Kate Gregory
Graduate
Graduated: 2000
- 3 years
- 4 years with foundation year
- 4 years with year in industry
- 5 years with foundation and industry years
2022
UCAS Code:
BMM1
Institution code: S30UCAS Points:
104-120
Campus:
Southampton City Centre
View on Google MapsDevelop the insight, confidence, management skills and marketing perspective to succeed in modern business or set up your own business on this professionally-focused degree.
Ranked in the UK top 30% for business, management and marketing (Guardian UK University Guide 2022), Solent Business School offers the skills and confidence you need to progress a successful career in marketing, business or international management.
Incorporating dedicated marketing units focused on creativity and promotion, this challenging course provides everything you need for the ever-changing business environment – teaching you to analyse future trends, identify the local and broader impacts, and recommend sustainable, ethical solutions to contemporary business challenges.
And the course is also accredited by the Chartered Management Institute (CMI), meaning you can graduate with an additional professional leadership and management award (level 5).
You will hone your skills through interactive learning sessions and a variety of practically-focused assessments, building a strong foundation of knowledge in business and marketing – along with the analytical skills and practical understanding to apply that knowledge in real-world contexts.
Our talented teaching team offer a wealth of experience in varied national business and marketing environments and cultures, giving you an exceptional range of expertise to call upon. 85% of our students say our courses are intellectually stimulating and 95% highlight our staff are good at explaining things (National Student Survey, DiscoverUni 2020)
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Why choose this course?
Our fifth year running in the UK top ten (HE-BCI survey 2019/20)
With strong connections to a range of successful small and medium sized businesses.
2022 Guardian UK University Guide
Who is this course is for?
BSc (Hons) Business Management with Marketing is ideally suited to students who want to lead, manage and use creativity to make a difference in the world.
Whatever your aspiration – whether it’s social enterprise, charity, government, big local/global business or a smaller entrepreneurial firm or start-up – the business management with marketing degree will provide the tools and the knowledge to shape a future that’s bright with opportunities.
If you're looking to gain a year's worth of industry experience as part of your studies, this course is for you. Our course and placements teams will help you find the perfect industry placement in your chosen field.
What does this course lead to?
When you graduate from this innovative and engaging course you will have a broad range of transferable skills, allowing you to pursue careers in a number of places.
Meet the team
The University cannot guarantee any particular members of staff will teach specific aspects of the course in the future, but will endeavour to ensure the teaching team maintains their balance of experience and qualifications.
Facilities
Our vibrant campus brings state-of-the-art facilities to enhance your learning and elevate your student experience. Our award-winning teaching building, The Spark is centred around students and offers a stimulating study environment with flexible learning spaces.
Away from studying, why not try out the gyms, fitness studios and sports halls in our £28 million Sports Complex, or watch a blockbuster film at our student-run cinema with Dolby Atmos audio.
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Core modules
Positive Psychology for Success
Lay strong foundations for study and employment success. Build your academic, employability and independent learning skills, and put together a personal professional development (PPD) plan to stay agile, adaptable and future ready.
Contemporary Management Theory
Expand your understanding of key managerial concepts, including organisational purpose and structure, leadership, corporate culture, ethics, strategic decision-making, diversity and employment law - through case studies from today’s business environment.
Data Analysis, Tools and Application
Explore how digital technology has fundamentally reshaped traditional business, and how businesses try to keep up. Learn to collect, analyse, and interpret data, and to present your findings effectively.
Marketing, Sales and Negotiation Skills
Discover the critical role of marketing in business, from understanding customers’ motivations to engagement to measuring effectiveness. Learn key marketing concepts and terminology, explore digital and content marketing, and more.
Business Finance for Managers
Get to grips with finance and accounting, an essential part of any management role – exploring financial controls, budgeting, profit and loss, financial statements and more – through practical problem-based interactive sessions.
Creative Enterprise and Innovation
Explore strategies and cultures that promote creativity, enterprise and innovation, and examine leading individuals and organisations – developing your own entrepreneurial capacity, and learning to be creative, enterprising and innovative for others.
