Business and Analytics (Extended Degree) BSc (Hons)

How will I learn during this Business and Analytics BSc course?

You’ll learn through a variety of teaching methods including lectures, seminars, problem-based workshops, webinars, case discussions, practical activities, group work and tutorials. To help you develop your independent learning skills, you’ll also complete directed tasks – assignments you undertake in your own time.   

We back up all our teaching with well-designed support systems to help you get the most from your opportunities. And we make sure that we build extensive feedback, from both tutors and peers, into the course. Throughout your studies, you’ll be able to discuss any academic or personal issues with your Personal Tutor.   

Assessments involve applying business principles to solve problems and then demonstrating your thinking through business reports, presentations, portfolios and more. In the final year, you’ll complete an assessed dissertation, management enquiry or consultancy project.

How will I be assessed?

There are a wide variety of assessments used across each year of the programme, including written assignments, reports, examinations, individual, and group presentations. In your final year, you will undertake a substantial piece of research work, either in the form of an individual dissertation, management enquiry or a group consultancy project. While assessments are usually individual work, there are various modules across the programme which include group work and thereby give you opportunity to develop skills in teamwork, negotiation, and leadership.

For assignments and portfolio work, you will be supported in your seminars, where tutors will share marking criteria prior to the assignment being handed in. This means that you will have a clear guidance on the expectations of the marker. Tutors will also provide feedback which will give clear guidance on areas of strength and weakness.

Who teaches this BSc Business and Analytics course?

Newcastle Business School has a global reputation for delivering some of the UK’s best business education. We’re part of an elite group of business schools worldwide with double accreditation from the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB) in business and accounting.

Modules will be delivered by a team of academic staff who possess a combination of academic qualifications and relevant professional practice. Our staff are engaged in various research, consultancy, and practice-based activities, which will impact your learning and be embedded into the teaching.

How will I be supported during my time at Northumbria?

Academic staff will support you through taught sessions, as well as planning activities for you to engage with during independent study time. Our academics will be available for further support outside of formal scheduled teaching, such as through student-drop-in sessions. You will also be allocated a Personal Tutor, who has responsibility for your personal wellbeing.

You will have access to a range of university learning support services. These consist of sessions conducted by library staff on core academic skills such as referencing and academic writing. If you are an international student, there are specialist academic skills sessions built into your studies, which will help with the academic language in your modules of study.

In addition, you will also have access to the central Student Support and Wellbeing service, who offer a range of services including support with welfare and health, finances, international student support, disability and dyslexia, counselling and mental health, and chaplaincy and faith advice.

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Where will I learn during my degree?

At Newcastle Business School you’ll experience a first-class education in a world-class environment. From our social spaces and hub areas to lecture theatres and exhibition spaces, our facilities are exceptional. For example, the 24/7 university library achieves some of the highest levels of student satisfaction in the UK and has held the Cabinet Office accreditation for Customer Service Excellence since 2010. 

We’re also committed to helping you make the most of Technology Enhanced Learning (TEL) by embedding it throughout the course. Tools such as the ‘Blackboard’ eLearning Portal and electronic reading lists are there to help you efficiently and thoroughly prepare for seminars and independent research. Lecture capture software means you can revise previously lectured material online in your time, as well as at your speed. 

What’s more, there are plenty of opportunities to put your learning into practice through volunteering, internships, and placements. This includes the Business Clinic that provides student consultancy facilities to work with our clients in response to their business problem. Our clients are drawn from a range of organisations including multinationals, SMEs, not-for-profit charities, and social enterprises from across the region and nationally.

How is research applied to teaching throughout my degree?

There’s a strong research ethos at Northumbria and it plays an important role in how you’ll develop as a critical, reflective and independent thinker. We take an enquiry-based, problem-solving approach. This introduces you to key research skills including information literacy, sampling, statistical reporting and surveying. In the final year you’ll undertake a significant investigatory task that can be either a dissertation, management enquiry or consultancy project.  

Throughout the course your learning will be shaped directly by the teaching team’s active research into their specialist subjects, as well as signature research themes that include digital business, strategic innovation and entrepreneurial leadership, and responsible business.

How does this course set me up for my future career?

Making your career happen is at the heart of all our Business courses – with every module designed to reinforce the transferable skills you’ll need in the workplace. Nevertheless, we also have dedicated modules focusing on career-development skills where you will practice and develop skills necessary to obtain a placement or graduate employment in a supportive environment.

Beyond the classroom, you’ll have opportunities to develop your career through practical experience and wider learning. In your second year, you can spend a semester studying abroad, or take an extra year before your final year studying elsewhere in the EU, or further afield such as the USA, Australia or China. 

There’s also the option of a work placement year, where our Internship Programmes are on hand to help you gain hands-on Business Analytics experience. And there’s our Business Clinic, offering you the chance to work with real clients to help solve their business challenges.  

If you decide not to take a year/semester out on a work placement or study abroad, there are still plenty of opportunities available. Our extensive network of operations, business professionals (including many past graduates) offer you extra opportunities to attend networking events and meet the associated professional bodies, allowing you to sculpt a truly distinctive CV to use in the graduate marketplace.

After graduating, you may wish to embark on Postgraduate study. And there are a wide range of potential future career areas including Business, Systems, or Process Analyst, Scheduler, Market Insight and Competitor Analyst, and many more. Your progression into such employment after graduation is supported by our careers service, as well as the skills and knowledge developed throughout the programme.