University of Gloucestershire Courses & Fees

Become a well-rounded professional understanding both the operations of a business and the finances behind it with this flexible course. You can put your skills to the test and enter the CIMA Global Business Challenge, designed to foster the young business leaders of the future. Create and pitch your business case to a high profile audience with support from an expert business mentor.

You’ll work from our state-of-the-art Oxstalls Campus in Gloucester. The 18 million development is home to our Business, Marketing, Human Resource Management, Law and Accounting and Finance courses.

You’ll focus on all aspects of accounting from financial markets and institutions to the global business environment; meeting the expectations of global accountancy bodies, leading to maximum exemptions from professional exams including ICEAW, ACCA, CIMA and AIA when you graduate.

You’ll have access to real-world business experiences and challenges. Simulations with companies within the accounting sector are embedded in your degree, underpinning your learning with real-world application. You’ll use live financial data in our Thomson Reuters Trading room and gain insight into industry with specialist guest lecturers.

Working from a new, state-of-the-art centre at our Oxstalls campus in Gloucester. The ’18 million development is home to our Business, Marketing, Human Resource Management, Law and Accounting and Finance courses.

People are the most important asset of any business. The effective management of Human Resources is key to an organisation’s success. Core Human Resource Management (HRM) functions, which include hiring, training and developing employees, are a component of all organisations. People are managed by line managers, and HRM specialists support and guide that management.

In your first year, you will be equipped with the knowledge, skills, and behaviours to manage and lead in a variety of organisational settings. You will be introduced to theories of management approaches and leadership styles designed to promote a culture of mutual trust, respect, and support within the workplace.  In the second year, you will study the theoretical foundations of HRM, balanced with the practical application of a variety of topics including the ‘Employment Life Cycle’ (e.g. how to attract suitable candidates through to options for career development). Successful completion of all three HRM-specific modules allows students to join the prestigious professional body for HRM in the UK, the Chartered Institute of Personnel Development (CIPD), as an Associate Member (this is an entry level job requirement for HR roles). You will also benefit from studying alongside other professional students who are currently working in HR roles which will give you invaluable insights into a career as an HR manager.  In your final year you will develop further understanding of strategic HRM and gain a Level 5 qualification in managing equality, diversity, and inclusion from the Chartered Management Institute (of benefit for a general management or a specialist HR career).

Become a manager and leader equipped with the skills and commercial insight to make a real difference in the ever-changing world of business.

Accredited by the Chartered Management Institute (CMI), all our Business and Management degrees ensure you develop essential skills, knowledge and experience while completing a Level 5 Diploma in Leadership and Management as part of your studies. This means potential employers will be confident that you are ‘career ready’ to do anything from working for a multinational corporation to starting and running your own business.

Business specialist stream, reflects current developments in global business environments, with a focus upon business technology, cyber security, and the digital marketing environment. It has been designed to enable you to appreciate the multifaceted nature of digital business, apply concepts and frameworks to case studies that relate to current business practice (including infrastructure, context, and strategy).

Through live guest speaker sessions, industry involvement and professional presentations the Digital Business Stream will help you understand the key issues that modern day business practitioners need to grapple with. The content of what you will study has been designed with local, national, and global organisation inputs, and will contain the following key operational and conceptual elements: cyber security, blockchain design, cryptography, digital business strategy, B2B, B2C, traditional e-commerce philosophies, evaluate chain integration, web 4.0, industry 4.0, online communities, SEO, HTML (5) developments and digital marketing.

If you have ambitions for starting and running your own business with the support of our ‘start-up’ specialists, then the Business and Management (Entrepreneurship and Innovation) specialist course is for you.

To start and grow your own successful business, it is important to gain a universal understanding of business and management functions and develop a range of transferable skills. Traditional approaches to business are being disrupted by rapidly changing factors such as emerging technologies, climate change and socio-political shifts in consumer preferences. You need to be able to think creatively and be committed to succeeding even if your initial ideas for start-ups fail.

Many businesses value employees with knowledge and understanding of the legal system, commercial and employability law alongside the other elements of a business and management degree.

The law stream of Business and Management provides an in-depth insight into some of the legal issues applicable to business and management.  By completing the law stream, you will be able to identify where potential legal issues and liabilities may arise, as well as understanding how the relevant legislation applies in different factual contexts.  A broad understanding of different legal areas will be established at Level 4, including Contract Law, tortious liabilities, intellectual property rights and business formation.  Students will then complete particularly relevant legal modules, such as: commercial law, including the sale of goods and consumer protection; company law, considering the legal formation of companies as well as the rights and obligations on directors and shareholders; and employment law, focusing on employment status and contracts, equality in the workplace and both lawful and unlawful termination of employment contracts.  As part of the course, students can also gain a Level 5 qualification in managing equality, diversity, and inclusion from the Chartered Management Institute.

You’ll learn to motivate people in the workplace and how to influence customers to purchase products and services.

You’ll have access to real-world business experiences and challenges with work placement opportunities to give you confidence to put your learning into practice and gain essential contacts. Students have worked for companies such as Warner Bros, BMW and British Heart Foundation. You’ll shadow an entrepreneur, work with a corporate firm and gain experience as a shadow consultant at the Growth Hub, our business centre at Oxstalls Campus.

Focus your degree on business or marketing, or both. If you choose business, you’ll learn about managing people, projects and resources, finance and HR. If you choose marketing, you’ll learn how to connect brands and customers.

Top up your HND or diploma into a full BA honours in one year and progress your career. You’ll learn about building and sustaining strategy as well as completing your own investigative study, you’ll develop specialist business management skills in line with your career goals. Subjects include strategic marketing, new business enterprise and globally responsible leadership.

