We pride ourselves on our varied and innovative teaching and learning methods. In addition to lectures, tutorials and seminars you will participate in team work and role-play exercises, tackle case studies, prepare business plans, write management reports and give oral presentations. This is consistent with an overall design which provides regular interplay between theory and practice. Students tell us that they find them immensely enjoyable and rewarding, as well as being highly relevant to the taught material. Typically each of these is given roughly equal weighting in determining your final mark for a course.
All examinations take place in the summer term of the year in which the course is taken.
Coursework takes a variety of forms, including group presentations, dissertations, technical exercises, management reports, essays and computer work. This experience greatly enhances first employment prospects - indeed, many students are offered graduate jobs by the organisations they worked for on placement. For all students, the experience helps decide what sort of career they wish to follow and the sort of organisation for which they would like to work. It also enriches final year studies - most students do very well in Year 4 as a direct result of the experience and maturity gained while on placement. We have a very wide range of organisational contacts and we help you as much as we can to secure a suitable placement, though the final decision is made by yourself and the organisation concerned.