Location

Canterbury, Epsom & Farnham

Start date

Sept 2026, Sept 2027

Duration

3 years full-time

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UCAS codes

Course: N200
Institution: C93

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Placement year

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Business and Management at UCA

Our BA (Hons) degree in Business and Management is the business degree for people who think and work creatively.

For 2026 entry this course is only available at our Epsom campus but for 2027 entry it will be available at all our campuses in Canterbury, Epsom and Farnham.

Please note, if you choose to study the Integrated Foundation Year this will be taught at Epsom and once completed you move to your chosen campus for your degree course.

Business skills, creative context

Surrounded by fashion designers, filmmakers, photographers and artists, you'll see and understand how the creative industries work first-hand. You’ll watch the wheels turn in media, fashion, and advertising and it will shape how you think about business, strategy, and leadership. When you graduate, you’ll have a unique edge to set you apart as you launch your career.

Taught by unique talents

Your tutors bring years of top-level experience from agencies, publishing houses, and brands – and many run businesses alongside teaching. Every session is shaped by people who understand what the industry actually expects from you, because they've sat on the other side of the table.

Your final project, your way

Instead of a dissertation, your third year is all about building something that reflects your passion in business and creativity – it could be a brand campaign, a digital product, a podcast, a startup pitch, or a visual narrative. The choice is yours and your work is judged by industry professionals. 

Built for careers that move

Professional development runs through every year – from live industry briefs and guest lectures to sessions in data analytics, content creation, and digital tools. You'll build skills in branding, strategy, finance, and supply chain, preparing you for roles across marketing, operations, entrepreneurship, and much, much more.

What you'll study

The content of the course may be subject to change. Curriculum content is provided as a guide.

UCA’s Integrated Foundation Year is designed to give you the skills you’ll need to start your degree in the best possible way – with confidence, solid knowledge of creative practice, study skills and more.

You’ll explore a range of creative techniques and develop your portfolio, with your chosen subject in mind. We’ll work with you throughout the year to ensure you’re on the right track and give you the tools to achieve your highest potential on your degree.

The Integrated Foundation course is taught at Epsom and once completed you move to your chosen campus for your degree course.

Find out more about the Integrated Foundation Year

Foundations of Marketing: 30 credits
You will be introduced to key marketing concepts, theories, and models used in contemporary marketing and communications. You will explore the role of marketing within organisations, develop an understanding of audience research and insight generation, and examine how marketing strategies support business goals. The module develops analytical and creative approaches, incorporating research methods, marketing communication, and industry-relevant outputs.

Career Catalyst: Skills & Capability: 30 credits
This module introduces social media as a strategic and creative marketing tool. You will explore how campaigns are researched, planned, and delivered across social media platforms, developing professional literacy in concept development, content creation, scheduling, and audience engagement. Ethical, sustainable, and inclusive approaches to social media practice are introduced alongside an awareness of platform dynamics and professional standards to support industry engagement and future progression.

Organisational Behaviour and Leadership: 30 credits
You develop your understanding of business and management with a focus on human aspects. It will introduce you to the key concepts, thinkers and analytical frameworks in the field, and to critical theories and practical knowledge of how people, management and organisations co-exist. It will also develop your understanding of the fundamental psychological, sociological, structural, and cultural factors that influence organisational behaviour.

Campaign Management: 30 credits
Acting in the role of an emerging business and management professional, you will respond to a live or simulated industry brief. You will engage in professional practices such as client meetings, presentations, and pitching, applying research, insight, and creative development skills in a business and management context. This module serves as the capstone for the year, drawing together learning from across the year.

Creative Media: Digital Futures: 30 credits
This module develops your ability to conceptualise, generate, and communicate ideas using digital design processes. You will engage with digital tools and software to create, refine, and present visual solutions across multiple creative disciplines, including advertising, media, and the wider Creative Industries. Emphasis is placed on creative thinking, technical proficiency, and professional workflows, preparing you for collaborative and audience-focused digital design practice.

Career Catalyst: Communities & Influence: 30 credits
In this module you will explore the basic concepts concerned with the production and creation of products (goods and/or services) by organisations from the global creative industries. This module emphasises collaboration, participation and develops professional agency, teamwork and networks, helping you understand how creative practice creates value, influence and opportunity within industry, civic and global contexts. In contemporary business practice, an awareness of ethics and environmental sustainability are also required.

Strategic Management: Funding, Finance and Business Modelling: 30 credits
You will explore the role of strategic and financial planning in the creative industries, drawing on live examples from international organisations and businesses. It examines how theory and practice intersect, using scholarly, business, and industry perspectives to understand the principles of successful organisational and financial decision-making. The module emphasises the development of numeracy, quantitative analysis, and financial planning skills, preparing you for employability in technologically evolving creative sectors.

Branding, Marketing and Data Technology: 30 credits
You are introduced to how branding and marketing operate within contemporary data-driven and technology-mediated environments. You will explore how digital platforms, analytics tools, and emerging technologies shape brand visibility, audience engagement, and marketing decision-making across creative and commercial contexts.

An optional Professional Practice or International Year may be undertaken between years 2 and 3, allowing you to gain industry experience or global exposure before your final year of study.

If you opt to complete a professional practice year, this will take place in year three. You will undertake a placement within the creative industries to further develop your skills and CV.

While on your Professional Practice Year, you will be required to pay a reduced tuition fee for that year. This fee will be determined using government funding regulations. Based on current regulations, we expect this to be a maximum of 20% of the tuition fee rate that you are charged for your second year of study. You will also incur additional travel and accommodation costs during this year. The University will provide you with further advice and guidance about this as you approach your Professional Practice Year.