The University of Gloucestershire School of Business is based at our state-of-the-art Oxstalls campus in Gloucester. The £18 million development is home to our Business, Marketing, Human Resource Management, Law and Accounting and Finance courses.

Construction is a thriving global profession, and a Construction Project Manager (CPM) plays the central role carefully managing experts from a range of professions and trades, liaises with clients, and end users to make sure all stages of the construction project progress smoothly and complete to the expected standard, on time and to the intended budget, whether a commercial new build, retail development, residential high-rise, restoration, renovation or infrastructure project.

Recurring themes throughout our course include, lean thinking and lean construction, passive sustainability, project administration, contract practice, leadership skills and managing people, risk management, health and safety and digital construction technology including Building Information Modelling (BIM).

Prepare to join the largest and fastest-growing media industry in the world, on a course that’s built on employability.

It’s designed in conjunction with experts at Google, our industry-facing curriculum means you’ll be learning and practising the skills you’ll need to succeed from day one – including pitching to major international clients such as HyperX and Unilever from your first semester onwards.

The course provides you with a core set of established, fundamental skills before building on that with emergent technologies and platforms to give you a competitive employment advantage.

Become a business leader in the global market. You’ll study business on an international scale, covering areas such as how to manage operations globally and cultural issues in management, perfectly preparing you for an international career.

Develop skills in managing people, projects, finance, HR, marketing and logistics across different cultures and environments. Understand the global economy and explore global sustainability issues and ethics.

This degree offers you the tools and experience in, and out, of the classroom to develop impactful marketing plans and campaigns. In addition, the course is underpinned by a deep understanding of professional practice and academic concepts.

You will draw on the expertise of lecturers with extensive professional credentials and research experience and be inspired by industry guest speakers, including those who graduated from the university. Many modules have assignments based on live briefs from national and international brands including BT, Harley Davidson, SHS Drinks, SLG Brands, and more.

Outside of the classroom, you have opportunities to be involved in student-led Marketing Society and a Business School initiative called 360, which offers students the ability to consult on marketing problems and opportunities for small and medium enterprises (SMEs).

As channels for information evolve, consumers’ interests change, and the competitive landscape grows more complex, the ability to communicate with an audience and persuade consumers to purchase a product, support a cause, or simply change their behaviour is an ever-present challenge.

This degree offers you the tools and experience in, and out, of the classroom to develop your passions for creativity and move into a professional role. You will draw on the expertise of lecturers with extensive professional credentials and research experience and be inspired by industry guest speakers, including those who graduated from the university. The course is underpinned by a deep understanding of professional practice and academic concepts.

Gaining a greater understanding of consumers is fundamental to marketing and helps develop better products and marketing campaigns that win hearts and minds.

This degree offers you the tools and experience in, and out, of the classroom to develop your passions for creativity and move into a professional role.  You will draw on the expertise of lecturers with extensive professional credentials and research experience and be inspired by industry guest speakers, including those who graduated from the University. The course is underpinned by a deep understanding of professional practice and academic concepts.

BA Marketing Hons (Digital Innovation) provides you with the technical skills and consumer insight to develop digital marketing campaigns that gets noticed and has an impact. You’ll learn the latest in social media marketing to digital out-of-home and everything in between.

This degree offers you the tools and experience in, and out, of the classroom to develop your passions for creativity and move into a professional role. You will draw on the expertise of lecturers with extensive professional credentials and research experience and be inspired by industry guest speakers, including those who graduated from the university. The course is underpinned by a deep understanding of professional practice and academic concepts.

Artificial intelligence is a growing sector – with the potential to change the way we live in the future to the same level as the introduction of electricity did. You’ll work with industry standard software such as Python, R, C#, C++, scikit-learn, tensorflow, pytorch, pandas, Unity, Visual Studio and Jupyter notebooks.

In this dynamic area you’ll gain skills in programming and maths – and an understanding of how these technologies can be successfully applied to solve real-world problems.

Work on live business cases to defend against cyber security risks. You’ll study the cyber environments of banks, high-security digital environments, ecommerce and social media platforms, graduating well-equipped to protect cyber environments across business sectors.

Our Cyber and Computing Security degree focuses on protecting against cybercrime before it happens. You’ll develop specialisms through module choices to match your career goals. Optional subjects include data analytics, information security and digital crime scene investigation. You’ll also examine ‘hot’ cybercrime topics. These include the latest security crimes in the news, as well as big data and Cloud systems which have both significantly increased commercial security risks.

Gain the knowledge and skills you need for a career in electrical and electronic engineering. You’ll become familiar with the latest developments in the industry and learn how to overcome the challenges they present.

By the time you graduate, you’ll be fully equipped to take on a leading role in the development of modern electrical and electronic systems. You’ll be able to research, design, build and market the next generation of products.

Many aspects of modern life are influenced by electrical and electronic engineering, for example energy, healthcare and communications. This course will cover a wide range of topics within the sector, including generation, transfer and conversion of electrical power, the transfer of information using radio waves and fibre optics, complex computer and entertainment systems, and electric or hybrid vehicles.

Gain the knowledge and skills you need to design embedded systems for various applications of control, diagnostics, monitoring and communication in the era of the Internet of Things, Industry 4.0 and 5.0. The course develops your understanding of key aspects of electrical and electronics engineering – and how they fit into the context of the full range of industrial sectors and rapidly-developing everyday applications.

You’ll address the challenges, problems and solutions involved in electrical and electronics engineering in modern industry including:

• engineering operation and management
• the optimal and intelligent electrical and electronic system design and development
  • pioneering approaches in this field and how to apply them to solve real-world and pioneer research-oriented problems.