growth-hacking”, and resource management. An integrated Placement Year provides a fantastic opportunity to put your skills into practice in preparation for your future career.

Your studies will provide:

  • a solid foundation in business, marketing, and entrepreneurial finance
  • practical entrepreneurial techniques, including lean start-up, business model generation, and design thinking
  • hands-on experience in business development and sales
  • the ability to manage and direct yourself as an entrepreneur
  • the opportunity to create a business idea through the Entrepreneurial Project module.

In your final year, you will also have the option to run your own business with support and mentorship from the Henley Centre for Entrepreneurship.

Throughout your degree, you will also study the core disciplines that underpin business – including economics, psychology and sociology – and explore theories and concepts such as:

  • international strategy
  • organisational behaviour
  • operations
  • data analytics
  • human resource management
  • accounting.

You’ll learn through a combination of lectures, seminars, practical workshops, and self-guided study. This will provide the opportunity to discuss subject materials in an in-depth way with your lecturers and fellow students.

Choose BSc Business and Management (Entrepreneurship) with Placement Year at Henley Business School

  • Ranked 6th for graduate prospects in Business, Management & Marketing in the Guardian University Guide, 2020.
  • Triple-accredited status from the UK, European and US accrediting bodies (AMBA, EQUIS and AACSB).

Flexible study options

After the first year of your BSc Business and Management (Entrepreneurship) with Placement Year degree, you will have the option to transfer to any of our other specialist pathways:

  • BSc Business and Management (Accounting)
  • BSc Business and Management (Data Analytics and Digital Business)
  • BSc Business and Management (Marketing)
  • BSc International Business and Management
  • BSc International Business and Management with a Modern Language

Alternatively, you could transfer onto the more general BSc Business and Management where you’ll be offered a wide range of options in your second and final years – allowing you to tailor your learning to your individual interests.

We also offer two other variations of this course: BSc Business and Management (Entrepreneurship), a three-year course without a Placement Year; and BSc Business and Management (Entrepreneurship) with Study Year Abroad, a four-year course with a year studying overseas instead of on placement.

Placement Year in industry

In your third year, you’ll have the opportunity to gain valuable experience in a real-world setting with our Work Placement module.

We will support you to find and secure a placement that’s right for you.

As well as enriching your studies, an industry placement can be an excellent way to:

•    deepen your knowledge and develop new skills
•    build a network of industry contacts

Entry requirements A Level ABB

This degree is not included in our firm choice scheme.

Typical offer

ABB

International Baccalaureate

32 points overall, including 4 in Maths and English at standard level

GCSE

Maths and English at grade B (5). Physics or IT is acceptable in lieu of Maths

BTEC Extended Diploma

DDD

English language requirements

IELTS 6.5, with no component below 5.5

For information on other English language qualifications, please visit our international student pages.

Alternative entry requirements for international and EU students

For country specific entry requirements look at entry requirements by country.

International Foundation Programme

If you are an international or EU student and do not meet the requirements for direct entry to your chosen degree you can join the University of Reading’s International Foundation Programme. Successful completion of this 1 year programme guarantees you a place on your chosen undergraduate degree. English language requirements start as low as IELTS 4.5 depending on progression degree and start date.

  • Learn more about our International Foundation programme

Pre-sessional English language programme

If you need to improve your English language score you can take a pre-sessional English course prior to entry onto your degree.

  • Find out the English language requirements for our courses and our pre-sessional English programme

Structure

  • Year 1
  • Year 2
  • Year 3
  • Year 4

Compulsory modules include:

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Module details


Title:

Management Debates: Ways of thinking about business

Code:

MM1F19

Convenor:

PROF Peter Miskell

Summary:

This module introduces students to key ideas and debates that pertain to the study of business and management. It exposes students to the intellectual foundations on which many well-known management frameworks are built. In doing so it requires students to consider business decisions from different disciplinary perspectives, and to recognise the value of these competing viewpoints.

 

The module is team taught, with different streams of lectures delivered by academics from different disciplinary backgrounds. Pedagogically, the module adopts a ‘syndicate’ approach, with students assigned to learning groups for the duration of their study.

This module is delivered at the University of Reading and the University of Reading Malaysia.

Assessment Method:

Assignment 20%, Report 20%, Class test 60%

Disclaimer:

The modules described on this page are what we currently offer. Modules may change for your year of study as we regularly review our offerings to ensure they’re informed by the latest research and teaching methods.

X

Module details


Title:

Business in Practice: Markets, Marketing and Management

Code:

MM1F20

Convenor:

DR Andrew Hull

Summary:

This module is delivered at the University of Reading and the University of Reading Malaysia 

Assessment Method:

Report 70%, Class test 30%

Disclaimer:

The modules described on this page are what we currently offer. Modules may change for your year of study as we regularly review our offerings to ensure they’re informed by the latest research and teaching methods.

