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Management with Foundation Year BSc (N20A)

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Explore our Management with Foundation Year degree at Warwick

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N20A (4 year)
N20J (5 year)

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Bachelor of Science (BSc)

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4 years full-time, 5 years full-time with placement year

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26 September 2022

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Warwick Business School

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University of Warwick

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Studying Management with Foundation Year (BSc) encourages a wide range of relevant, highly transferable and sought-after skills.

These help to prepare you for the challenges you will face after university; everything from a career in a multinational corporation to starting and running your own business.

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This course is designed to provide you with access to our main Management or Management with Placement Year degree’s if challenging circumstances mean that you have not been able to meet the standard entry requirements.

We are looking for applicants who have the drive and motivation, and ultimately want to progress to a professionally-orientated qualification that is consistently ranked highly in major UK league tables. We will help you to develop valuable skills such as teamwork, presenting, time management, problem solving, decision making, and also build your confidence.

During the Foundation Year you will be part of a small community working closely together on group projects. The course also involves working with external organisations to give you a better understanding of how business works. You will complete a project in the third term working with an organisation to identify an issue or challenge.

If you successfully complete the Foundation Year, you will automatically join our direct entry students following the course structure for Management or Management with Placement Year. If you choose to study the 5-year course with the integrated placement year you will work in the UK or overseas. Previous students have completed placements with companies including Accenture, Adidas, EY, Gymshark, HSBC, L’Oréal, Toyota, Microsoft and The Walt Disney Company.

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Our Foundation Year prepares you for degree-level study at WBS and gives students the opportunity to build their knowledge about business, improve some key skills we have found to be important to success during the undergraduate degree, and spend a year getting used to the university environment.

The modules you will take will help build your maths and statistics skills, your organisational problem-solving skills, such as creativity, leadership and teamwork, and give you a chance to work on academic practices like research, critical thinking, and university level writing. They will also develop your knowledge on general areas of business, like marketing, operations management, accounting and finance, and help you conduct research to solve real organisational problems.

If you successfully complete the Foundation Year you will automatically progress to BSc Management and join our direct entry students. If you choose to study BSc Management (with Foundation Year) with Placement Year you will complete your work placement within your fourth year and return to WBS for your final year of studies.

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You will learn in a variety of ways including:

Lectures
Seminars
Workshops
Online learning

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You will work mainly in seminar-style classes with around 25 students for at least 12 hours per week, which will equip you with the skills, knowledge and depth of understanding that you will need to continue learning independently between sessions. On progressing to Year One lectures become larger with up to 500 students in a class and around 25 in seminars. Some electives are much smaller.

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This varies by year but you will have approximately 12 to 15 hours per week of:

Class time
Online activities such as quizzes and group work
Student support and feedback hours

During your feedback hours, you can meet the Module Leader or seminar tutors to ask questions.

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You will be assessed through a combination of examinations and assessments including:

Individual assignments
Projects
Case study analysis
Online quizzes
Groupwork
Presentations.

The final degree classification is determined by your second and final year marks and each contributes 50%.

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Study abroad

Study abroad is guaranteed for students on BSc International Management who meet the Year One requirements. As part of our BSc Management with Placement Year students can apply for a study placement (rather than working). Studying abroad as part of this course is undertaken in English and opportunities are available with a wide range of partners in countries such as Canada, Singapore, France, and Japan.

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Additional requirements: Widening Participation Status

Please note that this course is only available to applicants eligible for Home Fee Status. Find out more about Fee Status.

You must meet one of the Widening Participation criteria below:

Having spent time in local-authority care
Be a refugee or asylum seeker having either limited leave to remain or are under ‘humanitarian protection’ or have been granted refugee status with indefinite leave to remain
Living in a low participation neighbourhood (POLAR 4, quintile 1) or an area which has a high level of deprivation (Index of Multiple Deprivation, 0-20%).
Attending a school where average performance of students achieving 5 A*-C GCSE including English and Mathematics was below the national average and/or attending a school/college with below the national average performance at KS5 and attending a school or college with above national average entitlement/eligibility to Free School Meals.

Please use our contextual indicator checker to check whether you meet criteria 3 or 4 from the above list. Please note that we do not make contextual offers for the Foundation Course. If you are experiencing (or have experienced) other disadvantaging circumstances you may express this in an AWARDS form This must be sent within two weeks of application (excluding holidays).

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A level typical offer

You will need to complete and pass three full courses, excluding General Studies and Critical Thinking.

A level additional information

You will also need grade B or 6 in GCSE English Language, B or 6 in GCSE Mathematics and C or 4 in five other GCSE subjects. Applicants with grade C or 4 in GCSE English Language and grade B or 6 in GCSE English Literature will also be considered.

Please also see our additional requirements above.

General GCSE requirements

Unless specified differently above, you will also need a minimum of GCSE grade 4 or C (or an equivalent qualification) in English Language and either Mathematics or a Science subject. Find out more about our entry requirements and the qualifications we accept. We advise that you also check the English Language requirements for your course which may specify a higher GCSE English requirement. Please find the information about this below.

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IB typical offer

You will need to complete three subjects at Higher Level and three subjects at Standard Level.

IB additional information

Please also see our additional requirements above.

General GCSE requirements

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Complete and pass a BTEC Level 3 Extended Diploma.

Please also see our additional requirements above.

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You will also need to meet our English Language requirements.

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We welcome applications from students with other internationally recognised qualifications. [Find out more about international entry requirements. https://warwick.ac.uk/study/international/admissions/entry-requirements]

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Short-listed applicants will normally be invited to attend a selection day, including an informal interview, at Warwick to assess their academic potential and commitment to further study.

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Year One: Foundation Year

Term One

Academic Practice
Foundations of Business
Business Statistics
Intermediate Mathematics

Term Two

Accounting and Finance
Business Consulting
Management of Global Risks
Problem Solving in Organisations

Term Three

Business Consulting
Problem Solving in Organisations

Year Two (same as BSc Management Year One)

CORE: Foundations, Skills and Debates
Accounting for Business
Foundations of Financial Management
Economics for Business
Management, Organisations and Society
Principles of Marketing
Foundations of Data Analysis for Management
Business Analytics, or Digital Ventures or Management of Global Risks, or a language

Year Three

CORE: Global Environment of Business
CORE: Entrepreneurial Mindset
Operations Management

Final Year

CORE: Critical Issues in Management

Are you considering studying BSc Management with Placement Year?

If you choose to study BSc Management with Placement Year, your third year will be when you complete your work placement and then you will study the modules listed within Year Three within your final year (Year Four) when you return to WBS.

Explore WBS modules in more detail.

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Marketing

Marketing Research
Global Issues in Marketing
Marketing Strategy
Consumer Behaviour

Finance

Fundamentals of Finance
Investment Management
Banks and Financial Systems
Mergers and Acquisitions

Entrepreneurship

Entrepreneurial Finance and Venture Capital
Cognition and Decision Making
Corporate Entrepreneurship
Law for Entrepreneurs

Digital Business

Digital Business in Modern Organisations
Enterprise Information Systems
Artificial Intelligence for Business

Other electives

Issues in Management Accounting
Auditing, Governance and Accountability
Behavioural Economics
Supply Chain Management
Project Management
Managing Human Resources
Images of Creativity
Corporate Strategy
Fundamentals of Business Law
Equality and Diversity

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