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BA (Hons) Business and Management
Join academics and industry professionals at the forefront of effective and ethical business management.
Year of entry: 2025/26
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In a dynamic and interconnected global economy, the role of management has never been more important.
We’ll equip you to be a holistic, resourceful, innovative and reflective practitioner of management, able to independently identify and develop your own specialisms. You’ll be numerically and digitally literate, robust and ethically sound, sensitive to diversity and fully adaptable: a decision-maker able to cope with the demands of the 21st century workplace.
This broad-based degree will introduce you to innovative management theory and practice, with a wide range of specialised modules to choose from. With a more flexible structure than the equivalent BSc, you can tailor your course to fit your interests closely.
Course content
Our business and management, accounting and finance degrees share some common elements in Year 1 to introduce you to the core concepts underpinning these key disciplines.
As you progress, you'll develop the knowledge and skills acquired in your first year, giving both depth and breadth to your learning. You'll be able to choose optional modules to widen your knowledge or bring your specialism into focus.
Year 1
In Year 1, you'll study core modules which introduce some of the key concepts and techniques used in business and management. The modules give a broad overview of topics you may want to specialise in, with assessments designed to develop your academic skills.
Core modules
- Intro to Business Ethics and Sustainability
- Business Accounting
- Humanity, Economics and Management
- History of Management
- Research and Information Criticality
- Marketing Principles and Practice
Academic integrity module
In addition to the above you will also need to complete our online Academic Integrity module.
Our modules may change to reflect the latest academic thinking and expertise of our staff, and in line with Department/School academic planning.
Learning by design
Every course at York has been designed to provide clear and ambitious learning outcomes. These learning outcomes give you an understanding of what you will be able to do at the end of the course. We develop each course by designing modules that grow your abilities towards the learning outcomes and help you to explain what you can offer to employers. Find out more about our approach to teaching and learning.
Learning outcomes for this course
- champion sustainable and ethical principles, engage in socially and internationally-aware approaches to complex business and management situations, and reflect upon their consequences;
- identify and diagnose problems in business and management by applying management theories, frameworks and experience to specific cases;
- manage business, management and organisational information by critically evaluating the quality of the evidence base, overcoming ambiguity by identifying gaps and inadequacies, and using suitable methods to collect and collate relevant data;
- make robust, creative and evidence-based managerial decisions by critically analysing textual and numerical information and data using appropriate qualitative and quantitative techniques;
- argue for specific management and business proposals and recommendations by presenting relevant and appropriately detailed information, coherently, articulately and confidently;
- act efficiently and professionally to put managerial decisions into practice taking into account the organisational context together with time and resource constraints;
- liaise and work with others to deliver team projects, across cultures, in a professional and collegial manner;
- engage in continuing professional development by critically evaluating personal strengths and weaknesses, keeping up-to-date with relevant business and management ideas and practices.
Fees and funding
Annual tuition fees
UK (home) | International and EU |
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£9,535 | £25,800 |
UK (home) or international fees?
The level of fee that you will be asked to pay depends on whether you're classed as a UK (home) or international student. Check your fee status.
Fees for subsequent years
- UK (home) fees may increase within the government fee cap in subsequent academic years. We will notify you of any increase as soon as we can.
- International fees are subject to increase in subsequent years in line with the prevailing Consumer Price Index (CPI) inflation rate (up to a maximum of 10%).
More information
For more information about tuition fees, any reduced fees for study abroad and work placement years, scholarships, tuition fee loans, maintenance loans and living costs see undergraduate fees and funding.
Additional costs
You may find it useful to buy textbooks, and for some modules this may be required. Textbooks usually cost around £30 - £60 each.
Funding
We'll confirm more funding opportunities for students joining us in 2025/26 throughout the year.

The University has plenty of societies where you can meet new people with similar interests. Some brilliant examples are the Business Management and Accounting Society, Entrepreneurs Society and Global Markets and Trading Society.
York, Oxford, Cambridge, Imperial
Just four UK universities are rated Gold for teaching and top ten for research* in the latest national assessment exercises.
* Awarded joint 10th in the Times Higher Education ranking of the Research Excellence Framework 2021.
Teaching and assessment
You’ll study and learn with academics who are active researchers, experts in their field and have a passion for their subjects. Our approach to teaching will provide you with the knowledge, opportunities, and support you need to grow and succeed in a global workplace. Find out more about our approach to teaching and learning.
Teaching format
We focus on teaching the skills and expertise that employers want. We use practical problems and case studies from our industrial partners to ensure our modules are relevant to modern industry. Our passionate tutors' research-led teaching puts you at the forefront of current issues in business and management.
We use a wide range of teaching methods to suit different learning styles, including:
- Lectures
- Small-group seminars
- Activity-based workshops
- Group projects
- Individual projects
Our courses are designed to encourage you to take responsibility for your own learning and development, but with all the support you need available from our academics.
Timetabled activities
In your first year, you can expect:
Lectures | 3-5 hours per week |
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Seminars | 3 hours per week |
Workshops | 0-2 hours per week |
These figures are representative of a typical week. Your contact hours will vary throughout the year due to your module choices, non-compulsory classes, exam periods and changes to scheduled activities.
