BA (Hons) Business and Management (top-up)

Business Strategy and Decision Making in the Creative Industries: 30 credits
In this unit you will gain insights into identifying opportunities and anticipating challenges in planning and executing global strategy in the creative industries. The overarching goal is to foster an understanding of best practices within the field, equipping you to formulate business strategies, utilising advanced skills applicable to the evolving landscape of the creative industries. You will explore a transformative approach to decision-making, which provides a robust framework of effective and replicable solutions.

Data Analytics in the Creative Industries: 15 credits
This unit will equip you with the data analytics knowledge and skills required for working in the data-driven global creative industries. Working with existing or self-generated data sets, you will explore and develop a critical understanding of the fundamentals of data analytics and its use in the global creative industries, including the differences between descriptive and predictive
analytics; the ethical, social, legal, and economic considerations of data collection and analysis; and the statistical and data visualisation tools required to produce meaningful insights into the global creative industries.

Operations and Supply Chain Management in the Creative Industries: 15 credits
In this unit you will explore the basic concepts concerned with the production and creation of products (goods and/or services) by organisations from the global creative industries. As organisations produce a mixture of both products and services, managers at all levels within an organisation need to have an awareness of the often-complex processes involved in production, from manufacturing to delivery for customer use. The overall aim of this unit is for you to critically examine a range of operations and supply chain management strategies, systems and technologies, and to plan, design and develop suitable and effective operations and supply chain configurations for given scenarios in the global creative industries.

Degree Project: Creative and Cultural Industries: 60 credits
In this final unit, you will apply your knowledge, skills and experience gained through your previous learning and in this top-up course, to create a distinctive piece of work for your degree project. The purpose of your degree project is to successfully identify an opportunity within the global creative industries, which align with your career aspirations.

Year one (equivalent to year 3 of BA course)

• Independent study: 81.7%
• Scheduled teaching: 18.3%
• Maximum percentage of scheduled delivered online: 4.1%

Please note, these details are for 2026 entry and could be subject to change for other years of entry.

Our Business and Management degree course will enable you to pursue a range of careers including:

• Graduate Schemes
• Entrepreneur
• Product Buyer
• Junior Manager
• Production Team Lead
• Postgraduate Study

Your training on this course will prepare you for a wide range of postgraduate courses. We offer postgraduate opportunities in Business and Management and we will help you find the correct course for you and support you in your application should further study be for you.

Find out more about our postgraduate courses

BA (Hons) course (top-up)

The standard entry requirements* for this course are:

• 240 credits from a relevant degree (120 credits at level 4 and 120 credits at level 5), with a minimum of 55% overall
• Foundation Degree in a relevant subject
• Higher National Diploma in a relevant subject

And/or Accreditation of Prior Experiential Learning (APEL)

In recognition that you may already have a relevant professional qualification, or appropriate working experience in the relevant industries, APEL may be accepted for entry on to the course. This will be based on the partnership articulations and will be assessed on a case by case basis.

Other relevant and equivalent Level 3 UK and international qualifications are considered on an individual basis, and we encourage students from diverse educational backgrounds to apply.

Portfolio requirements

These courses don't require a portfolio but, if you're UK-based and you receive an offer, we'd still like to meet you at an Applicant Day. Further information will be provided once you have applied.

*We occasionally make offers which are lower than the standard entry criteria, to students who have faced difficulties that have affected their performance and who were expected to achieve higher results.

BA (Hons) course (top-up)

The entry requirements for these courses will depend on the country your qualifications are from, please check the equivalent qualifications for your country:

• Non-UK equivalent qualifications

Any additional entry requirements listed in the UK requirements section, e.g., subject requirements, work experience or professional qualifications, also apply to international applicants applying with equivalent qualifications.

Portfolio requirements

This courses does not require a portfolio. Further information will be provided once you have applied.

English language requirements

To study at UCA, you'll need to have a certain level of English language skill. And so, to make sure you meet the requirements of your course, we ask for evidence of your English language ability, please check the level of English language required:

• English language requirements