X

Module details


Title:

Business in Practice: Accounting for managers

Code:

MM1F27

Convenor:

MS Sue Blackett

Summary:

This module is co-taught with Ms Sian Weatherburn.

This module is delivered at the University of Reading and the University of Reading Malaysia

Assessment Method:

Exam 55%, Portfolio 10%, Project 35%

Disclaimer:

The modules described on this page are what we currently offer. Modules may change for your year of study as we regularly review our offerings to ensure they’re informed by the latest research and teaching methods.

X

Module details


Title:

Business in Practice: Data analytics

Code:

MM1F28

Convenor:

DR Markos Kyritsis

Summary:

Acquiring, managing, and analysing data is an important business activity that allows organisations to make strategic use of their data assets. Analysing historical data can give companies insight on how to optimise a wide range of functions related to accounting and management. Furthermore, constructing predictive models can facilitate the process of classifying future events and making informed data-driven decisions. This introductory module aims to expose students to key concepts in data analytics by introducing two stages of data analytics (a) descriptive analytics and (b) predictive analytics, as well as visualisation techniques for qualitatively summarising data.

The focus of this module will be less on the underlying mathematical and statistical concepts and more on forming a working knowledge of the methods and assumptions for using statistical methods given certain parameters. Key concepts that will be covered include: types of data; types of distributions (with an emphasis on the normal distribution); analysing the differences between means using parametric and non-parametric tests; regression models; and data visualisation. The workshops will give students experience in using an industry standard programming language, as well as GUI-based tools, thus providing them with the opportunity to choose the most appropriate method for their own future employability needs.

 

This module is delivered at the University of Reading and the University of Reading Malaysia

Assessment Method:

Report 50%, Class test 50%

Disclaimer:

The modules described on this page are what we currently offer. Modules may change for your year of study as we regularly review our offerings to ensure they’re informed by the latest research and teaching methods.

X

Module details


Title:

Developing Professional Excellence

Code:

MM1F29

Convenor:

DR Tatiana Rowson

Summary:

The module focuses on developing students’ understanding of the graduate and placement recruitment process from the perspective of the candidate as well as the recruiter and the organisations. For that purpose, the module draws on the skills and learning from the first two terms to provide students with an experience of the recruitment process, beginning to end. The module will enable the students to use their learning so far to appreciate the role of recruitment, the context of different organisations (businesses and sectors) and implications for different talent management strategies and needs, the rationale for employing certain process and procedures to secure a high-performing and engaged workforce. 
The students will also be encouraged to reflect on their own careers.  The module offers a combination of practical and applied elements as well as more conceptual and academic aspects. As a result, it enables the students to obtain a broad range of knowledge while allowing them to actively reflect on their career, employability and apply to their immediate experience. 

The Module is designed to be delivered in the summer of part 1, ahead of placement applications. Therefore, it equips the students to make better choices and improved applications, to strengthen the students’ success rate of obtaining successful placements and future jobs upon graduation. 

This module is delivered at University of Reading and University of Reading Malaysia.

Assessment Method:

Assignment 100%

Disclaimer:

The modules described on this page are what we currently offer. Modules may change for your year of study as we regularly review our offerings to ensure they’re informed by the latest research and teaching methods.

Code Module Convenor
MM1F19 Management Debates: Ways of thinking about business PROF Peter Miskell
MM1F20 Business in Practice: Markets, Marketing and Management DR Andrew Hull
MM1F27 Business in Practice: Accounting for managers MS Sue Blackett
MM1F28 Business in Practice: Data analytics DR Markos Kyritsis
MM1F29 Developing Professional Excellence DR Tatiana Rowson

These are the modules that we currently offer. They may change for your year of study as we regularly review our module offerings to ensure they’re informed by the latest research and teaching methods.

Compulsory modules include:

X

Module details


Title:

Sales and Business Development

Code:

MM2100

Convenor:

MR Fabio Goncalves De Oliveira

Summary:

This module introduces students to sales and in particular the sales process and selling. It adopts a highly practitioner-oriented introduction to sales. It explains to students, different approaches and models to selling, with a specific focus on direct and online sales.

Assessment Method:

Disclaimer:

The modules described on this page are what we currently offer. Modules may change for your year of study as we regularly review our offerings to ensure they’re informed by the latest research and teaching methods.

X

Module details


Title:

Founder Dilemmas

Code:

MM2101

Convenor:

DR Norbert Morawetz

Summary:

This is a dynamic and experiential module aiming to give students a strong understanding of key dilemmas likely to be faced by first time entrepreneurs. The module develops student's entrepreneurial skill and confidence to put plans into action. Students gain understanding of the practice of entrepreneurship as informed by theory, role play and guest lectures. This will include exposure to the experience of successful entrepreneurs. Students are given a solid understanding of the realities of business start-up.

