Business Management with Marketing With Foundation Year

Business management and marketing together form one of the most versatile combinations available at degree level. Business management provides the analytical and organisational frameworks needed to understand how organisations operate, make decisions, and create value. Marketing brings a specific focus on how businesses understand customers, build brands, and communicate effectively in competitive markets.

The two disciplines reinforce each other: good marketing thinking depends on commercial awareness, and effective business leadership increasingly requires an understanding of how audiences are reached and persuaded.

At the University of Surrey this four-year full-time programme incorporates a foundation year, allowing you to build the academic and professional skills needed to succeed in the main degree before you begin it in earnest. Surrey has integrated AI into its courses as a deliberate response to how workplaces are changing, so you will develop digital skills and the confidence to work alongside intelligent tools, which is increasingly what employers expect of new graduates. The curriculum covers the core areas of business operations, strategic management, finance, and organisational behaviour alongside marketing principles, consumer behaviour, digital marketing, and brand strategy.

The typical entry tariff of 120 points gives a sense of the standard expected.

You will develop a practical and analytical mindset, learning to think clearly about business problems, to work effectively in teams, and to communicate your ideas persuasively in a range of formats and settings.

Graduates of business management with marketing pursue careers in brand management, digital marketing, advertising, product management, business development, market research, and general management. Many also go into consultancy, the public sector, or entrepreneurship. Postgraduate study in business, marketing, or MBA programmes is a natural next step for those wanting to specialise or move into more senior roles.