BSc Business Administration
The BSc Business Administration equips you with critical and creative decision-making skills to help boost your career.
Application deadline: 30 September
Registration deadline: 21 October
You study 12 courses to earn the BSc degree.
There are four degree pathways you can choose from:
- Business Administration
- Business Administration - Human Resource Management
- Business Administration - International Business
- Business Administration - Marketing
We also offer a Business Administration CertHE for which you must complete four courses. This is a qualification in its own right that also provides an entry route to degree-level study.
- Foundations of quantitative methods for sustainable organisations
- Interpreting management, market and consumption
- Information systems and organization studies
- International business and accounting
- Employability and Human Resource Management
- Strategic management and accounting
- Operations management and marketing strategy
- Managing organizational change and performance, or
- Marketing research and digital marketing, or
- The global economy and multinational enterprise
- Integrating management: business, leadership and innovation
- Consumer behaviour and global marketing, or
- Brands, branding and advertising, or
- International human resource management, or
- The individual at work and globalization, or
- Emerging markets and Asia Pacific business, or
- European business and international competition
Stage 1- four compulsory courses
Stage 2- three compulsory courses
Plus one optional stage 2 course
Stage 3- one compulsory course
Plus three optional Stage 3 courses
Stage 1- four compulsory courses
Stage 2- four compulsory courses
Stage 3- three compulsory courses
Plus one optional Stage 3 course
Stage 1- four compulsory courses
Stage 2- four compulsory courses
Stage 3- three compulsory modules
Plus one optional Stage 3 course:
Stage 1- four compulsory courses
Stage 2- four compulsory courses
Stage 3- three compulsory courses
Plus one optional Stage 3 course
When you graduate from the programme, you will be well-equipped for careers in business, management, consultancy and beyond, as well as for advanced academic study (including the Global MBA).
Dr Paul Dudley, Programme Director:
“The programme has specifically been designed to provide a platform to develop both essential knowledge and skills required to succeed in today’s business environment. In practice this means that as well as providing the core business administration learning elements, the programme focuses on key skill sets including the ability to analyse and evaluate current issues facing organisations in a global setting.”
Founded in 1879, Royal Holloway is one of the University of London’s six largest member institutions and is home to more than 9,000 students.
The BSc in Business Administration is led by academics within the School of Management. Now one of Royal Holloway’s largest departments, the School gives high priority to original research in international business, and the deep understanding of the subject that follows is reflected in its teaching of management studies. All staff members are active researchers, and the publication of their findings in books and journals is a key part of their professional work.
