Undergraduate Programmes in the Business School

Dr Sarah Cooper (Director of Undergraduate Programmes)

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Why study in the Business School at the University of Edinburgh?

Excellent university and vibrant Business School

Challenging, varied, flexible & interesting degree programmes

Great university and city in which to be a student

Preparation for career in organisations and management

Circa 200 Business students join as undergraduates

each September

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Choice of degrees

Business Studies

Business Studies and

• Accounting, Economics

• French, German, Spanish, Italian (& other languages)

• Geography, Psychology

• Law, Economic History

International Business

International Business with a Language

Accounting and Finance

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Edinburgh’s degree model

2 + 2 structureTwo Year Foundation

Two Year Honours

1st Year: A taste of the subject‘Core’ subjects studied

FlexibilityYou choose

– Build your own degree within programme

– but also get assistance in choices

Also may take some outside subject(s)

And there is also the ‘year abroad’ (Year 3)

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Sample course structure: Business Studies

First and Second Years:

1st Year Business Studies 1, Accounting and outside course

2nd Year Business Research Methods I, Marketing, Organisation Studies, Principles of Finance, more BS or other course(s)

Third and Fourth Years:

3rd Year Business Research Methods II, Strategic Management, Investment & Securities Markets, Financial Services

Marketing, International Employment Relations, Entrepreneurship

4th Year Dissertation, Carbon Management, Advertising, Business Ethics, Corporate Finance

(3rd and 4th year: choose from 45 courses)

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Opportunities to study abroad

Third Year:

Exchange partner institutions in nineteen countries 14 ERASMUS partners, including in France, Germany, Spain

and Turkey 24 other International partners, including in N. America, Hong

Kong, China, Japan, Korea and Australia

3rd year abroad is compulsory for International Business and Business + Language degrees

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European:

International: International:

Wirtschaftsuniversiteit Wien (Vienna)

Katholieke Universiteit Leuven

University of Economics (Prague)

Copenhagen Business School

HEC (jouy-en-josas) Université de Paris IX

(Dauphine) Mannheim University Universita Commercial

L. Bocconi (Milan) ESADE (Barcelona) Universidad Pontificia

Comillas de Madrid IFI – Group ESC

Rouen IEP Sciences Po

(Paris) Navarra University Istanbul University

University of Alberta (Edmonton)

McGill University (Montreal)

Queen's University (Kingston)

Carleton University (Ontario)

University of Toronto University of Hong

Kong University of Texas at

Austin Emory University

(Atlanta) Chulalongkorn

University, Bangkok, Thailand

State University of New York (Binghamton)

Babson College, Massachusetts

University of Miami (South Florida)

University of Richmond University of Melbourne

University of Queensland University of Sydney Keio University (Tokyo)

(this exchange is for IB with Japanese students only)

Korea University (Seoul) Ohio State University (Fisher

College of Business) Nanyang Business School

(Singapore) University of British Columbia

(Okanagan Campus) Peking University (Beijing)

(this exchange is for IB with Chinese students only)

The University of Nottingham Ningbo (China) (this exchange is for IB with Chinese students only)

National Taiwan University, Taipei (this exchange is for IB with Chinese students only)

Exchange Schools

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Approach to teaching

FunctionalHuman Resource Management, Accounting Systems

TheoreticalOrganisational Behaviour, Managerial Accounting

Traditional vs newResearch-led focus to teaching

Focus on employability and employer engagement

All delivered through: lectures, tutorials, industry speakers, self-study

New for this year: Innovative Learning Week

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BS1 – academic skills, postersCforB – technical & study skills

CDP – career planning, presentation skills, corporate engagementBRM I – quantitative analysis skills

SM – groupwork, presentation skills, corporate engagementBRM II – research skills

Dissertations

Workshops

Workshops

Year 1

Year 2

Year 3

Year 4

Careers Service

Tools for life: What you’ll learn

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Student engagement

Students fully involved in the Business School and in their degrees

Mechanisms:Directors of Studies/Student Support Officers/Year Heads

Student Representatives for all classes

Staff-Student Liaison Committee

Student-led society~ Social~ Careers~ Mentoring

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Careers

Latest data on destinations of graduating students in business studies and international business (including joint degrees) and showed that:

78.6% were in employment

7.1% were undertaking further study/training

7.1% were not available (e.g. travelling/taking year out)

2% were doing voluntary work

5% were seeking employment

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Any questions?My email: Sarah.Cooper@ed.ac.uk

Thank you for listening