undergraduate programmes in the business school dr sarah cooper (director of undergraduate...
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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
