About this course
‘Entrepreneur’.
More than just a title, it’s a state of mind. A lifegoal. Whatever your ambitions might be — starting your own business, scaling up a current ‘side-hustle’, taking the reins of the family firm, or driving creativity at a big, established company — we’ve got you covered.
On this course, you’ll explore entrepreneurship from every angle. Enjoy genuine flexibility with a choice of specialist modules, the chance to complete an internship or year-long placement, the invitation to study on five different continents, and a host of hands-on consultancy projects with real businesses.
Entrepreneurs see the world differently. They’re visionaries. They crave independence. If you’re considering one of the UK’s fastest-growing entrepreneurship courses, then you’ve already got that spark inside you — the mindset, the skillset, and the passion. We’ll nurture those qualities, teaching you how to turn ideas into action.
Entrepreneurship is a journey. That journey starts here, at NTU.
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Study in the heart of Nottingham — one of Europe’s top 25 student cities, and home to over 75,000 learners. -
Get flexible. Blend projects, internships and international study for a truly unique learning experience.
What you’ll study
What’s the difference between being ‘enterprising’ and ‘entrepreneurial’? What are the toughest challenges to starting up, and the biggest barriers to scaling up? How can you turn creative potential into attention-grabbing products and services, and develop the problem-solving, decision-making and risk-taking skills to become a true business visionary?
Entrepreneurs are doers, and this course is all about doing; working with companies of every shape and size, you’ll get the hands-on opportunities to explore, practise and perfect your business skills. Unlike other university courses, we span the whole spectrum of entrepreneurship — everything from launching your own business, to growing an existing one, to leading change from inside a large organisation (‘corporate entrepreneurship’, or intrapreneurship).
On our business management and entrepreneurship course, you’ll:
- get to grips with the essentials of business leadership — from accounting and finance, cashflow and profit, budgeting and break-even analysis, to holistic management strategies
- learn how companies achieve a competitive advantage with the vision, values and goals to stand out in crowded markets — and how clever marketing helps them to reach their target customers
- explore the importance of creativity in business, as well as the main challenges to innovation and growth — from social and cultural factors to the big-picture impact of economic and political changes
- work with real companies in the area of business management and entrepreneurship that matters most to you — choose a 60-credit project in starting up, scaling up, or ‘intrapreneurship’ (leading change from inside an organisation)
- have the chance in Year Two to complete a half-year entrepreneurship project, as you develop the hands-on practical skills to start or scale-up a business, in partnership with NTU Enterprise
- examine the new digital horizons of management and entrepreneurship — from big data to the growing influence of AI
- explore the social, ethical and environmental factors that today’s entrepreneurs need to be aware of — apply that knowledge for real by completing a business-facing Innovation Capability Assessment, and an optional emissions-focused sustainability project
- keep a close eye on your own personal and professional development — we’ll challenge your attitude to business, broaden your horizons, grow your key strengths, and show you what you’re truly capable of.
Here’s a full breakdown of the modules you’ll be studying.
Essentials of Business Development
This module introduces you to the dynamics of business and enterprise in the context of organisational growth, blending operations management theory with real-world challenges. You’ll explore how different types of organisations—start-ups, SMEs, large businesses, and the public sector—navigate decision-making, operational development, and strategic challenges. Emphasis is placed on the role of enterprise and entrepreneurship skills to design, deliver, and improve products and services, particularly in response to evolving customer preferences and sustainability pressures in a global landscape characterised by uncertainty and constant change.
Principles of Marketing
This module aims to provide students with a fundamental understanding of the basic tools and concepts of marketing. More specifically, you will be introduced to the core marketing functions and develop an understanding of the key concepts, frameworks and models encountered in marketing. You will also gain the knowledge and skills required to identify differing marketing orientations, in particular how organisations identify, understand and satisfy customers and develop the skills required to produce a blended marketing mix that will satisfy the needs of the target customer.
Accounting and Finance for Managers
Through this module you will develop the skills and competencies needed to make effective use of accounting information, especially for control and decision making purposes. You will explore how business organisations are financed and the constraints and limitations that financing imposes on them. You will also learn about the calculation of accounting profit and its importance to an organisation. You will develop skills that will allow you to identify relevant cash inflows and outflows of a proposed business project, and learn about utilising the techniques of break-even analysis in project decision making.
The importance and use of budgeting for forward planning, communication, coordination and control within an organisation will be covered, as well as the importance of cash and liquidity within an organisation and the construction of cash and working capital budgets. You will learn how to use cash and working capital management models and techniques and how to construct financial statements.
