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Business and Marketing Management top-up
BA (Hons)
Key facts
UCAS code
NN16
Start dates
January 2021 / September 2021 / January 2022 / September 2022
Location
Course length
Full time: 1 year
Part time: up to 3 years
Department
Overview
Our Business and Marketing Management top-up course prepares you for a range of careers in business and marketing. If you want to top up your existing qualifications to an Honours degree, this course is for you.
You will explore marketing within the wider context of business and management. You will also combine key elements of business study with more specialist marketing management study. This will prepare you for a wealth of careers in a wide range of organisations in the UK and abroad.
Our course also prepares you for postgraduate study and furthers your professional development.
How to apply
Entry requirements
Specific entry requirements
Successful completion of a course which is equivalent to the first two years of a UK honours degree (240 credits), for example an HND (with a merit profile from year 2 modules), Foundation degree (55%), or equivalent international Diploma, in Business and/or Management which includes a Marketing component.
Please also see the University's general entry requirements.
Terms and Conditions of Enrolment
When you accept our offer, you agree to the Terms and Conditions of Enrolment. You should therefore read those conditions before accepting the offer.
Credit transfer
Many of our courses consider applications for entry with credit for prior learning. Each application is individually assessed by our credit entry tutors.
If you would like more information about whether or not you may be eligible for the award of credit, for example from an HND, partly-completed degree or foundation degree, please contact our Admissions team.
We operate the European Credit Transfer System (ECTS). All undergraduate single modules are equivalent to 7.5 ECTS credits and double modules to 15 ECTS credits. More about ECTS credits.
Application process
Full time Home / EU applicants
Apply through UCASPart time Home / EU applicants
Apply direct to the UniversityInternational applicants
Apply direct to the UniversityFull time applicants can also apply through UCAS
Tuition fees
Questions about fees?
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Tuition fees
Please note tuition fees for Home students may increase in subsequent years both for new and continuing students in line with an inflationary amount determined by government. Tuition fees for International students may increase in subsequent years both for new and continuing students.
Oxford Brookes University intends to maintain its fees for new and returning Home students at the maximum permitted level.
Financial support and scholarships
Additional costs
Please be aware that some courses will involve some additional costs that are not covered by your fees. Specific additional costs for this course, if any, are detailed below.
Learning and assessment
Over the year you will take eight compulsory modules.
Strategic Marketing Management challenges you to apply business and marketing knowledge. You’ll engage in a complex, team-based strategic marketing simulation.
Our Professional Practice module helps you prepare for your career. You’ll research an industry and reflect on how they can deliver the skills employers are looking for in graduate recruits. This module also covers:
- CV writing
- interviewing
- assessment centre skills.

Study modules
Please note: As our courses are reviewed regularly as part of our quality assurance framework, the modules you can choose from may vary from that shown here. The structure of the course may also mean some modules are not available to you.
After you graduate
Career prospects
The appeal of Business and Marketing Management graduates is that they can fit into marketing roles or more general business roles. They have not only developed the functional knowledge, but also the strategic thinking and other transferable skills that equip them to develop into effective, confident, reflective managers. Business and Marketing Management students have gone on to graduate roles in all areas of marketing, including brand management, marketing communications, digital marketing, marketing research, and sales, working in a wide variety of organisations and marketing agencies, both large and small. Employers of Business and Marketing Management graduates include Sky, Microsoft, Aldi, Reed Business Information, and Citroën among many others. A number of graduates have also gone on to undertake Masters degrees in marketing or broader business subjects.
Free language courses
Free language courses are available to full-time undergraduate and postgraduate students on many of our courses, and can be taken as a credit on some courses.
Programme Changes: On rare occasions we may need to make changes to our course programmes after they have been published on the website.
For more information, please visit our Changes to programmes page.