UNIVERSITY BUSINESS COURSES

BA (Hons) Global Business and Entrepreneurship with Foundation Year


If you're seeking a platform to deepen your technical understanding of business within a hands-on, vocational framework that continually develops your entrepreneurial skills, this course is tailored for you.

Our BA in Global Business and Entrepreneurship with Foundation Year offers an alternative pathway to achieving your academic and career goals, especially if you need flexibility around work or family commitments.

The Foundation Year builds essential skills and foundational knowledge to support your success in the following three years. As you progress, the course gradually intensifies, focusing on entrepreneurship, new venture management, and providing unique learning pathways in your final year to explore your specific interests.

This degree empowers you to unlock the potential of your business ideas—equipping you to spot valuable opportunities and develop the skills needed to bring them to life. Through an engaging structure, you’ll study dynamic organisations, learning how they drive job creation, economic growth, and social change.

Throughout the course, you’ll test your ideas in real-world scenarios, honing your business planning skills—an essential aspect of entrepreneurial success. You'll explore the theory and practice of entrepreneurship across various contexts, gaining insights into the value of strategy, tactics, and innovation within different business models.

Guided by industry experts, you'll gain a practical understanding of launching and growing businesses, including how to anticipate challenges along the way. Additionally, you’ll benefit from personalised academic, career, financial, and well-being support from our dedicated welfare team.

COURSE OVERVIEW

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Intakes

September , January , July

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Duration

Four years

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Awarded Qualification

BA (Hons) Global Business and Entrepreneurship with Foundation Year by Oxford Brookes Unv

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Delivery

Weekdays, evenings and/or weekends

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Locations

London, Birmingham, Manchester, Leeds

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Assistance Work Placement

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Fees

£9250 , Funding Available

Curriculum

This course includes core modules throughout the first three years of study. In the final year, you’ll choose from six unique pathways, each delving into contemporary issues in today’s business and entrepreneurship landscape. You’ll complete a specialist module aligned with your chosen pathway.


Foundation Year

- IT Essentials

- Academic Writing and Research Skills

- Introduction to Business and Entrepreneurship

- Entrepreneurial People and Processes

- Business Environment

- Fundamentals of Finance


Year 1

- Entrepreneurial Recognition, Ideas and Opportunities

- Managerial Finance

- Introduction to Marketing

- Introduction to Strategic Management

- Entrepreneurial Organisations

- Project Management


Year 2

- Business Ideas and Opportunities Generation

- Digital Marketing and Social Media in Business

- Financing a Business Venture and Legal Aspects

- Social Entrepreneurship

- Business Planning and Pitching

- Intrapreneurial Development


Year 3

- Market Research

- Global Strategies

- Project

- Contemporary Issues in Entrepreneurship

- Contemporary Issues in Events and Hospitality

- Contemporary Issues in IT and Communications

- Contemporary Issues in Professional Business Services

- Contemporary Issues in Supply Chain

- Contemporary Issues in Retail

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This course employs an authentic assessment strategy, immersing you in real-life scenarios within each module. This approach provides a structured pathway to achieve the learning objectives of individual modules and the program as a whole. Most assessments encourage you to apply your own business ideas, allowing for detailed feedback and opportunities to refine and develop your proposals.


The assessment design offers a range of ways for you to demonstrate essential knowledge, skills, and competencies crucial in the business world. Methods include essays, reports, real-life simulations, presentations, projects, and group discussions.


Independent work, such as research, assignments, and group projects, is essential for your success, and self-study will be strongly supported by lecturer guidance throughout the course.


Assessment methods are reviewed annually to ensure they remain relevant and effective, with updates based on student feedback or recommendations from an External Examiner—an independent academic expert who helps maintain high academic assessment standards.

Entry Requirement

**Standard Entry Requirements**  

- 80 UCAS tariff points (or higher) or a 60-credit Ofqual Level 3 qualification.


**Applicants Aged 21+**  

If you’re 21 or older and don’t meet the standard entry requirements, we may still consider your application if you have relevant life or work experience that aligns with the skills needed for undergraduate study through our Foundation program.


**All Applicants**  

Each applicant is evaluated by the Admissions Team through an interview that assesses listening and speaking skills, as well as a written Personal Reflection Statement. You must also demonstrate a minimum of B1 English proficiency, either through an on-campus exam or an accepted English language qualification.


**Required Documents:**  

- Completed application form  

- Supervised Personal Reflection Statement  

- Personal interview

Fees&Funding

All students can access student finance. 


 Tuition Fee Loans


A Tuition Fee Loan covers the cost of your tuition fees. This is paid directly to your awarding institution (in this case Oxford Brookes University). Loan repayments only start once you have finished your course and are earning £26,575 a year or more. Both full- and part-time learners can apply.



Maintenance Loans


If you are eligible, you can also apply for a Maintenance Loan to cover living expenses. This loan is paid directly into your bank account at the start of term. Maintenance Loans has are repaid after you finish your course and your earnings are above £26,575 per year. For more information, please visit gov.uk/studentfinance.


 


Maintenance Grants


You can also apply for a Maintenance Grant to help with living costs. Maintenance Grants are paid directly into your bank account at the start of term. You don’t have to pay them back, but any funds you get will reduce the size of the Maintenance Loan you could receive, should you also wish to apply for one.


New students must prove they have been living in the UK for five years before their course start date in order to get living cost support from Student Finance England.nt items write about what makes a specific dish particularly worthwhile or delicious.


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