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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)

Available in Clearing
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

Events Management

Undergraduate - BSc (Hons)

Available in Clearing
Study in:
ARU Peterborough
Available as:
3 years full-time
,
4 years with foundation
,
4 years with placement
,
5 years with foundation and placement
Course features
  • Learn to create, plan and manage events
  • Get the business know-how you need, from strategy to marketing
  • Build your professional connections

Human Resource Management

Undergraduate - BSc (Hons)

Available in Clearing
Study in:
ARU Peterborough
Available as:
3 years
,
4 years with foundation
Course features
  • Build specialist expertise in human resource management, including recruitment, development and training
  • Use business facilities at ARU Peterborough
  • Acquire the skills to analyse and solve problems

Supply Chain Management

Undergraduate - BSc (Hons)

Degree Apprenticeship

Study in:
ARU Peterborough
Available as:
4 years
Course features
  • Gain a thorough insight into contemporary research and leading-edge practice within supply chain management
  • Develop transferable management and leadership skills for a wider business context
  • Work-based approach allows you to deliver impact in the workplace as you learn

Business Data Analytics

Postgraduate - MSc

Study in:
ARU Peterborough
Available as:
1 year full-time
,
18 months full-time
Course features
  • Explore the fields of business management and data science
  • Work with local industry professionals
  • Hone your consultancy skills
Study in:
ARU Peterborough
Available as:
1 year full-time
,
15 months full-time
Course features
  • Realise your management potential with real-life consultancy opportunities
  • Learn how to adapt your business without having a detrimental impact on society or the planet
  • Make strong professional connections by regularly working directly with industry professionals
Study in:
ARU Peterborough
Available as:
1 year full-time
,
15 months full-time
Accredited by:

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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.

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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.
Business student Emma

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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