Other areas covered in this vast module include financial appraisal of long term capital investment proposals and valuation of company shares.
Economics and Data Analysis for Managers
This module will introduce you to a range of skills, methods and knowledge that are applied by professional economists. It will enable you to offer a distinctive contribution to business and management decisions involving the deployment of globally scarce resources. The module will enable you to demonstrate a range of applications of economic ideas, principles and techniques, and to identify resource consequences of business and managerial decisions in a national and international context.
Foundations of Managing and Organising
The focus of this module is on the management of work in organisations. Both work and management are carried out by people, the human resources of the organisation. During the module you will examine some of the key applications, policies and practices involved in the management of human resources. You will analyse their underlying theoretical basis and the effects on the organisation and society in general. You will also develop a holistic understanding from the viewpoint of both workers and management.
Personal and Academic Development
Helps you recognise the personal skills, behaviours and attributes you currently have, and supports you in formulating a continuous personal and professional development plan to develop the skills and knowledge you need to achieve your future ambitions and realise your full potential.
First half of Year Two – Core modules
Innovation in Business
Discover how innovation is transforming industries and reshaping business strategy. In this module, you’ll explore the impact of technological change, develop the skills to analyse business environments across different cultural contexts, and learn how organisations create lasting competitive advantages in a rapidly evolving world. Whether you're interested in emerging digital technologies, sustainable business practices, or global strategy, this module will equip you with the knowledge and analytical tools to understand innovation and its role in modern business.
Enterprise in Practice
This module develops an understanding of the nature, operations and business environment of small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs). In parallel it promotes the role of entrepreneurs and entrepreneurial activity in the economic context. Students will appreciate and understand the challenges SMEs face and evaluate the importance of entrepreneurship in SMEs. Support infrastructures and policies are presented to help contextualise issues for SMEs. The module develops and underpins strategic thinking and an analysis of business operations, business growth options and business environment.
Corporate Entrepreneurship
The Corporate Entrepreneurship module presents you with a tool kit that can unlock creativity, innovation and entrepreneurship in many institutions. The module is designed to widen your understanding of the changing world of business management and the need for constantly renewing existing business processes in line with unexpected changes in the market. Specifically, the module is intended to stimulate debate about the essence of entrepreneurship in both private and public institutions. It provides you with essential tools that are necessary towards understanding and creating enterprising institution(s).
Second half of Year Two
You can select one of our unique opportunities initiatives below.
Option 1 – Study Abroad
Experience life in another country by studying at one of our partner universities. Choose from a host of countries in Europe or go further afield and study in the USA, South America, Australasia and South East Asia. This is a great opportunity to develop your independence and explore another culture.
Option 2 – Enterprise Project
Explore your entrepreneurial side and start to develop the meaningful and practical skills needed to run your own business. Supported by NTU Enterprise, NTU's centre for Entrepreneurship and Enterprise, during this opportunity you'll work alongside other young entrepreneurs and a dynamic network of mentors and advisors, to develop your own ideas into a live enterprise project.
Option 3 – Internship
Get a taste of the working world and gain some essential industry insight with a 16-18 week work placement. The experience will allow you to put your learning in to practice, with the experience gained improving your future career prospects, and sharpening your interpersonal and professional skills.
Placement Year
In year three, you have the option to take a placement year. This time spent working in business provides our students with crucial work experience, which is highly prized and much sought after by employers upon graduation. We have links with a wide range of sectors, firms and organisations that offer student placements. If you have decided to undertake a placement year then this will last for a minimum of 48 weeks during your third year.
Our Employability Team is here to inspire and enhance every stage of your career planning and as a graduate of NTU, you will be able to access their services for three years after your course has finished.
Services they provide include:
- finding placements, internships and part-time work
- pursuing self-employment
- taking gap years and time out
- getting into volunteering
- providing advice on further study.
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Taught modules
If you have decided to continue with your studies please view the 'final year' tab for your list of modules.
Developing Professional Impact
This module is designed to expand your horizons and challenge your attitudes and behaviours both in relation to subject specific issues and wider business concerns such as global citizenship and sustainable business practices. It will encourage you to build on your strengths and explore a range of possibilities as you embark on your next steps.
Entrepreneurship and Strategy in Action
This module will provide you with a global understanding of two key themes – strategic management and entrepreneurship. Integrating these two concepts represents the latest critical thinking in the field of strategic management, meaning this module will develop your awareness and practice of strategy-making and entrepreneurial behaviour in different markets and cultures.
