Course Overview

Organisations of all sizes in all sectors are increasingly seeking to employ people who can work in ways that are characteristically 'entrepreneurial'. Our degree offers you a broad understanding of Management combined with specialist knowledge of Entrepreneurship theory and practice.

Lancaster's Institute for Entrepreneurship and Enterprise Development (IEED) offers these degree schemes. IEED is actively engaged in the business community and works closely with many local and regional businesses offering a range of partnership activities and consultancy services, including marketing assistance, strategic thinking, entrepreneurial behaviour, innovation and growth. Every module of your degree draws on this in some way.

Throughout your course you will take a wide range of optional courses, covering areas such as Management, Accounting and Finance, Economics, Marketing and Management Science as well as compulsory specialist courses in entrepreneurship and innovation.

You'll begin your degree with first-year core modules including Entrepreneurship: Realities, Conceptions and Myths; An Introduction to Management; An introduction to Statistics, and Computing for Management. You can also choose another option from within the Management School. In the second year, you'll study Entrepreneurs and Entrepreneurship; Small Business and the SME Sector; Management and Consulting, and Franchising. In your final year, you'll complete courses in subjects such as Entrepreneurial Behaviour and Learning; New Venture Planning; Family Business; Innovation, and Social Contexts of Entrepreneurship.

The modules are brilliant they really push you. Im learning not just through books but it mirrors the learning you get in an organisation.

Career opportunities

We have extensive links with large and small employers and our graduates have been highly successful in finding good, well-paid jobs in various areas of management, sales and marketing.

Your degree will give you an understanding of entrepreneurship as an important part of management and you will also develop a range of analytical, problem-solving and communications skills. Recent graduates have made use of these abilities to gain employment in a variety of blue chip companies, such as IBM, Deloitte, The Co-operative, Unilever, BT, Enterprise and Accenture, as well as working for dynamic small businesses and setting up their own companies.

Your degree is also excellent preparation for postgraduate study of business at Masters level.