Core modules
Project Management in Business
Informed by Association for Project Management (APM) standards, this module will teach you best practice including stakeholder engagement, communications and leadership – as well as exploring contemporary challenges in project management.
Operations Management
This module examines processes, tools and techniques used in operations management to ensure customer satisfaction and analyse delivery issues, and provides opportunities to apply your knowledge in practice.
Values Driven Leadership
To manage others, you need to reflect on self-management too. This module explores your self-management, personal values and journey, interweaving the essential management and leadership skills to successfully manage teams.
Social Enterprise
This module will explore the role, legal status and challenges of social and community enterprise – letting you show employers you are values motivated and socially responsible, and understand ethical business.
Integrated Marketing Communications
Exploring the complexities of integrated marketing communications theory, you will research, plan and develop an integrated campaign from brief to execution, understanding consumers and appropriate media channels, and developing messages to help position a product or service.
Customer Experience
This module introduces models and concepts including the Pillars of Customer Experience and the experience economy, teaches you to evaluate the customer experience and journey using data, and explores modern tactics such as sensory and experiential marketing.
Placement year
Students will have the option to undertake a year-long work placement or study abroad year between level 5 and level 6. In semester two of level 5, there is also the option to either do a short study abroad (at approved institutions) or undertake a relevant short work placement.
Core modules
Sustainable Strategic Management
Learn how senior managers and chief executive officers identify, select and manage strategy. Critically evaluate a wide range of strategic management theories and models, and learn how to apply and implement them.
Developing the Professional Manager
Evaluate your aspirations and create a career development plan to start your own business or secure a graduate position – exploring digital profiles, job hunting, how to stand out, and more.
Research Methods
Develop your research and analytical skills, designing research in a way that is valid, and reliable, and apply it in business – impacting product development, customer service, strategy and more.
Final Major Project
Apply research and analytical skills to your chosen topics of business. Carry out primary research, interpret your findings using relevant tools and techniques, formulate options and draw conclusions and recommendations.
Ecological Economics
Business needs to change – fast. As a future manager and leader, you will consider climate change and the underlying economics, critically evaluating proposed solutions and their ecological and economic impacts.
International Marketing
This module explores how key concepts and theories of marketing can be applied to new markets and countries. You will analyse international markets, learn to understand cultural differences, and examine how businesses adapt marketing strategies for new markets.
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How you will learn and be assessed
You will learn by:
Directed Learning
Collaborative Learning
Guided Learning
You may be assessed by a combination of:
Business simulations- Individual presentations
Peer evaluation
Blogs
Reflective accounts
Coursework
Solent’s curriculum framework builds on our unique, creative and applied approach to teaching. The transformation of students’ lives is at the heart of our mission as a university, and our curriculum – informed by the latest theory – reflects this shared educational vision.
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Study support
The student achievement team are on hand to help you succeed during your studies at Solent. They aim to contact you at key times during your time here with personalised information, advice and guidance, by email or phone.
Access Solent provides information, advice and guidance for disabled students.
All students can access Succeed@Solent, Solent's online guide to getting better grades. It offers extensive, practical information and advice on topics such as academic writing, research and presentations.
Why choose the industry?
Business and marketing is the engine of global prosperity that drives innovation, development and success, especially in a post-Covid, post-Brexit scenario. Business and marketing both offer unique opportunities to make an impact at local, regional, national and global levels – and our BSc (Hons) Business Management with Marketing degree will enable you to be future ready.
Our local and wider global business connections ensure that the course is current, relevant and informed by the latest thinking. Our network of trusted and valued business partners offer you live briefs which address real business challenges, and we use strategic games to simulate the market and economic movements that firms and organisations have to respond to in the real world.
Whenever possible, we also bring in guest speakers from industry to offer their insight and share their current experiences.
Entry requirements
Please select an option below:
Key entry requirements
104-120 UCAS tariff points from A-levels or equivalent
- A minimum of two completed A-levels, a BTEC Extended Diploma at DMM or BTEC Diploma at D*D, a T-level Merit or equivalent qualification, or a combination of qualifications which comply with the minimum entry requirement of 104 UCAS points.
