Business and Management

Business and management is concerned with how organisations are created, led, and sustained, and how the decisions made within them shape outcomes for employees, customers, shareholders, and wider society. It draws on economics, psychology, sociology, law, and quantitative methods to build a comprehensive picture of commercial and organisational life, and it asks both practical questions, about strategy, operations, and finance, and more fundamental ones about purpose, ethics, and how businesses should relate to the world around them.

At the University of Portsmouth this three-year full-time programme develops your ability to see the bigger picture and to understand how individual decisions connect to wider organisational strategy and external market conditions. You will study marketing, finance, human resource management, organisational behaviour, and strategic management, building both theoretical foundations and the applied thinking that professional contexts demand. The programme includes a sandwich year, a year abroad, and work placement opportunities, giving you a combination of professional experience and international exposure that significantly strengthens your preparation for a competitive graduate job market.

Business and management graduates work across every sector of the economy, in roles that span management consultancy, marketing, finance, human resources, operations, entrepreneurship, public sector management, and international trade. The degree is deliberately broad, which makes it well suited to people who have not yet determined exactly which aspect of business they want to specialise in, while also providing the foundation for postgraduate specialisation in areas such as marketing, finance, supply chain management, or strategic management. Many graduates also go on to start their own ventures, applying the frameworks and analytical skills developed during the degree to their own entrepreneurial ambitions.