BSc Management

Our BSc Management is ranked 2nd in the UK by The Times and Sunday Times Good University Guide 2024

This course will equip you with the skills, knowledge and confidence to operate effectively in a range of roles in international brands, multinational companies, global financial markets and new business ventures.

Our BSc Management course is highly flexible as you can choose modules to tailor your experience to meet your interests, development needs and career aspirations. You can follow a generalist route in business and management to keep your career options open or choose one of our course pathways in Finance, Marketing, Digital Business or Entrepreneurship to improve your employability in that area. Your transcript on graduation will reflect this, adding even more value to your degree when applying for work in the sector. 

As well as enhancing your career potential, the course will enable you to develop as a critically reflective thinker, able to analyse and interpret business-related problems and to devise creative and enterprising solutions that straddle multi-disciplinary boundaries. You’ll benefit from studying with students from a range of different countries, in a mutually supportive, collaborative learning environment. 

The course offers opportunities to develop key interpersonal, communication, leadership and team-working skills, and to become more adaptable and resilient to change.

BSc Management with Placement Year

Our BSc Management with Placement Year course enables you to put your studies into practice while learning about a particular industry. Employers often look for workplace experience as part of their recruitment process and many make graduate offers to students as a direct result of placements so this can be a great way to kick start your career!

With established links to employers across all business sectors both in the UK and abroad, our dedicated CareersPlus team are on hand to support you through the process. Find out more about our BSc Management with Placement Year course.

  • Applications Open 5 September 2023
  • Application Deadline 31 January 2024
  • Start Date 23 September 2024
  • Duration 3 years /4 years
  • Industry placement or year abroad
  • Optional
  • UCAS Codes:
  • BSc Management: N200
  • BSc Management with Placement Year: N20Y
  • Institution Code W20
  • Location Warwick Campus
  • Format Full-time
  • UK Fees £9,250 *
  • EU/International Fees £29,830 *

* See fees and funding for fees breakdown.

Nationalities
34 Nationalities represented on the course (2022)
Students
2nd Ranked 2nd in the UK by The Times and Sunday Times Good University Guide 2024
Age
18 Average age on the course (2022)

Course pathways

Developed by our world-class academics, our course pathways enable you to focus your studies around a particular subject. Each pathway has been developed to build your knowledge within that subject area and upon graduation, the pathway you have achieved will be added to your transcript adding real value to your CV when starting your career.

We offer pathways covering the following subjects:

  • Accounting
  • Digital Business
  • Entrepreneurship
  • Finance
  • Marketing (CIM Accredited) *
  • Strategy and Organisation

Find out more about our course pathways.

*See exemptions below for more details

Exemptions

Accountancy and Finance modules

If you study specific accountancy or finance modules as part of your degree, you may be eligible for exemptions from a number of professional accounting exams. The regulations change, but many accountancy bodies have previously recognised our course.

Please review individual websites for their exemptions:

  • ICAEW The Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales 
  • CIMA Chartered Institute of Management Accountants 
  • ACCA The Association of Chartered Certified Accountants 
  • CIPFA The Chartered Institute of Public Finance and Accountancy

BSc Management and Marketing pathway

If you choose to study the BSc Management and Marketing pathways, you may be eligible for exemptions on The Chartered Institute of Marketing (CIM) qualifications. 

Warwick Business School has developed strong links with CIM and our teaching content has been developed alongside CIM’s learning outcomes to ensure that course content is aligned to industry requirements.

Find out more about CIM's Accredited Degree programme.

What our graduates do
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Studying BSc Management helped me to prepare for the real world and I feel my degree will help me to make a success of whatever I choose to do."
Alex Austin Senior Strategic Partnerships Manager, Funding Circle,
BSc Management (2012 - 2015)
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Studying BSc Management taught me key business skills and enabled me to create my own drinks brand."
Hugh Thomas CEO & Co-Founder, Ugly Drinks,
BSc Management (2007 - 2010)
Student experiences
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I developed a genuine interest in financial markets which encouraged me to study the finance pathway as part of my degree."
Nikolett Marianu Summer Intern, J.P. Morgan,
BSc Management with Finance (2019-2022)

Benefits

  • Our most flexible degree, with the opportunity to tailor your studies through elective modules. 
  • Focus your studies around a particular subject by following one of our recognised pathways adding real value to your CV when starting your career.
  • You have the option to gain valuable industry experience by completing a placement year.  
  • You have the option to expand your business knowledge from an international perspective by spending a year abroad at one of our partner universities.
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