Business Management with Cyber Security Foundation Year with Placement

Our BSc (Hons) Business Management with Cyber Security is your launchpad into the fast-moving digital economy.

This future-focused course mixes business management principles with cutting-edge cybersecurity strategies, so you’ll learn how to tackle the multifaceted challenges faced by contemporary organisations. As cyber-attacks grow, business needs smart leaders who can spot risks, stop breaches, and stay competitive. That could be you.

You won’t just sit in lectures, you’ll dive into real business challenges, work with industry experts, and the get hands-on with cybersecurity solutions within a business context, making you career-ready from day one.

You’ll explore everything from cyber risk assessments and compliance frameworks to incident response strategies, building real-world skills to tackle the digital threats of tomorrow.

With skills in both business and cybersecurity, you’ll be ready for loads of exciting roles such as business consultant, risk analyst, or even cyber team leader.

This course gives you the freedom to shape your path and chase the career that fits you best. And because businesses everywhere need people who get both strategy and security, you’ll be in high demand from day one.

This course connects you with industry pros and like-minded students, opening doors to internships, job offers, and future career moves.

At Solent, you’ll build a network that could shape your future and gain real-world experience in a course designed with your career in mind.

If you’re looking to study our business management with cyber security degree but don’t have the relevant qualifications or experience, the business and law foundation year will help you develop the core skills and knowledge to progress. Find out more about the business and law foundation year.

This course also offers the option of a placement year. A placement year allows you to put what you've learned in your first and second years into practice in the workplace, gaining valuable real-world work experience before you graduate. Our course and placements teams will help you find the perfect industry placement in your chosen field.

Solent's Clearing fast pass* gets you ahead, with priority support and everything you need to feel confident about your next step. Secure your guaranteed offer before results day and unlock a 20% discount on Kimber and Chantry student halls, a £100 IKEA voucher, free gold gym membership for the academic year, and a £150 campus dining voucher.

*T&Cs apply. Full details on our website.

Join the career-ready revolution this summer at Solent. Every course is designed around five things: real-world learning in every module; block teaching, so you study one subject at a time, not five assignments at once; direct links with employers and careers support for life. This isn't a tweak. It's a rethink of what university should be.

Our facilities are built with your future career in mind, including Warsash Maritime School, the Solent Sports Complex, science labs, animation and 3D modelling studios and applied mechanics and composites labs.

And outside class? Southampton has it all: shopping, culture, live music, football, cricket, festivals, markets, tiny Thai cafes, ghost walks and record fairs. It's friendly, walkable, and one of the UK's most affordable student cities. With a diverse community and societies for every interest, you'll find your tribe here too.

Ready to secure your place? Get in touch now.