Hartpury University expands portfolio with new business management degree

By Peter Davison

7 September 2023

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Hartpury University in Gloucestershire has unveiled a brand-new BSc (Hons) Business Management degree that is now open for September 2024 applications.

The degree will become its first higher education qualification outside of the traditional land-based and sport specialisms. It will be complemented by a new Top-Up MBA, also launching in 2024, for those wishing to top-up existing postgraduate qualifications and progress their business career.

The new business pathway is targeted at those students who want to become confident business professionals and pursue a career in a multitude of national and international sectors in roles such as business analysts, supply chain managers, project managers, or investment bankers.

Developed in consultation with leading business professionals, this new undergraduate degree will equip students with an in-depth understanding of the core principles of business and leadership, as well as essential transferable skills and applied industry experience.

While this is the first standalone business degree offered by the Gloucestershire institution, Hartpury has a reputation of delivering high-quality business degrees within its specialist subject areas, including sport, equine, and racing.

Students will study a series of core modules that have been developed exclusively for this degree, including the Essentials of Business Management, Being a Business Leader, Marketing Business Consultancy, Business Analytics and Finance, Project Management and Managing Change, Live Business Consultancy, and Global Business Environment.

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Dr Steve Butts, Academic Dean: Teaching, Learning & Student Experience at Hartpury University said: “Our new business management degrees build upon Hartpury’s externally-recognised excellence in teaching and learning, as well as capitalising on our powerful links with industry. Both the BSc and MBA offer an exciting alternative pathway for those seeking broader options away from the land-based and sports degrees for which we’re so well known.”

Recent investment in campus facilities will also benefit BSc (Hons) Business Management students including the addition of a £12.75m state-of-the-art University Learning Hub set to open its doors during the 2023/24 academic year.

The two-storey sustainable building is the first to be built solely for use by higher education students, serving both study and social needs as well as providing access to support and guidance.

By Peter Davison

Peter Davison is deputy editor of The Business Magazine. He has spent his life in journalism – doing work experience in newsrooms in and around Bristol while still at school, and landing his first job on a local newspaper aged 19. By 28 he was the youngest newspaper editor in the country.

An early advocate of online news, he spent the first years of the 2000s telling his bosses that the internet posed both the biggest opportunity and greatest threat to the newspaper industry and the art of journalism. He was right on both counts.

Since 2006 he has enjoyed a career as a freelance journalist. He lives in rural Wiltshire with one wife, two children, and three cats.