Outside your timetabled hours, you'll study independently. This may include preparation for classes, follow-up work, wider reading, practice completion of assessment tasks, or revision.
In the UK, full-time students are expected to spend 1,200 hours a year learning. That's about 40 hours of classes and independent study each week during semesters. Everyone learns at a different rate, so the number of hours you spend on independent study will be different to other students on your course.
Teaching location
You will be based in the School for Business and Society on Campus West. Most of your teaching will take place in the Church Lane Building, with additional contact hours elsewhere on Campus East and Campus West.
About our campus
Our beautiful green campus offers a student-friendly setting in which to live and study, within easy reach of the action in the city centre. It's easy to get around - everything is within walking or pedalling distance, or you can use the fast and frequent bus service. Take a campus tour.
Assessment and feedback
You will be assessed using a mixture of essays, projects and examinations. For some modules you'll produce reports, strategy documents or group presentations.
In your final year you will have some scope to choose forms of assessment that you prefer through selection of optional modules. You can pick modules which emphasise presentation skills, essay writing or exams. You could choose to work on an extended dissertation based on your own research and analysis of a current issue or problem in management.
Careers and skills
Our bespoke employability sessions help you identify and improve your skills. Our dedicated support team will help you to build an employability portfolio and to present yourself at your best for the next step of your career.
Our graduates go on to careers in all aspects of business and management. Many progress to postgraduate degrees at York and other leading universities.
Career opportunities
Recent graduates' positions include:
- Project Manager
- Junior Consultant
- Operations Manager
- Sales Executive
- Managing Director & Global Brands Director
- Area Manager
- Assistant Management Accountant
- Human Resources Graduate
Transferable skills
- Critical thinking
- Problem solving
- Communication, presentation and reporting
- Numeracy and data analysis
- Time management
- Teamwork and leadership
- Negotiation and persuasion

We are very fortunate to have our own in-house employability team. They put on countless presentations and events throughout the year on topics ranging from acing interviews and assessment centres to how to network on LinkedIn.
Entry requirements
Qualification | Typical offer |
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A levels | AAB |
Access to Higher Education Diploma | 36 credits at Distinction and 9 credits at Merit or higher |
BTEC National Extended Diploma | DDD |
Cambridge Pre-U | D3, D3, M2 |
European Baccalaureate | 80% overall |
International Baccalaureate | 35 points |
T levels | We will consider a range of T Level qualifications for entry. Please visit our dedicated T Levels page for a full list of accepted T Levels. |
Scottish Highers / Advanced Highers | Scottish Highers - AABBB
Advanced Highers - not required for entry
We may also be able to consider three Advanced Highers or a combination of Highers and Advanced Highers, where an applicant does not meet the grade requirement through Highers alone. Please contact us to discuss your qualifications. |
International foundation programme | Foundation Certificate from our International Pathway College or an appropriate alternative. |
Other international qualifications | Equivalent qualifications from your country |
Additional requirements
We also require GCSE Mathematics at grade 4 (C) or equivalent. We do not accept adult numeracy in lieu of GCSE Maths.
Alternative offers
Meeting the following additional criteria may qualify you for an alternative offer.
Criteria | Adjustment |
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Widening participation | If you successfully complete one of the following programmes, you may be eligible for an alternative offer up to two A level grades (or equivalent) below our typical offer: Black Access Programme, Next Step York, Realising Opportunities. More about widening participation. |
Contextual offer | BBB |
EPQ | If you achieve B or higher at EPQ, you may be eligible for an alternative offer up to one A level grade (or equivalent) below our typical offer. |
Core Maths | If you achieve B or higher in Core Maths, you may be eligible for an alternative offer up to one A level grade (or equivalent) below our typical offer. |
English language
If English isn't your first language you may need to provide evidence of your English language ability. We accept the following qualifications:
Qualification | Minimum requirement |
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IELTS (Academic) | 6.5, with a minimum of 6.0 in each component |
Cambridge CEFR | 176, with a minimum of 169 in each component |
Oxford ELLT | 7, with a minimum of 6 in each component |
Oxford Test of English Advanced | 136, with a minimum of 126 in each component |
Duolingo | Integrated subscores: 120 overall, with a minimum of 105 in each component |
GCSE/IGCSE/O level English Language (as a first or second language) | Grade C / Grade 4 |
LanguageCert SELT | B2 with a minimum score of 33/50 in each component |
LanguageCert Academic | B2 Communicator with a minimum score of 33/50 in each component |
Kaplan Test of English Language | 478 Main Flight score with 444 in each component |
Skills for English | B2: Merit overall, with Pass with Merit in each component |
PTE Academic | 61, with a minimum of 55 in each component |
TOEFL | 87 overall, with a minimum of 21 in each component |
Trinity ISE III | Merit in all components |
Other English language qualifications | We also accept other English Language qualifications, including various school-leaving certificates. |
For more information see our undergraduate English language requirements.
If you haven't met our English language requirements
You may be eligible for one of our pre-sessional English language courses. These courses will provide you with the level of English needed to meet the conditions of your offer.
The length of course you need to take depends on your current English language test scores and how much you need to improve to reach our English language requirements.
After you've accepted your offer to study at York, we'll confirm which pre-sessional course you should apply to via You@York.
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