Skills development
Our focus is on giving you the skills and knowledge that will benefit you - at whatever stage you are in your career.
We believe the key to your success is merging the academic and professional worlds. Our courses are designed to allow you to explore real-world issues through field trips, case studies, employer-based projects, industry competitions and visiting expert lecturers.
Work placements
Our undergraduates have the opportunity to undertake a paid work placement, giving them invaluable experience for their CV and putting their learning into context.
Businesses also benefit by bringing in enthusiastic talent before they graduate and from the final year project, which relates to the student’s placement.
Find out more about our placements.
Accrediting bodies
We work hard to ensure our courses reflect the latest industry thinking through close links with professional bodies.
When a course is accredited it can offer you exemptions from that association’s exams and access to a professional network. Some of our courses, like our Marketing Management BSc(Hons), enable you to graduate with two qualifications, your degree and an award from the Chartered Institute of Marketing.
You can find out more about the professional accreditations and exemptions on individual course pages.
AACSB
The Ογ½ΆΦ±²₯ is proud to be accredited by the – which is currently held by fewer than 6% of business schools globally.
By gaining AACSB accreditation, the university has achieved its ambition to join a group of institutions considered to be the best business schools in the world.
Accreditation provides robust evidence of our success in delivering ambitious learning outcomes for our students alongside industry engagement and impactful research that enhances practice and makes a positive societal impact. Our students also benefit from our commitment to the continuous improvement required to maintain accreditation.
It is particularly pleasing to be commended on our practices in promoting and supporting diversity and inclusion, our engagement and impact in the regional economy and society and the design and use of Elm House – the new building for the School of Business and Law – to support active learning, student-centred pedagogies and business engagement.
Find out more about this recognition.
UN Sustainable Development Goals
The United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (UNSDGs) are the blueprint to achieve a better and more sustainable future for all. They address the global challenges we face, including those related to poverty, inequality, climate change, environmental degradation, peace and justice.
As a signatory to a United Nations initiative to raise the importance of sustainability amongst business students globally, all our courses are designed to prepare students with the understanding and ability to deliver change tomorrow within the context of responsible business. As part of this, the UNSDGs are a major influence in the way in which we develop all our courses – enabling our students to become the leaders who reach the political, technological and financial solutions needed to create a more sustainable future for the planet. You can find out about the or .
Athena Swan Bronze Award
The school is proud to have achieved the Athena Swan Bronze award - it marks the progress that we as a school have made in embedding gender equality, but is also a roadmap of the work we must do going forward.
The seeks to promote gender equality, representation and progression within higher education and research. A Bronze Award recognises the steps that our school has taken in assessing data trends, practices and processes and identifying opportunities for developing an inclusive culture that values all staff within a five-year action plan.