Newcastle University

Business Management BA Honours
UCAS Code: N200 (3 or 4 Years)

• Course Overview
• Modules
• Entry Requirements
• Careers
• Finance

Our degrees are divided into Stages. Each Stage lasts for an academic year and you need to complete modules totalling 120 credits by the end of each Stage.

Please be aware that programme modules do change and therefore may differ for your year of entry.

Stage 1

Compulsory modules

• ACC1003 Introduction to Accounting and Finance (for Business School Students)
• BUS1001 Introduction to Management and Organisation
• BUS1005 Developing Academic and Employability Skills
• MAS1403 Quantitative Methods for Business Management
• BUS1002 Global Business Environment
• BUS1004 Business Emergence and Growth

Stage 2

Compulsory modules

• BUS2029 Operations Strategy and Management
• BUS2010 Managing People in Organisations
• BUS2018 Research Skills for Business Research and Consultancy
• BUS2019 Understanding Work and Organisations

Optional modules

You choose 40 credits from the following list:

• BUS2011 Business Enterprise
• BUS2017 Introduction to Innovation and Technology Management
• BUS2030 Current Affairs, News and Organisations
• BUS2031 Managing Change

With the approval of the DPD, you may select ONE of the modules below INSTEAD of one of the modules above:

• NCL2007 Career Development for Second Year Students
• SPA1001 Business Spanish

Work placement/study abroad (optional):

You can spend the year between Stages 2 and 3 studying at one of our partner universities in Europe or on a 12-month work placement in a UK or European business.

The Business School has a dedicated Placement Officer who can help you find a suitable work placement; you can also choose to receive e-mail alerts from the University’s Careers Service Vacancies Online service.

We have recently placed students in companies including Heinz, IBM, Nestlé, Nissan, L’Oréal, Reuters and Xerox.

Stage 3

Compulsory modules

You will take 80 credits from the following compulsory modules:

• BUS3053 Management Consultancy Project OR
• BUS3051 Management Studies Dissertation 

AND

• BUS3054 Strategy, Organisations and Society
• BUS3035 Contemporary Issues in International Business Management

Optional modules

You will take 40 credits of optional modules from the following list:

• BUS3004 Electronic Business
• BUS3016 Public Services Management
• BUS3033 Critical Organisation Studies AND
• BUS3019 The Representation of Management and Organisation in Popular Culture
• BUS3024 Critical Perspectives on Human Resource Management in Britain AND
• BUS3021 International Human Resource Management
• BUS3027 Innovation and Creativity
• BUS3047 Management in Practice (with Business Game)
• BUS3049 Understanding Enterprise

You also have the flexibility (with approval of the DPD) to replace one of the above optional modules with a module from the following list:

• NCL3007 Career Development for Final Year Students
• BUS3056 ERASMUS Study/Work Placement Report
• SPA2001 Business Spanish 2