 

Assessment Method:

Disclaimer:

The modules described on this page are what we currently offer. Modules may change for your year of study as we regularly review our offerings to ensure they’re informed by the latest research and teaching methods.

X

Module details


Title:

Practice of Entrepreneurship

Code:

MM270

Convenor:

DR Lebene Soga

Summary:

This is a dynamic module introducing students to key concepts of business start-up. Students work in a team to identify and develop a new business opportunity, and then seek to test their idea through ‘lean start-up’ experiments. Students will be introduced to key concepts of entrepreneurial management including design thinking, business model creation, entrepreneurial finance and marketing. This is a highly interactive and practical module, with a focus on experiential learning.

Assessment Method:

Assignment 40%, Oral 30%, Class test 30%

Disclaimer:

The modules described on this page are what we currently offer. Modules may change for your year of study as we regularly review our offerings to ensure they’re informed by the latest research and teaching methods.

X

Module details


Title:

Building competitive advantage: Business Strategy and Operations

Code:

MM296

Convenor:

DR Joseph Lane

Summary:

Assessment Method:

Disclaimer:

The modules described on this page are what we currently offer. Modules may change for your year of study as we regularly review our offerings to ensure they’re informed by the latest research and teaching methods.

X

Module details


Title:

Managing Work and People: Organisational Behaviour and Human Resources Management

Code:

MM297

Convenor:

DR Rita Fontinha

Summary:

This module examines the main concepts, principles and practices concerning the management of work and people in organisations.  The module is intended to be both intellectually stimulating and practically relevant. 

 

Assessment Method:

Disclaimer:

The modules described on this page are what we currently offer. Modules may change for your year of study as we regularly review our offerings to ensure they’re informed by the latest research and teaching methods.

X

Module details


Title:

Social Responsibility in Action

Code:

MM298

Convenor:

DR Irina Heim

Summary:

Students are expected to draw on knowledge and experience gained during the course, and to apply it to a contemporary management problem or issue related to social purpose of the business and 17 UN Sustainable Development Goals. The practical actions are developed in conjunction with specific organisations, and they address a topic that is relevant to Principles for Responsible Management Education’ (PRME). PRME is a United Nations-supported initiative founded in 2007 in support of the Sustainable Development Goals and is governed by the UN and the main business school accreditation bodies. Henley Business School is an advanced signatory to PRME.

Assessment Method:

Disclaimer:

The modules described on this page are what we currently offer. Modules may change for your year of study as we regularly review our offerings to ensure they’re informed by the latest research and teaching methods.

Code Module Convenor
MM2100 Sales and Business Development MR Fabio Goncalves De Oliveira
MM2101 Founder Dilemmas DR Norbert Morawetz
MM270 Practice of Entrepreneurship DR Lebene Soga
MM296 Building competitive advantage: Business Strategy and Operations DR Joseph Lane
MM297 Managing Work and People: Organisational Behaviour and Human Resources Management DR Rita Fontinha
MM298 Social Responsibility in Action DR Irina Heim

These are the modules that we currently offer. They may change for your year of study as we regularly review our module offerings to ensure they’re informed by the latest research and teaching methods.

  • Placement Year

Compulsory modules may include:

  • Financing for Entrepreneurship
  • Entrepreneurship Project OR Applied Entrepreneurship

Optional modules may include:

  • Evolution of Entrepreneurship
  • Project Management
  • Digital Marketing
  • Optimising Marketing Performance
  • Business Ethics for International Management
  • International Corporate Strategy
  • Our Relationship with Technology
  • Business History
Please note all modules are subject to change.

Fees

New UK/Republic of Ireland students: £9,250

New international students: £20,300

*UK/Republic of Ireland fee changes

UK/Republic of Ireland undergraduate tuition fees are regulated by the UK government. These fees are subject to parliamentary approval and any decision on raising the tuition fees cap for new UK students would require the formal approval of both Houses of Parliament before it becomes law.

EU student fees

With effect from 1 August 2021, new EU students will pay international tuition fees. For exceptions, please read the UK government’s guidance for EU students.

Placement year fees

If you spend a full year on placement, you will only pay 15% of your usual tuition fee for that year. For more information, please see our fees and funding pages or contact placements@reading.ac.uk.

Additional costs

Some courses will require additional payments for field trips and extra resources. You will also need to budget for your accommodation and living costs. See our information on living costs for more details.

Financial support for your studies

You may be eligible for a scholarship or bursary to help pay for your study. Students from the UK may also be eligible for a student loan to help cover these costs. See our fees and funding information for more information on what's available.

Careers

Careers for BSc Business and Management (Entrepreneurship) with Placement Year graduates

Your degree in business and management will prepare you for a career in both the public and private sectors. The skills and knowledge you acquire will be applicable to, and provide a route into, many areas:

  • Accounting and professional services
  • Banking and investment banking
  • Consultancy
  • Finance
  • Human resources
  • IT
  • Marketing
  • Operations
  • General management.


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