Business Management, Entrepreneurship and Innovation with Placement

Business management, entrepreneurship, and innovation is a degree designed for those who want to shape ideas, lead change, and build ventures that respond to real needs. Business management provides the analytical and operational foundations needed to understand how organisations work, covering strategy, finance, marketing, and leadership. Entrepreneurship focuses on the process of identifying opportunities and creating value, examining how new ventures are conceived, launched, and grown.

Innovation broadens this further, exploring how organisations generate and implement new ideas, whether as start-ups or as established businesses seeking to adapt and evolve in changing markets.

At the University of Salford, this four-year, full-time programme with placement is for students who want to develop the confidence, creativity, and strategic thinking to make things happen, whether by launching a business, driving innovation within an existing organisation, or developing solutions to social or environmental challenges. You will study how entrepreneurs identify opportunities and build ventures that respond to real needs in society and the economy, developing both the analytical tools and the practical capabilities needed to turn ideas into reality. The placement year provides extended professional experience that puts your learning into practice in real organisational contexts.

The typical entry tariff is 120 UCAS points.

Graduates from business management, entrepreneurship, and innovation programmes move into a wide range of roles. Starting their own businesses is one path; others join innovative companies, social enterprises, or organisations where entrepreneurial thinking is valued. Graduate schemes in consulting, technology, and financial services recruit from this discipline, as do roles in business development, product management, and innovation strategy.

The combination of commercial understanding and entrepreneurial orientation is also well suited to international development organisations and impact-driven businesses. Postgraduate study in entrepreneurship, business administration, or innovation management provides further development options.