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Business

You have a highly active mind and see opportunity everywhere. Now you need life-changing skills and theory from a business management degree to sharpen your approach to business and management, and turn your ideas into action. We'll match your ambition.

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Business and Management

Undergraduate - BSc (Hons)

Study in:
ARU Peterborough
Available as:
3 years full-time
,
4 years with foundation
Course features
  • Understand how businesses operate, with a focus on sustainability and entrepreneurial practice
  • Learn how to add value in managerial roles
  • Attend business events and make connections with local employers

Business Management

Undergraduate - BSc (Hons)

Study in:
Chelmsford
,
Cambridge
Available as:
3 years full-time
,
2 years accelerated
,
4 years with placement
,
4 years with foundation
Accredited by:

CMI

Chartered Management Institute logo

Business with Economics

Undergraduate - BSc (Hons)

Study in:
Cambridge
Available as:
3 years full-time
,
4 years with placement
,
4 years with foundation
Course features
  • Explore the latest business and economics trends
  • Build your network
  • Boost your CV with a placement year

Business with Entrepreneurship

Undergraduate - BSc (Hons)

Study in:
Cambridge
Available as:
3 years full-time
,
2 years accelerated
,
4 years with placement
,
4 years with foundation
Course features
  • Make your business ideas a reality
  • Develop new products and test prototypes in our supportive business environment
  • Stand out with a placement year

Business with Events Management

Undergraduate - BSc (Hons)

Study in:
Cambridge
Available as:
3 years full-time
,
2 years accelerated
,
4 years with placement
,
4 years with foundation
Course features
  • Study both business and events management
  • Work on real-life events in Cambridge
  • Gain experience with a placement year

Business with Finance

Undergraduate - BSc (Hons)

Study in:
Chelmsford
Available as:
3 years full-time
,
4 years with placement
,
4 years with foundation
Course features
  • Build your trading skills
  • Stand out with a Bloomberg certification
  • Enhance your CV with a placement year
Study in:
Cambridge
Available as:
3 years full-time
,
4 years with placement
,
4 years with foundation
Accredited by:

CIPD

Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development logo

Business with Marketing

Undergraduate - BSc (Hons)

Study in:
Cambridge
Available as:
3 years
,
2 years accelerated
,
4 years with placement
,
4 years with foundation
Course features
  • Study both business and marketing in Cambridge
  • Prepare for a Chartered Institute of Marketing (CIM) qualification
  • Stand out with a placement year

Business with Tourism Management

Undergraduate - BSc (Hons)

Study in:
Cambridge
Available as:
3 years full-time
,
2 years accelerated
,
4 years with placement
,
4 years with foundation
Course features
  • Study both business and tourism on an ATHE-recognised course
  • Speed ahead with our accelerated option
  • Gain experience of tourism and events with a placement year

Entrepreneurship

Undergraduate - BSc (Hons)

Study in:
ARU Peterborough
Available as:
3 years full-time
,
4 years with foundation
Course features
  • Develop critical enterprising skills and abilities
  • Use business facilities at ARU Peterborough
  • Acquire the skills to analyse and solve problems
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At the Faculty of Business and Law, we’ve designed our learning experience to help you amplify your talents and the impact you make in the world. Here through our different ways of learning, you’ll learn to think critically, creatively, and entrepreneurially. You can find your voice, grow in confidence and develop the skills you need to be a positive force for change in the world. Innovative and forward thinking, we do things differently to shape students who go on to stand up for justice, tackle inequality, champion sustainability and more.

You can boost your CV with our work experience and placement opportunities, as well as our unique ARU Certificate for Professional Development (ARUCPD).

And you don't have to wait until you graduate to follow your dreams: you could get a head start on your career with business support and mentoring from our start-up hub.

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Better futures

At ARU you'll be part of our Faculty of Business and Law. Our Dean, Professor Gary Packham, talks about the faculty's impact on your future.

Career support from day one

Study at a university that’s known for its entrepreneurial spirit and:

  • attend business events, seminars and talks
  • make connections with local employers
  • take an optional placement year in industry
  • benefit from ongoing careers and employability support
  • get business support and mentoring through our start-up hub.

Emma Scriven

"My placement helped me to gain infinite amounts of confidence and so many other skills, such as problem solving, resilience, thinking on my feet and communication. I feel so much more knowledgeable about the career I want to go into and the skills and experiences I need to get there."

Emma Scriven

BSc (Hons) Business with Human Resource Management student

Emma's story
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