MBus in Business and Management

In the first year, you study compulsory modules designed to give you a good grounding in the disciplines required by a modern manager.

Our undergraduate courses in Business and Management Studies, Marketing, Accounting and Finance, International Business and Management and Human Resource Management share a common first year, so you can switch between them at the end of the first year, subject to satisfactory performance.

In the second and final year, you go on to choose from a list of optional specialist modules which allows you to design a programme of study to suit your needs and interests.

Assessment largely involves a combination of coursework assessments and formal examinations held at the end of each semester. Your first-year assessments aim to measure your progress; the assessments that count towards the classification of you degree are held in the second and final years.

Compulsory modules – year 1

• Business Economics
• Introduction to Accounting and Finance
• Foundations of Marketing 
• Foundation of Production/Operations Management
• Organisational Behaviour and the Sociology of Work
• Quantitative Methods in Information Management
• Student Self Development
• The Macroeconomic Environment of Business

Compulsory modules – year 2

• Business Law
• Employability and Enterprise Skills
• Entrepreneurship

Compulsory modules – year 3

• Advanced Professional development
• Creativity and Innovation
• Enterprise and Innovation in Practice
• Sustainable Operations

Compulsory modules – year 4

• Managing Consultative Research
• Coaching and Mentoring
• Project Management
• Business Simulation
• Business project (60 credits)

Elective modules, choose 6 in the second year, 5 in the third year and 2 M-level modules in final year, from a list of 50 covering the specialist areas of

• Accounting
• Financial Management
• Marketing
• Psychology
• Production and Operations Management
• Human Resource Management
• Information Management and Business Information Systems

There are also multidisciplinary modules on subjects such as International Business and Strategic Management.

A number of professional accountancy bodies give exemptions for examinations taken at different stages of their professional qualification, including the Institute of Chartered Accountants England and Wales (ICAEW), the Association of Certified Accountants (ACCA), and the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants (CIMA). This programme entitles students to be eligible for exemptions, but the exact detail of which examinations may be exempted vary depending on the modules taken in their studies at Bradford. For further information, please visit the appropriate websites:

Association of Certified Accountants (ACCA)

The Institute of Chartered Accountants England and Wales (ICAEW)

The Chartered Institute of Management Accountants (CIMA)

This programme offers you the opportunity to take two 20 credit summer work placements in industry at the end of the first and second years. Placements are real, paid jobs in a wide variety of organisations in the private, public and not-for-profit sectors and offer you a valuable opportunity to experience firsthand how business and management concepts are applied in practice and to give you direct exposure to real issues in the workplace.

The placements are a vital part of your learning and will add significantly to your personal development, self confidence, planning, communication and business acumen skills. Statistics show that students who have undertaken a placement benefit from a better graduate job, higher graduate starting salary and a better degree outcome.

In a competitive graduate market, valuable experience and employability skills gained from work placements will differentiate you from the thousands of other graduates seeking work. We find that students return from their placement with their confidence and personal skills enhanced and ready to implement their focused plan for the future.

The School has an excellent network of organisations that offer placements including IBM, Vauxhall, NHS, GE Money, Pace, Enterprise Rent A Car, Cummins and Peugeot. Together we ensure your placement is appropriately challenging and that you can make a real and positive impact on the business.

Placements are not guaranteed, and students will have to invest considerable time and effort in their 2^nd year in securing one, with the support of the dedicated Careers team.

There are opportunities for School of Management undergraduate students to study abroad. This is usually in their 2nd year of studies, see the Study Abroad section for further information.