Management

Management is the discipline concerned with how organisations are led, coordinated, and developed to achieve their goals. It draws on economics, psychology, sociology, and quantitative analysis to understand how firms and other organisations function, how decisions are made and implemented, how people are motivated and coordinated, and how organisations adapt to changing environments. Effective management is one of the most consequential activities in any society, shaping how resources are allocated, how work is organised, and whether organisations of every kind, commercial, public sector, and charitable, are able to serve their purposes well.

At SOAS University of London, this three-year full-time BSc Management programme includes a foundation year, providing a supported entry route into the degree. SOAS's distinctive character as a university focused on Asia, Africa, and the Middle East gives the management programme a genuinely global and culturally diverse orientation that is unusual in management education. You will receive a strong grounding in the core disciplines of business and management, including strategy, marketing, finance, operations, organisational behaviour, and quantitative analysis, as the current description reflects.

The emphasis on data analysis, evaluation, and the self-motivation needed to be an effective manager in a changing world reflects a curriculum that is oriented towards developing graduates who can think analytically, adapt to complexity, and function effectively across different organisational and cultural contexts.

SOAS's location in London and its international student community create an environment in which the global dimensions of management are experienced as well as studied, and the university's connections with organisations focused on international development, Asia and Africa-focused business, and cultural institutions provide distinctive contexts for engagement with management in practice.

Graduates from management programmes pursue careers across a very wide range of sectors and organisations, including business management, consultancy, finance, marketing, human resources, entrepreneurship, and the public and third sectors. Postgraduate study in management, business, or a specialist management discipline supports those seeking further expertise.