Year 3 supports you in becoming an independent, critically informed business and management practitioner, capable of responding to global industry challenges and shaping your own professional direction.

Creative Business Futures: 30 credits
This module examines constant change in business by exploring innovation and entrepreneurial practice. It focuses on understanding barriers, evaluating challenges and opportunities, and developing original solutions for future-focused decision-making across various business contexts, including post-consumption and product lifecycles.

Career Catalyst: Futures & Direction: 30 credits
Focused on professional development, future planning, this is a futures-focused module that supports you in analysing global industry change and developing future-facing directions for creative practice, your creative identity and career ambitions. You will communicate insights through independent work, a professional portfolio, and critical reflection on potential career pathways and how your Major Project may support emerging career directions.

Major Project: 60 credits
In your final module, you will produce an independent body of work that demonstrates your creative, strategic, and critical capabilities. Your Major Project allows you to define a specialist direction aligned with your interests and career ambitions, supported by research, professional context, and reflective practice. Outcomes may be creative, entrepreneurial, or research-led, preparing you for graduate employment, further study, or self-directed professional pathways.

This course is designed to offer you (if eligible) the opportunity to study part of your degree aboard at a UCA partner university, while still earning credits towards your UCA degree.

For more information please visit the Study Abroad section

Integrated foundation year

  • Independent study: 72%
  • Scheduled teaching: 28%
  • Maximum percentage of scheduled delivered online: 20%

Year one

  • Independent study: 72%
  • Scheduled teaching: 28%
  • Maximum percentage of scheduled delivered online: 20%

Year two

  • Independent study: 74%
  • Scheduled teaching: 26%
  • Maximum percentage of scheduled delivered online: 20%

Year three

  • Independent study: 76%
  • Scheduled teaching: 24%
  • Maximum percentage of scheduled delivered online: 20%

Professional placement or International year (if undertaken)

  • Independent study: 98%
  • Scheduled teaching: 2%
  • Maximum percentage of scheduled delivered online: 100%

Please note: these details are for 2026 entry and could be subject to change for other years of entry.

Course specifications

Please note, syllabus content indicated is provided as a guide. The content of the course may be subject to change in line with our Student Terms and Conditions for example, as required by external professional bodies or to improve the quality of the course.

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We offer a range of webinars throughout the year that you may be interested in.

You can also view recordings of all previous sessions through the UCA webinar archive.


Fees & financial support

Tuition fees - 2026/27

  • Integrated Foundation Year: £5,760
  • BA course: £9,790

If you opt to study the Professional Practice Year, you will be required to pay a reduced tuition fee, for 2026/27 this is £1,955. You will also incur additional travel and accommodation costs during your Professional Practice year. The University will provide you with further advice and guidance about this.

Government guidance indicates that tuition‑fee caps will rise annually with inflation from 2026, subject to legislation, so tuition fees are likely to increase each year of study. 

Tuition fees - 2026/27

  • Integrated Foundation Year: £5,760 (see fee discount information)
  • BA course: £9,790 (see fee discount information)

If you opt to study the Professional Practice Year, you will be required to pay a reduced tuition fee, for 2026/27 this is £1,955. You will also incur additional travel and accommodation costs during your Professional Practice year. The University will provide you with further advice and guidance about this.

Government guidance indicates that tuition‑fee caps will rise annually with inflation from 2026, subject to legislation, so tuition fees are likely to increase each year of study. 

Tuition fees - 2026/27

  • Integrated Foundation Year: £18,000
  • BA course: £18,000

If you opt to study the Professional Practice Year, for 2026 you will be required to pay a reduced tuition fee of £3,490. You will also incur additional travel and accommodation costs during your Professional Practice year. The University will provide you with further advice and guidance about this.

The fees listed here are correct for the stated academic year only, for details of previous years please see the full fee schedules.

UCA scholarships and fee discounts

At UCA we have a number of scholarships and fee discounts available to assist you with the cost of your studies.

Financial support

There are lots of ways you can access additional financial support to help you fund your studies - both from UCA and from external sources. Discover what support you might qualify for please see our financial support information.

Additional course costs

In addition to the tuition fees there may be other costs for your course. The things that you are likely to need to budget for to get the most out of a creative arts education will include books, printing costs, occasional or optional study trips and/or project materials.

These costs will vary according to the nature of your project work and the individual choices that you make. Please see the Additional Course Costs section of the Course Information Document for more details of the costs you may incur.

Find out what's included in your tuition fees.

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Facilities & equipment

All of our campuses feature dedicated studios, study areas and digital media suites equipped with Macs and PCs which are programmed with specialist software including Adobe Creative Suite. On each campus there's a library with a wealth of books and publications, and open access photography and print studios.

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Business & Management career opportunities

Our Business and Management course will enable you to pursue a range of careers including:

  • Graduate Schemes
  • Entrepreneur
  • Product Buyer
  • Junior Manager
  • Production Team Lead
  • Postgraduate Study
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Your training on this course will prepare you for a wide range of postgraduate courses

We offer postgraduate opportunities in Business and Management and we will help you find the correct course for you and support you in your application should further study be for you.


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What our Business and Management students say

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Business & Management entry requirements

These courses don't require a portfolio but, if you're UK-based and you receive an offer, we'd still like to meet you at an Applicant Day. Further information will be provided once you have applied.

UCAS applicants should also check our UCAS personal statement guide for business applicants.

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UCAS codes

  • UCA institution code: C93
  • Three year degree: N200
  • Plus professional practice year: N201
  • Plus integrated foundation year: N20A
  • Plus integrated foundation year and professional practice year: N20B

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