Huddersfield Business School
Business Administration and Management (Top-up) BA(Hons)
Start Dates
20 September 2027, 10 January 2028
Duration
Up to 10 months full-time
Overview
Why choose Huddersfield for this course?
- Build on your business knowledge and explore leadership, strategy and change in today’s fast-moving world.
- Get recognised by employers. Study a course shaped by industry and earn a CMI Level 5 Certificate in Management and Leadership – with no extra exams.
- Choose optional modules that match your interests – from climate change to small business marketing.
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If you have already studied business and want to progress to a full honours degree, this course helps you build the skills and confidence to take the next step. At Huddersfield, you will not just study management, you will apply it. You will explore how organisations operate, how leaders make decisions and how businesses respond to change in a fast moving world.
You will learn from experienced academics and industry professionals who bring real insight into the classroom. Learning is practical and focused on developing your management skills through projects, case studies and applied activities. Management studies here was ranked in the top quart in England in 2025 for organisation and management (National Student Survey 2025).*
You will also benefit from our close relationship with the Chartered Management Institute (CMI), giving you the chance to achieve a CMI Level 5 Certificate in Management and Leadership without additional study. This adds professional recognition to your degree and supports your career development.
By graduation, you will have the knowledge, experience and confidence to progress into roles in business development, management, administration or leadership, or continue your studies at postgraduate level.
- (Top quart in England £100m+ – All modes, all levels, taught, using England £100m+, limited to quartile = 1 and more than 10 institutions, shows rank within quartile also)
Career opportunities after the course *
Business Development Managers
Account Managers
Office Administrators
Business Development Executive
Business Analysts
*Lightcast
Entry Requirements
Entry requirements for this course are normally one of the following:
- Higher National Diploma or equivalent (eg two year advanced diploma level or comparable qualifications).
- Foundation degree or 120 ECTS.
If your first language is not English, you will need to meet the minimum requirements of an English Language qualification. The minimum for IELTS is 6.0 overall with no element lower than 5.5, or equivalent. Read more about the University’s entry requirements for students outside of the UK on our International Entry Requirements page.
Course Details
Choose three from a list which may include:
For more information on when and how we update our modules please see the ‘Legal Information’ section below.
Teaching and Assessment
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Your Career
Previous graduates from this subject area have gone on to roles such as Digital Marketing & Media Assistant, Front Line Manager, HR Recruiter, Customer Service Associate, Account Executive and Operations Manager in organisations including Yorkshire Air Ambulance, Morrisons, ASSIST Sheffield, HSBS, Softcat Limited, Deltec International Courier Ltd and Hoardtek.
89% of undergraduate graduates from the School of Business, Education and Law in work or further study within fifteen months of graduating
* HESA Graduate Outcomes 22/23, UK domiciled graduates, other activities excluded.
Studying a management degree gave me the chance to explore a variety of subjects and understand all aspects of business. This helped me discover my passion for people management. I believe a good manager should have a broad understanding to share skills and help a business grow.
- Amy Templeman
Studied Business Management and Leadership (BA)Hons. Currently works as Senior Business Intelligence Developer at SharkNinja
Our graduates work at some of the world's biggest companies.
Fees and Finance
This information is for Home students applying to study at the University of Huddersfield in the academic year 2027/28.
Modules credits can range from 15 to 60, dependent on the content of the module. Read more about total credits required for a range of degrees, to allow you to calculate the potential total cost.
Please note that tuition fees for subsequent years may rise in line with inflation (RPI-X) and/or Government policy.
From January 2027 the UK government is launching a new student funding system for people starting university education. Read more about the Lifelong Learning Entitlement (LLE).
For detailed information please visit https://www.hud.ac.uk/study/fees/
This is the tuition fee for 2026/27 entry. Tuition fees for 2027/28 will be published once the information becomes available.
This information is for international students applying to study at the University of Huddersfield in the academic year 2026/27.
Please note that tuition fees for subsequent years may rise in line with inflation (RPI-X) and/or Government policy.
For detailed information please visit https://www.hud.ac.uk/international/fees-and-funding/
Scholarships and Bursaries
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Tuition Fee Loans
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What’s included in your fee?
We want you to understand exactly what your fees will cover and what additional costs you may need to budget for when you decide to become a student with us.
If you have any questions about Fees and Finance, please email the Student Finance Team.
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Huddersfield Business School Exterior
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At the University of Huddersfield, you’ll find support networks and services to help you get ahead in your studies and social life. Whether you study at undergraduate or postgraduate level, you’ll soon discover that you’re never far away from our dedicated staff and resources to help you to navigate through your personal student journey.
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Our researchers carry out world-leading work that makes a real difference to people’s lives. Staff within the Huddersfield Business School may teach you on this course.
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Legal information
When you enrol as a student of the University, your study and time with us will be governed by our terms and conditions, Handbook of Regulations and associated policies. It is important that you familiarise yourself with these as you will be asked to agree to them when you join us as a student. You will find a guide to the key terms here, along with the Student Protection Plan.
Although we always try and ensure we deliver our courses as described, sometimes we may have to make changes for the following reasons:
Changes to a course you have applied for but are not yet enrolled on
If we propose to make a major change to a course that you are holding an offer for, then we will tell you as soon as possible so that you can decide whether to withdraw your application prior to enrolment. We may occasionally have to withdraw a course you have applied for or combine your programme with another programme if we consider this reasonably necessary to ensure a good student experience, for example if there are not enough applicants. Where this is the case we will notify you as soon as reasonably possible and if you are unhappy with the change we will discuss with you other suitable courses we can transfer your application to. If you do not wish to transfer to another course with us, you may cancel your application and we will refund you any deposits or fees you have paid to us.
Changes to your course after you enrol as a student
Changes to option modules
Where your course allows you to choose modules from a range of options, we will review these each year and change them to reflect the expertise of our staff, current trends in research and as a result of student feedback or demand for certain modules. We will always ensure that you have an equivalent range of options to that advertised for the course. We will let you know in good time the options available for you to choose for the following year.
Major changes
We will only make major changes to non-optional modules on a course if it is necessary for us to do so and provided such changes are reasonable. A major change is a change that substantially changes the outcomes, or a significant part of your course, such as the nature of the award or a substantial change to module content, teaching days (part time provision), type of delivery or assessment of the core curriculum. For example, it may be necessary to make a major change to reflect changes in the law or the requirements of the University’s regulators or a commissioning or accrediting body. We may also make changes to improve the course in response to student, examiners’ or other course evaluators’ feedback or to ensure you are being taught current best practice. Major changes may also be necessary because of circumstances outside our reasonable control, such as a key member of staff being unable to teach due to illness, where they have a particular specialism that can’t be adequately covered by other members of staff; or due to pandemics, other disasters (such as fire, flood or war) or changes made by the government.
Major changes would usually be made with effect from the next academic year, but may happen sooner in an emergency. We will notify you as soon as possible should we need to make a major change and will consult with affected groups of students and any changes would only be made in accordance with our regulations. If you reasonably believe that the proposed change will cause you detriment or hardship we will, if appropriate, work with you to try to reduce the adverse effect on you or find an appropriate solution. Where an appropriate solution cannot be found and you let us know before the change takes effect you can cancel your registration and withdraw from the University without liability to the University for any additional tuition fees. We will provide reasonable support to assist you with transferring to another university if you wish to do so and you may be eligible for an exit award depending on how far through your course you are.
In exceptional circumstances, we may, for reasons outside of our control, be forced to discontinue or suspend your course. Where this is the case, a formal exit strategy will be followed in accordance with the student protection plan.
The Office for Students (OfS) is the principal regulator for the University.