Choosing a Business degree at Kent

Kent Business School offers a choice of business and management degrees on the University of Kent’s campuses at Canterbury and Medway and, in partnership with Imperial College London, at the campus in Wye.

Kent Business School is the University of Kent’s largest and most forward-looking department.  We have alliances with some of the most prestigious institutions in the world and our MBA programme is accredited as being world-class. All the programmes we offer are innovative, relevant, academically rigorous and offered within a truly international context with a European focus - yet each campus offers a distinctive student experience.

A Business degree at Kent means that you will effectively be learning in partnership with a fully-dedicated team of 57 academics from 20 different countries and undergraduate students from 47 countries.  We work closely with organisations in both the public and private sectors, using our international expertise to create latest models of business and management practice that will impact the way organisations work.   Interested in being a part of that? 

Discover your Business degree options at Kent

Business Studies at Medway – a newly renovated and highly relevant business degree that will give you a good overview of today’s complex business issues and equip you with the understanding and key skills to work effectively. The programme is designed so that you can pick and choose those areas of business which you find most exciting like international business or entrepreneurship. By choosing different specialist pathways you can also gain access to professional accreditation. This programme has a mandatory 1 year work placement which is a reflection on its vocational nature and the excellent links the School has with industry. The student experience is highlighted by the brand new dynamic Medway campus over looking the historic Chatham dockyard.

Business Administration (BBA) at Canterbury – this is the Business School’s most popular programme and is highly regarded by employers. It reflects the increasingly global nature of business and aims to equip you with the know-how, techniques and skills you need to success in the key areas involved in managing organisations.  This option allows you the flexibility to choose modules available in other areas like marketing or accounting and even to take modules offered on other degrees available at the university like law, computing or modern languages.  On this programme the one year work placement is optional and may be substituted for a year abroad.   The student experience is highlighted by the friendly, attractive campus and the proximity of the City of Canterbury.

Applied Business Management at Wye.  As a result of a partnership between Imperial College London and the University of Kent, these business programmes have a strong underpinning in economics and offer a broad range of subjects including quantitative methods, finance, accounting and law.  What sets the ABM apart from the others is that they also include modules on environmental economics looking at the way man’s use and impact of the environment affects business issues. There is an option to do a year’s work placement and to progress to MSci level by doing an additional year.  More about this unique partnership and the Wye campus experience can be found at www.imperial.ac.uk/wyecampus.

Do you have strengths and ability to excel in other areas?  In addition to Business, we offer specialist degrees on the Canterbury campus that can help you differentiate yourself on the job market and define your career early on. 

Management Science
Management Science is also known as operational research or decision analysis.  Graduates with good quantitative skills and with the ability to analyse and communicate data which will help solve complex problems are in enormous demand.  Kent Business School has one of the top management science groups in the country and their research feeds directly into the programme. For more information about this exciting subject and examples of careers in demand visit www.thescienceofbetter.org

Accounting and Finance
This degree has been designed to make sure it responds to the needs and expectations of the modern accountancy profession.  Accountants are probably best know for checking the validity of company accounts and “auditing”, but that is not all they do.  They also devise and operate financial systems, conduct investment analysis, advise on business start-ups, company takeovers and company rescue schemes. If you think you would enjoy a career along these lines then this degree is a good option.  By doing this degree at Kent Business School you will benefit from international expertise in this field and close contacts with partners like the IFS (Institute of Financial Services).

IR and HRM
This specially-designed programme at Kent Business School was one of the first of its kind in the UK. It is a multidisciplinary subject and so we developed a degree which allows you to draw on the resources of a number of departments across the University, in areas such as Law, Economics or Social Policy.  The programme will give you a solid broad-based education in Employment Relations and Human Resource Management (HRM); an important and lively area of study. It can equip you for a career in personnel or HRM, or lay the foundations for a career in other areas of management,

Tourism Management
This exclusive programme provides students with a thorough understanding of one of the world's largest and most dynamic industries. Tourism Management is taught within the Kent Business School and so is a blend of both the study of tourism and the study of business and management. This combination develops the necessary analytical skills that future tourism leaders will need in both the public and private sectors. The programme is exclusive in that numbers are kept small and students come into close contact with world-class researchers and experts from the Tourism Industry, 

If you would like an informal discussion with a Programme Director on which option is the best for you, or if you would like us to come and give a presentation at your college or school, e-mail us at KBSinfo@kent.ac.uk and request a KBS One2One. We look forward to welcoming you.