Business Management and Digital Innovation with Professional Placement Year BSc (Hons)

**Reasons to choose Kingston**<br/><br/><br/>- In just three years, you’ll graduate with a business degree and the real-life practical experience and skills that employers are looking for.<br/><br/><br/>- This course is designed and developed in collaboration with industry experts across different areas of the business world to ensure content reflects latest trends, challenges and practices.<br/><br/><br/>- Kingston Business School has been recognized for quality by the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB). This award is earned by just five percent of the world’s business schools.<br/><br/><br/>- Graduate employability is embedded in module activities and extracurricular events such as networking with industry professionals, hackathons and speed interviewing.<br/><br/><br/>- Our commitment to high quality teaching has been recognised with a Teaching Excellence Framework (TEF) Gold rating. The University has received an overall rating of Gold, as well as securing a Gold award in the frameworks two new student experience and student outcomes categories. <br/><br/><br/>**About this course**<br/>This new course will cover the fundamentals of the business eco-system and the key current and future aspects of developing data and digital enhanced solutions in business. This area includes the disruption nature of technology on business models and also provides exposure to how technology can drive value in areas such as finance, marketing, supply chain, service design, sustainability and human resource management. <br/><br/>The course will prepare you to manage technology informed projects in a responsible and sustainable way. A key strand is entrepreneurship and design – developing your ability to respond proactively to current business problems and priorities.<br/><br/>**Professional Placement Year**<br/>This course has a professional placement year which takes place between Year 2 and your Final Year. During this year you will take a placement within a business setting, ensuring you gain essential experience to add to your CV and help you secure a graduate job.<br/><br/>**Future Skills**<br/>Embedded within every course curriculum and throughout the whole Kingston experience, Future Skills will play a role in shaping you to become a future-proof graduate, providing you with the skills most valued by employers such as problem-solving, digital competency, and adaptability.<br/><br/>As you progress through your degree, youll learn to navigate, explore and apply these graduate skills, learning to demonstrate and articulate to employers how future skills give you the edge.<br/><br/>At Kingston University, were not just keeping up with change, were creating it.<br/><br/>**Career opportunities**<br/>This course will enable you to work in a variety of organisations, from large companies to SMEs. You will be supported to start your own businesses or progress to postgraduate degrees and professional qualifications.