Business and Management

Business and management is a broad discipline that equips you to understand and contribute to the way organisations function, make decisions and create value. It draws on economics, sociology, psychology, quantitative analysis and strategy to examine how businesses are structured and led, how markets work, how financial performance is generated and measured, and how people and culture shape organisational outcomes. The subject is simultaneously practical and intellectually serious, requiring both critical thinking and the ability to apply ideas to real commercial and institutional problems.

At Royal Holloway, University of London the programme runs for three years full-time, taught by researchers with international reputations in management and business. You will engage with current thinking in management alongside the core disciplines of strategy, marketing, finance, operations and organisational behaviour, gaining both rigorous analytical foundations and the interpersonal and communication skills that effective management requires. The programme includes a sandwich year in professional practice and a year abroad, giving you an extended period of commercial experience and international exposure that makes you substantially more employment-ready at graduation.

Business and management graduates enter a wide range of careers across every sector of the economy. Management trainee schemes, finance, marketing, consulting, entrepreneurship, human resources, operations and public sector management are all common destinations. The broad analytical foundation the degree provides is also valued by employers in law, the civil service, NGOs and the growing number of organisations that need people who can think systematically about strategy and people at the same time.

Many graduates pursue postgraduate study in business, finance, marketing or management, including MBA programmes, particularly after gaining some professional experience.