Going through Clearing and wondering what to do next? Our business degrees could be a great option for you.
Degrees in the Business and Management area are often reported as being among the most popular degree subjects in the UK.
Here’s our top reasons to choose them this Clearing season:
- Transferable skills
Studying business typically builds skills that can apply to any working role and your everyday life.
From financial expertise to effective communication skills, analytical thinking, problem solving, presenting and decision making and many more, these skills will stay with you.
Studying business is as much about ethics, as much as it is about making money, a great acumen to hold in challenging times.
Whether you take a degree in marketing, finance, or general management, you will build attributes in demand for a wide range of roles.
- Keeping your options open.
It might be a cliché, but business is everywhere. Studying a business subject like marketing, accounting or general management can mean career opportunities in so many fields.
Careers that follow a business degree range from those in finance departments, investment, insurance, business analytics, human resource management, business consultancy, public relations and many more.
Learning how a business operates will also help you to build entrepreneurial skills that could help you to launch your own venture.
- Salary returns
According to recent data, business subjects offer promising career prospects and competitive salaries.
Work transparency platform, Glassdoor shows that business graduates can expect an average salary of around £30,290 per annum, noted as ‘very high’.
Finance graduates can expect even more at £31,740. Marketing graduates are also at a respectable average of £29,400.
And, as you move through your career you can expect significantly more. Recent statistics from SavetheStudent put Marketing, Sales and Advertising Directors as the second highest paid profession in the UK with PR and Communications Directors, Financial Managers, General Managers and Project Managers not far behind.
- Accreditations
Business Schools take connections to industry and professional bodies seriously. For example, as a school, KBS has accreditations with the European Quality Improvement System (EQUIS) accreditation from the European Foundation for Management Development (EFMD). The Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB) and The Association of MBAs (AMBA).
The three official bodies inspect and review Business Schools (a bit like Ofsted), and it’s a rare thing for all three to give their stamp of approval – only one per cent of business schools worldwide have gotten the so called ‘Triple Crown’.
KBS also has course level accreditations. For example, Undergraduates with accountancy specialisms often go on to take exams with their professional bodies in order to become chartered accountants. On our accounting courses we work with professional bodies like the ACCA, CIMA, ICAEW, CIPFA, CPA to keep our courses up to date and relevant to industry, so we’re always making improvements and working to reaccredit our modules with them. We know that it matters because every exemption means one less exam to sit with a professional accounting body, helping you reach the goal of becoming a Chartered Accountant even quicker.
We’re always working with these professional bodies, especially when we update or make improvements to a course. For example, for our BSc in Business and Marketing we’re working to have it accredited by the Chartered Institute of Marketing which means you’ll gain qualifications through the CIM Graduate Gateway, something highly sought after by employers.
- Putting it into practice
Our business courses come with practical work experience opportunities such as our Year in Industry.
Learning the theory of business during your first and second years provides a perfect steppingstone for a successful and confident placement year where you can apply what you have learned and get a feel for your future. Students like Morgan (pictured above) who was given a great deal of hands-on experience at Microsoft and even offered a graduate role following his placement year.
There is also the chance to either study at a university or work a placement on a Year Abroad, where you can gain experience of a different culture and be able to travel the world within your degree while learning the differences of business in other parts of the world.
Students like Diya took her Year in Industry abroad and ended up working for the same business as an auditor in Europe.
- Build a strong network
When you graduate from Kent Business School you become part of our globally connected alumni community of more than 25,000 graduates from 87 countries. Life at KBS doesn’t stop after graduation and as part of our alumni community you benefit from free and inclusive support and networking opportunities that last a lifetime.
From extended Careers and Employability support, networking and reunion evenings, discounts for postgraduate study and opportunities to support future cohorts, the benefits of being part of our alumni are endless.