BSc (Hons) Business and Economics
- International students can apply
- Work placement opportunity
The Business and Management Studies suite of undergraduate degrees is carefully designed to meet the needs of anyone seeking a high level career in business and employers seeking a high calibre of business graduate. It provides a comprehensive foundation that prepares you for a wide variety of management careers by direct employment, graduate entry into management training programmes or further study. The degrees prepare you for employment in the major functional areas of business as well as general management.
Graduates have gone on to work with companies like Ernst & Young; Dixons Group plc; British Airways; Cooperative Insurance Services; BMW; American Express; BBC; Citibank; Ladbrokes; Numberica; Office of the Legal Services Ombudsman; KPMG and PricewaterhouseCoopers; Premier Travel Inn; BUPA; Thomson Holidays; BT; DTS Logistics; Greater Manchester Police; and the NHS.
Career Prospects
Recent graduate careers have included personnel management, accountancy, marketing management, publicity, market research, corporate planning, operational research, systems analysis, computer programming, purchasing, banking and the City.
Placements
Taking a placement between your second and final year helps to further develop your real management skills and enhances your CV and employment prospects. A placement also provides a real context for the subjects studied on the course and helps in the preparation for your final year.
Students at Salford have been placed in a large number and wide variety of organisations, from global corporations to small enterprises, from financial services to manufacturing. You will receive considerable assistance from the industrial placements tutor and team in obtaining a placement.
Current and recent students have enjoyed placements with: NatWest, Barclays and The Cooperative Bank; BP, Esso and Shell; IBM, Hewlett Packard and Compaq; Ford, Vauxhall, Jaguar and Nissan; Marks and Spencer, Selfridges and Sainsbury's; Eli Lilly, Glaxo and ICI.
Other placements have included the NHS, the education sector, environmental, arts and cultural organisations.