Whether you are interested in starting your own business, or in creating new and distinctive ways of working with customers and stakeholders in large organisations as well as in small to medium sized firms, the content of this module will be critical to your knowledge set.
During the module you will research and identify entrepreneurial opportunities, and identify features, determinants and characteristics of the entrepreneurial process, and the integration of such processes with strategy-making in organisations. You will also explore theories and concepts that explain the differences between emergent, growing and mature businesses, and develop an awareness of entrepreneurial practices and key concepts such as innovation, networking and entrepreneurial leadership.
International Marketing and Communications
This module explores activity and developments from across the area of international and global marketing, including developments in world trade; ethical, environmental and sustainability issues; buyer behaviour and segmentation; developing an international strategy; and issues surrounding international marketing communications.
The module will also provide you with an advanced level of knowledge on the concepts of marketing at the various levels of export, international and global marketing; and a detailed understanding of the sources of international marketing information and the factors governing marketing research decisions at an international level. You will focus on how international marketing communication strategies are developed across a wide range of industries, sectors and organisations, whilst improving your research, analytical, communication, time management and team working skills.
Managing Creativity, Design and Innovation
The development of successful products and services involves complex processes and is dependent on how well the research, design and innovation activities are integrated with other functions in the organisation. This module will develop your understanding of the relationships between creativity, design and innovation, and explore and debate a range of perspectives concerning their nature. You will contemplate some of the issues facing organisations trying to harness the potential from their creative resources, and be encouraged to develop your own creative skills.
Over the course of the module, you will study a range of topics including perspectives on creativity, design and innovation, the nature and scope of innovation; origins of creativity; approaches to creativity theory; creativity and innovation as complex processes; innovation process models; design and development in a product and service context, and building and sustaining a culture focused on creativity and innovation.
Plus one optional module from:
Applied Business Research Project
For this module you will undertake a purposeful, individual, in depth study of a relevant topic, developing your independent learning, critical thinking and knowledge of research techniques relevant to your subject area.
The project will develop your ability to manage a major piece of work, for which you will be completely responsible, and will be completed over a period of several months. You will learn to utilise and improve your time management and communication skills, as well as test your initiative and resourcefulness.
To support your development during this module you will study essential skills such as critical thinking, conducting a literature review, understanding the appropriate research framework, practical research methods and skills, report and academic writing skills.
Sustainability Impact Project
Sustainability is one of the most pressing challenges facing modern organisations, influencing every aspect of business strategy and leadership. This module equips you with the critical skills and knowledge to navigate the complex social, economic, environmental, and managerial dimensions of sustainability. You'll explore how businesses are adapting to global challenges, balancing profit with purpose, and driving long-term success through responsible decision-making. By applying theory to real-world scenarios, you'll develop the problem-solving and analytical abilities needed to shape sustainable strategies, preparing you to be a future leader in an ever-evolving business landscape.
Plus one optional module from:
Global Supply Chain Strategy
Working at a strategic level, this module will clarify how marketing, design, distribution, logistics and project management may be integrated, and help you to develop a broader and deeper understanding of how supply chain performance can be strategically improved.
You will cover a number of areas during the module including; ·
- looking at supply chains from a strategic and global perspective
- key concepts in supply chain improvement
- interpreting lean and agile supply
- supply chain dynamics – forecasting, information flow and bullwhip
- design for the supply chain – postponement, mass customisation, product life cycle, sustainability
- managing CSR in the supply chain: sustainability, environment and transport
- managing risk in a supply chain.
Leveraging Information and Knowledge for Digital Transformation
In this module, you'll explore how organisations use data, information and knowledge to shape their strategy. You'll examine the role of technology in business decision-making, the importance of data literacy, and how organisations adapt to evolving challenges. Using real-world examples, you'll learn to distinguish between data, information, and knowledge, and understand their impact on shaping management practices and strategic opportunities. This module will equip you with the skills to navigate the complexities of digital transformation and make informed decisions in a data-driven environment.
Comparative and International Management
Influences of culture on management, and managing within and across diverse cultures, have become increasingly relevant in today’s business world. This module aims to address the issues of cultural differences, and practical implications of the internationalisation of management, the organisation and its people.
