Our business courses are focussed on preparing you for the exciting, challenging world of business, where the pressures – and the rewards – can be enormous. The broad skills we develop ensure you are able to adapt to different business management environments, and effectively plan for your organisation's future.
By teaching you to understand the complexities of business, our courses prepare you for a successful career in a wide range of business functions in industries across the world: from finance and marketing, to HR, business strategy and economics. Success in each area requires a solid knowledge of how businesses work.
To ensure a business or public sector organisation flourishes, a huge range of different things must work well together. A broad understanding of the different functions of business is therefore crucial to responding to challenges and opportunities posed by globalisation, changing labour markets, and the shifts in global economics.
By working closely with your business course lecturers, your business skills will be quickly developed through a wide range of teaching methods and different forms of assessment. Whether you want to run your own business or a multinational, this learning experience is the perfect start.
Graduates from the business courses at Abertay can go into any area of business, including the competitive graduate training programmes that fast-track professionals to the top of their industry.
Other options include management positions in important public sector organisations like the NHS, or specialist posts within organisations, such as marketing, human resources management, finance, accounting, business development or business strategy.
Students are offered the opportunity to participate in the European Business Masters Cup in year 2 and 3 and the IBM Universities Business Challenge in year 4. Abertay students have had enormous success in these business simulations in recent years, which show future employers real business skills.
The business courses on offer at Abertay are:
BA (Hons) Business Administration
BA (Hons) Business Studies
BA (Hons) Finance & Business
MBA Master of Business Administration (Full time, Part time & Flexible study)
MSc/PGDip Energy Industry Economics*
MSc/PGDip Energy Industry Management*
MSc/PGDip Finance
MSc/PGDip Oil and Gas Finance
MSc/PGDip Oil and Gas Management*
PGDip Business Administration