- Direct entry into year two or three may be considered for this course.
- For further information about UKl qualifications, please refer to our course entry requirement statement.
Key entry requirements
As a general guide, we look for qualifications that are equivalent to the British high school A-levels.
If you are applying from outside the UK, find information about entry requirements, visas and agents for your country here.
For further information about EU qualifications, please refer to our course entry requirement statement.
Key entry requirements
As a general guide, we look for qualifications that are equivalent to the British high school A-levels.
If you are applying from outside the UK, find information about entry requirements, visas and agents for your country here.
For further information about international qualifications, please refer to our course entry requirement statement.
Note to all international students requiring a visa:
All international applicants need to be aware that the English language requirements to attend Solent University, and the English language requirements to obtain a visa from the Home Office, may be different. This means that if you meet the Solent University language requirement to gain a place on the course, you may still have to meet additional requirements to be granted with a visa by the Home Office.
We strongly advise all applicants to visit the Home Office website which outlines all the requirements for a successful visa application and to take a look at this PDF document which outlines both Solent University and Home Office requirements for a number of language tests.
104-120UCAS Points
Any questions?
Contact our admissions team!Call: 023 8201 5066Email: admissions@solent.ac.uk
How to apply
Any student applying for the first year of a full-time/sandwich undergraduate course must apply through UCAS (University and Colleges Admissions Service). This includes mature, overseas and EU students.
Nearly all schools and colleges offer their students the facility of applying electronically through the UCAS website using 'Apply'; it may also be used by those applying independently in the UK and overseas. This facility and all course information can be found on the UCAS website: www.ucas.com.
Your application should reach UCAS by 26 January if you hope to enter a course the following autumn. Early application is advised for the most popular subject areas. Late applications may be made until the end of June. The UCAS Code for the University is S30, code name SOLNT.
Language requirements
Applicants who do not have English as their first language will be required to demonstrate an approved level of proficiency in the use of the English language. The agreed minimum requirements for this course are:
- IELTS minimum 6.0 overall with a minimum of 5.5 in each individual component
- TOEFL IBT minimum 80 with a minimum of 20 in each individual component
- Duolingo English Language Test - 100 overall with minimum of 90 in each component
or equivalent.
Qualifications are checked before enrolment, and international students must bring their original certificates or certified copies when coming to study at the University.
Pre-Sessional English programme
The University also offers a pre-sessional English programme for international students who wish to improve their level of English before starting a degree course.
Solent Business School
Solent Business School supports students to pursue specialist knowledge, equipping them for a fast-paced business landscape. The School and its students are an integral part of business innovation in Southampton with an extensive network of partnerships.
Solent Business School brings businesses to life - our students are entrepreneurial, creative, agile, and digital natives.
Studying business at Solent means more than just learning the theory - you'll put your knowledge into practice through real-world live industry briefs.
Our graduates are connected to the world and ready for the future. Studying with us opens up career options in a wide and fascinating range of industries and is a gateway to working across the globe.
We will prepare you for your future
Studying BSc (Hons) Business Management with Marketing at Solent Business School means you will be well prepared for a range of graduate level employment opportunities, such as:
- Marketing manager
- Marketing executive
- Social marketing specialist
- Sales and marketing communications
- Digital marketer
- Business development manager
- Project manager
- Customer services professional
We will help you start your career
The Solent Futures team is committed to getting students into great careers.
While you are studying, the team can help you with finding work experience or placements, link you with a mentor, check your CV, or offer one-to-one guidance.
If you're in your final year, we also have graduate job opportunities just for Solent graduates.
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Support at Solent
All students at Solent University have access to a range of specialist support services. Whether you are having financial difficulty, need additional help with academic skills or want advice on setting up your own business you'll find that help is always on hand.
Most of our specialist support services are based around the Student Hub, a central space where you can access all the information and support you may need during your time at University. The Student Hub is the first point of contact if you have any queries relating to your course, including questions about your timetable, options, and assessments and extenuating circumstances.
We work in partnership with the University to build a sense of pride and confidence in your Union, University and student experience.
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