Personal experiences of national and organisational cultures – either through work in multinational corporations or travel far and wide – provide a rich pool of experiences, stories and ordeals that can serve as important inputs into discussions and debates about management, organisations, people and cultural diversity. This module adds to this experience through theoretical and conceptual knowledge and frameworks concerning different management styles and philosophies from an International Human Resource Management perspective. It uses practical experience and current topical research and case studies to explore key debates and issues central to the international organisations. During this module you will examine and explore problems that arise from these matters and the solutions that are needed.
We regularly review and update our course content based on student and employer feedback, ensuring that all of our courses remain current and relevant. This may result in changes to module content or module availability in future years.
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How you're taught
NTU is TEF ‘Gold’-rated for teaching and learning. One of our biggest assets is our team of lecturers and researchers — people who’ve walked the same entrepreneurial path, and who are here to share the secrets of independent, creative, successful business.
It’s the breadth of opportunities that defines this entrepreneurship course — the range of options, and the invitation to combine them all and create your own unique learning experience. Entrepreneurs bring business ideas to life, and that requires confidence; we’re here to make sure that confidence keeps on building through great experiences, exciting opportunities, and award-winning support. As well as learning through lectures, seminars, presentations and roleplaying, you’ll have the chance to:
- Work directly with companies — complete an internship in the second half of your second year, or a year-long placement in your third year of the sandwich route. SMEs are hungry for student and graduate talent: if you’re looking to launch or expand your own company, placements provide unparalleled insights into the opportunities, challenges and realities of modern business. You could even use your placement year to work on your own business idea!
- Study or work abroad, either in the second half of your second year (on the full-time programme) or for an extended half- or full-year trip in your third year (on the sandwich route). With partner universities spread across five continents, it’s a great opportunity. You can also apply for a one-week study tour to the Burgundy School of Business in Dijon, where you’ll learn with students from around the world, and collaborate on challenges with French businesses.
- Network and collaborate. We’re a passionate, community-focused course. From NBS’ Entrepreneurship Hub to the mentoring expertise at the Dryden Enterprise Centre, to our ‘Conversation With…’ panel events, we’re here to help you make connections and start conversations. You’ll thrive off the entrepreneurial energy of your coursemates and tutors, the visiting business leaders, and our worldwide network of successful graduates.
- Experience the real-world of business and entrepreneurship. Whether it’s the second- year Entrepreneurship project, the dedicated Sustainability Project, or your own final-year Research Project, you’ll be investigating real challenges facing real companies, and doing it in real time.
How you're assessed
People learn in different ways, and we want each one of our students to have the best possible chance of success. Our diverse range of assessment methods includes group poster presentations, work with external companies, business reports, consultancy and research projects, and much, much more. Your overall profile of assessments depends on the optional modules you choose throughout your business management and entrepreneurship course — but we don’t require you to complete any closed-book, on-campus exams.
Careers and employability
Our graduates get great jobs
Strong entrepreneurial skills have a home in every area of business, whether that’s the public, private or non-profit sectors, social or commercial enterprises, the smallest independent companies, or the largest multinationals. As a degree focused on every angle of enterprise, our BA (Hons) Business Management and Entrepreneurship course has also inspired self-employment for generations of students.
In the world of corporate entrepreneurship, our students are employed by organisations like NEC, Vodafone, House of Fraser and Transport for London. Over the years, they’ve progressed into senior roles such as Managing Director, Project Manager, Senior Consultant, Business Development Executive, Vice-President of Services, and many more.
Business management and entrepreneurship — a versatile, desirable degree
‘To be employed is a risk; to be employable is to feel safe.’
We’ve designed your business management and entrepreneurship course with this motto in mind. It’s a degree that opens doors in every corridor of business: you’ll graduate with a host of entrepreneur-specific skills, but also a rounded (and highly transferable) education in business management. For today’s employers, that’s the perfect package.
Be more than just a one-dimensional business student — with real-world experience of new and growing enterprises, proven critical-thinking and problem-solving skills, and hands-on success in a range of entrepreneurial projects, placements and industry competitions, be the candidate who’s got everything to offer.
Personalisation at NBS — what it means for you
NBS is a community of over 8,500 learners, drawn from countries, cultures and academic backgrounds all around the world. We’re big in every sense — from our industry reputation to our global community of ambitious students and successful graduates, to the sheer range of opportunities we provide. Study with NBS, and you’ll benefit from our partnerships with universities and businesses on every continent.
