2013 Hastings Campus Open Day presentation - Business courses

1. Open Day
BSc(Hons) Business with Enterprise
BA(Hons) Business Management (one year TopUp)
BSc(Hons) Computing and Business (Joint Honours)
BSc(Hons) Mathematics and Business (Joint Honours)
Sue Greener, Andrea Benn
Brighton Business School course leaders
University of Brighton in Hastings

2. Brighton
Business
School
professional &
dedicated teaching
& admin teams
wide mix of
nationalities &
backgrounds
 in top 3 of new
universities for
research
 strong links with
local & national
industry

3. What do we
offer?
 a
friendly, caring, lea
rning environment
 good student
facilities
(halls, teaching
rooms, learning
resources)
wide range of
sport & leisure
activities
 excellent
graduate
employment
record

4. Settling into
university
life
 personal tutors
professional
academic skills
small teaching
groups
local
accommodation
in the heart of
Hastings town

5. Student
Central
a virtual
learning
environment
always at your
side through
mobile phone
or laptop
Admin
Learning
materials
Library access

6. Our students at Let’s Do Business
Exhibition, Hastings this month

7. Graduates can
expect to apply
for employment or
BA(Hons) Business with Enterprise start their own
businesses with a
strong
This is a four year sandwich honours degree designed
background in
for Hastings campus
developing, prom
Students will be interviewed on application (via UCAS) but oting and
we are looking at BTEC National Dip/Cert Level 3 D D M or implementing new
ABB at A level or IB 32 points with 16 at Higher level.
business ideas
Mature applicants are welcome and each application will be
assessed individually on their own experience & motivation The course has
The course focusses on how you learn and how business strong links with
problems are tackled – this is not taught through a series of local business
lectures and seminars but through workshops, problem-
solving task groups, digital resources and personal tutorials.
The main route to this degree involves three years of study
and one year on business placement (third year).

8. Typical placements from Brighton 09/10
 Locations: Greater London (31%), Sussex
(28%), Berks/Middlesex (15%), north of London
(6%), Hampshire (5%), Surrey (4%), Kent/Essex
(5%), overseas (5%)
 Key sectors: manufacturing
(26%), engineering/construction (18%), financial
services (12%), media (11%), information technology
(9%), public sector/charity
(8%), travel/leisure(7%), pharmaceuticals & cosmetics
(5%), retail (4%), PR/events (4%)
 Functional areas: marketing/sales
(33%), finance/accounting (17%), recruitment
(11%), project management (7%), research
(6%), business admin (5%), event management
(4%), customer Services (3%), management trainee
(3%), IT (3%), HRM (2%)

9. Industrial
placement
salaries
2009/2010
Minimum:
approx £12,000
Maximum:
approx: £20,000
 Average:
approx £15,000

10. Examples of placement employers
American Express Lloyds TSB
Channel 4 Television Marks & Spencer
Home Office Pfizer
House of Lords Roche
Gillette Morgan Stanley
GMTV Vauxhall Cars
Grant Thornton Wella
Hewlett Packard Xerox
IBM Unilever
Reuters Microsoft

11. BSc Business with Enterprise
Year One (L4)
Solving Business Problems 1
These four
subjects are
Year through 20 CAT
also assessed
in Solving
Business
Global People
Problems
(PBL – four Business Marketing Accounting Organisation
problems 5 CAT Context Sem 1 10 Sem 2 10 s and Work
each) and Sem 1 10 CAT CAT Sem 2 10
Business CAT CAT
Analysis (5 CAT
each) through a I
year through
integrated case N Business Analysis 1
study.
D From Week 7: Year through 20 CAT
U
C
T Business Enterprise 1
U Sem 1 20 CAT
I
O
N Continuing Professional Development 1
Year through 20 CAT
Teaching 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31
weeks

12. BSc Business with Enterprise
Year Two (L5)
Solving Business Problems 2
These four
subjects are Year through 20 CAT
also assessed
in Solving
Business
Problems Business Consumer
Operations & Product
(PBL – four
Systems Law design Behaviour
problems 5 CAT
each) and Sem 1 10 Sem 1 10 Sem 2 10 Sem 2 10
Business CAT CAT CAT CAT
Analysis (5 CAT
each) through a
year through
integrated case A Business Analysis 2
study.
p
p
From Week 7: Year through 20 CAT
r
a
i Business Enterprise 2
s Sem 1 20 CAT
a
l
Continuing Professional Development 2
Year through 20 CAT
Teaching 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31
weeks

13. BSc Business with Enterprise
Final Year (L6)
Project Proposal
hand in Week Project
8, feedback by
Week 12 to
Proposal Business Report
begin Business
Report
Sem 1 10 From Week 12 Year through 30 CAT
CAT
Continuing Professional
A Placement Report
p Development 3
Sem 1 20 CAT
p Sem 2 20 CAT
r
a
i Business Enterprise 3 Strategic Practice
s Sem 1 20 CAT Sem 2 20 CAT
a
l
Teaching 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31
weeks

14. The JHP
programme is
BSc(Hons) Computing and Business an opportunity
BSc(Hons) Mathematics and Business to combine
two
These degrees are part of our Hastings Joint Honours disciplines
Programme you are
Students study two strands: Either Computing & Business interested in.
OR Mathematics & Business PLUS a common core
programme. Many more
subjects are
The Business Strand (one third of your course) is taught
alongside the BSc Business with Enterprise students and the
offered on
following subjects are studied: JHP – these
are the two
Year One: Global Business Context, Principles of which include
Marketing, Basic Accounting and People, Organisations and
Work
Business
Year Two: Consumer Behaviour, Business Law, Business
Operations and Processes and Product Design
Year Three: Business Enterprise and Strategic Practice

15. BA(Hons) Business Management
TopUp
This is a final year degree course for those who have
already completed a Foundation Degree in Business or
HND and meet entry requirements
Students entering directly join students from our own FdA
Business degree for study
Subjects studied: Managing Organisations, Employee
Selection and Development, Operations and Process
Management, Public Relations: Principles and Practice, E-
commerce, Strategic Management, Developing Academic
Knowledge & Skills and Dissertation of a subject of your
choice.

16. Excellent
employability
record
Over 90% of
Business School
students are
employed or
continuing their
studies within six
months of finishing
their course.
(Destination of Leavers
from Higher Education
survey 2008/09)

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