BA (Hons) Business Management with International Year One
Key Details
- Attendance
- Full Time
- Award
- Degree of Bachelor of Arts
- Course Length
- 3 years
- Course Start Date
- September 2025
Course Overview
Business is about numbers of course, but it’s even more about people. Our Business & Management degree will prepare you with the analytical tools that drive business strategy as well as the influencing and team building skills required in a successful business.
It’s a highly flexible programme which, after a solid grounding in year one, allows you the freedom of choice to specialise in those areas of business that interest you most.
There’s a great variety of subjects to focus on from marketing to talent development, from project management to law or entrepreneurship and many more.
Our course will deepen your overall business understanding while allowing you to keep your options open, until you choose where to focus.
This course is designed for international students with an academic background from outside of the UK. The first year taught at INTO UEA is designed to improve your English language skills, increase your knowledge of academic theories, and develop key study and research skills for undergraduate study, before you transition to the Norwich Business School (NBS).
At Norwich Business School, we believe that excellent management is all about complementing hard and soft skills. That means understanding numbers, their use and how they can shape your view about an organisation. It also means focusing on people, how they behave and why they behave as they do. On our course, you’ll become adept at this difficult balancing act, a skill that is highly prized in the business world. We believe that anyone can become a great manager, no matter what their background is, so our course is inclusive and welcoming to all.
You’ll have the opportunity to hone your qualitative and quantitative capabilities, while learning how to work with people, building your reflective skills, and developing your ability to look at yourself and your own work critically.
At UEA, we aim for an evidence-based management, so you will learn to pose questions and challenge assumptions and use evidence to make your own decisions and back them up. Students will develop quantitative and qualitative skills, learning how to deal with numbers and accounts, and how to interpret statistics, as well as how to manage people and resources. You’ll also gain experience working with others and presenting your findings and ideas. This is an invaluable practice for your career when you’ll need to not only develop solutions to problems, but also persuade people of their validity.
Norwich Business School is a friendly and supportive school, with a lively and international cohort. We are in a region that’s safe and welcoming, with a thriving business innovation and enterprise community. All our teaching is informed by our world-leading research and real-world business experience. That means you’ll gain knowledge of the latest issues and debates facing industry and employers.
Our current research interests include finance, accounting, employment systems and institutions, responsible business regulation, marketing, entrepreneurship and business strategy, and innovation, technology and operations management.
Study and Modules
Structure
The BA in Business Management with International Year One is designed to meet the specific needs of overseas students whose first language is not English, and who may be slightly short of matriculation qualifications for entry, or whose availability for first year study is out of phase with the university’s normal September entry date.
The International Year One year consists of three terms focusing on academic knowledge and study skills, with additional English for specific academic purposes. The programme ensures that international students, particularly those with a lower level of English language, are fully prepared to complete their undergraduate degree at the university.
By the end of your first year, you won’t just have a firm foundation, you’ll understand all the key disciplines of business and economics. Throughout your future career, you’re likely to work closely with these disciplines, so this understanding is extremely valuable – being able to communicate with and understand other disciplines is a crucial part of management.
COMPULSORY MODULES
(Credits: 120)Whilst the University will make every effort to offer the modules listed, changes may sometimes be made arising from the annual monitoring, review and update of modules. Where this activity leads to significant (but not minor) changes to programmes and their constituent modules, the University will endeavour to consult with students and others. It is also possible that the University may not be able to offer a module for reasons outside of its control, such as the illness of a member of staff. In some cases optional modules can have limited places available and so you may be asked to make additional module choices in the event you do not gain a place on your first choice. Where this is the case, the University will inform students.
Teaching and Learning
Teaching
All our teaching is informed by the latest research and real-world business experience. That means that you’ll benefit from the latest thinking in the industry. Many of our lectures are interactive, and across all our teaching you’ll use a rich selection of source material, including textbooks, articles, academic research papers, videos, and business articles from publications such as the Financial Times and The Economist.
Business is ever-changing, so you won’t just learn to understand, evaluate, and utilise the current leading theories, you’ll also learn how to develop the critical skills needed to examine and put to use any new theories and methods that are established during your future career.
Independent study
You’ll also learn through self-directed study – a skill that’s highly prized by employers. You will be set tasks to complete in your own time, working individually and in groups. You will also be encouraged to join one of our community engagement projects and have the opportunity to undertake the Duke of Edinburgh and UEA awards as well.
Teamwork and communication
Many of your first-year assignments are completed in groups to allow you to develop your communication and team working skills. Tutors will also facilitate group discussions in seminars and workshops, which can be very interesting and lively, especially since there is so much diversity in INTO students’ background and previous experiences.
Links to UEA
During your first year at INTO UEA, you will have regular link ups with students and lecturers at UEA to aid your transition to year two on campus. These meetings and events will allow you to ask questions and gather information to fully prepare yourself for your progression.
Employability
You can gain employment experience through one of our virtual internships which are offered in partnership with INTO Careers First. INTO staff will support you with your application and help you to apply what you learn through this valuable experience to your current and future studies
Assessment
You’ll be assessed through a mix of essays, presentations, reports and online tests. Our assessment methods have been developed not just to measure your skills, but also to aid your learning. For example, when you’re writing an essay, you’ll receive feedback on a formative exercise first. You’ll then have a chance to make revisions and improvements before handing in a summative essay for assessment. This helps you identify and focus on areas for improvement. The English team also dedicate time in classes to provide support and assistance with content assessments, including providing support and feedback for essays and allocating class time to practice presentations, on which the English teachers will give feedback and suggestions for improvement.
Employability
After the Course
In an ever-changing and increasingly complex world, one thing is certain: Norwich Business School is where great business careers begin. Our degrees have a proven track record of leading to successful careers in management.
Whether you want to excel within a large organisation or bring big ideas to a small business, your business management degree will provide you with the grounding of hard and soft skills required for a successful career in any number of management roles.
You could work in any industry, from manufacturing, to retail, to the service industries, media, arts, entertainment, sport and more, at multinational and major companies such as Sky, Unilever, Manchester United and British Airways. All businesses need the skills you will develop here, so the list is endless.
Careers
A degree at UEA will prepare you for a wide variety of careers. We've been ranked 1st for Job Prospects by StudentCrowd in 2022.
Examples of careers that you could enter include:
- HR manager
- Operations manager
- Supply chain manager
- Marketing manager
- Entrepreneur
Entry Requirements
Additional Information or Requirements
Satisfactory completion of A-levels, a recognised Foundation programme, or the first year of an overseas university degree programme with good grades, or equivalent.
English Requirements
From: IELTS of 5.5 overall and in each component.
Fees and Funding
Year 1: from £19,995
Year 2 & 3: View our information for Tuition Fees for subsequent years.
Course Related Costs
How to Apply
Applications need to be made via the INTO Online Application Form. Applicants cannot apply for this course via UCAS.