We’re proud to provide our learners with a very personal experience. Each student’s experience is uniquely theirs, built around their own specific needs, interests, and ambitions. It’ll be the same for you: whether choosing your own specialist modules or picking your preferred means of hands-on, experiential learning, we’re here to help you gather the skills, knowledge and experience to gain that vital competitive edge. Your future and employability comes first, and everything you’ll experience at NBS has a purpose — from industry networking events and prestigious guest speakers to the personal and professional development modules that’ll support each step of your university journey. Book onto an NTU open day to find out more.
Campus and facilities
You’ll be studying in NTU’s iconic Newton building — home to a community of 8,500 business students, over 350 academic experts, and an army of ambassadors, mentors, graduates and guest speakers. This is where successes are shared, business tips are traded, and new networks and enterprises are forged. Enjoy a stylish range of classrooms, lecture theatres and social spaces; our index-linked Business Lab, which gives you real-time access to the global markets; our newest addition, the Entrepreneurship Hub; and across from Newton, the Dryden Enterprise Centre. As an aspiring business entrepreneur, it’s the only place to be.
NTU’s City Campus has everything you’ll need to keep occupied between lectures. As well as the Boots Library and its beautiful roof garden, there’s our superb Students’ Union building and two-storey, 100-station gym; a whole host of cafés, bars, restaurants and food outlets; our much-loved Global Lounge; performance and rehearsal spaces for musicians; and so much more!
If that’s not enough, just take a few steps off campus, and you’ll find yourself in the beating heart of Nottingham — one of the UK’s top 10 student cities, and one of the top 25 in all of Europe. It’s a city stuffed with history, culture, and well-kept secrets to discover at your leisure: enjoy lush green spaces, galleries, hidden cinemas and vintage shopping by day, and an acclaimed food, drink and social scene by night.
For more insights, why not take a Virtual Tour?
Entry requirements
UK students
Standard offer: 112 UCAS Tariff points from up to four qualifications.
Contextual offer: 104 UCAS Tariff points from up to four qualifications.
To find out what qualifications have tariff points, please use our tariff calculator.
Additional requirements for UK students
There are no additional requirements for this course.
Contextual offers
If you don’t quite meet our entry requirements, we might be able to make you a lower offer based on a range of factors, including your background (such as where you live and the school or college you attended), your experiences and your individual circumstances (you may have been in care, for example). This is called a contextual offer, and we get data from UCAS to help make these decisions. We do this because we believe everyone with the potential to succeed at NTU should have the opportunity to do so, no matter what barriers you may face.
Meeting our entry requirements
Hundreds of qualifications in the UK have UCAS Tariff points attached to specific grades, including A-levels, BTECs, T Levels and many more. You can use your grades and points from up to four different qualifications to meet our criteria. Enter your predicted or achieved grades into our Tariff calculator to find out how many points your qualifications are worth.
Other qualifications and experience
NTU welcomes applications from students with non-standard qualifications and learning backgrounds, either for year one entry or for advanced standing beyond the start of a course into year 2 or beyond.
We consider study and/or credit achieved from a similar course at another institution (otherwise known as credit transfer), vocational and professional qualifications, and broader work or life experience.
Our Recognition of Prior Learning and Credit Transfer Policy outlines the process and options available for this route. If you wish to apply via Recognition of Prior Learning, please contact the central Admissions and Enquiries Team who will be able to support you through the process.
Getting in touch
If you need more help or information, get in touch through our enquiry form.
International students
Academic entry requirements: 112 UCAS Tariff points from up to four qualifications. We accept equivalent qualifications from all over the world. Please check your international entry requirements by country.
English language requirements: See our English language requirements page for requirements for your subject and information on alternative tests and Pre-sessional English.
Additional requirements for international students
If you need help achieving the academic entry requirements, we offer a Foundation preparation course for this degree. The course is offered through our partner Nottingham Trent International College (NTIC) based on our City Campus.
English language requirements
View our English language requirements for all courses, including alternative English language tests and country qualifications accepted by the University.
If you need help achieving the language requirements, we offer a Pre-Sessional English for Academic Purposes course on our City campus which is an intensive preparation course for academic study at NTU.
Other qualifications and experience
If you have the right level of qualifications, you may be able to start your Bachelors degree at NTU in year 2 or year 3. This is called ‘advanced standing’ entry and is decided on a case-by case basis after our assessment of your qualifications and experience.
You can view our Recognition of Prior Learning and Credit Transfer Policy which outlines the process and options available, such as recognising experiential learning and credit transfer.
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Getting in touch
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