Business (Professional Practice) - BA (Hons) at Birmingham City University

Our course will equip you with the practical skills and enterprising attributes, enabling you to make an immediate impact on business organisations. You will be able to develop a wide range of cognitive and intellectual skills, together with competencies specific to business and enterprise.

The course will provide you with the opportunity to develop specialist business skills, whilst helping you develop key transferrable skills, all of which will help you stand out when it comes to securing employment.

What sets the BA Business (Professional Practice) pathway apart is that it allows you to study alongside working within an organisation, thereby fast tracking your professional development.

This route, which utilises work-based learning in your final year, allows you to apply your studies directly in your work experience. There will also be opportunities to try out different graduate roles with a wide variety of placements and internships on offer to compliment your studies.

Your learning will embrace the development and operation of business markets, the management of key resources including human capital, financial management, strategic management and cultural awareness. In addition, you will gain an insight into digital business exploring how technology has remodelled the business world and reflect on the accompanying issues around social responsibility and ethical behaviour.