Course description
**Plan, market, budget for and run business events of all kinds on this Business Management with Events degree. With your specialism in events management, you’ll become a highly employable event organiser in a fast-growing business sector.**
Join the events industry - worth £42.3 billion to the UK economy - and work with corporate events planners and agencies who are forecasting a big increase in employment opportunities.
You’ll learn how to organise, market, budget for and execute business events. With your specialism in events management (which also applies to tourism), you will become highly employable across many different types of organisations. This also includes digital events across a variety of platforms.
**Outstanding business links and valuable work placements**
We put employability at the forefront. By going beyond the classroom and working on projects such as This includes the Innovation for Global Growth event, a unique opportunity for you to test your employability skills with real organisations. You'll gain a greater understanding of the realities of work, and enhance your CV at the same time. Alongside this, there are work placements and you can apply to study abroad.
By the time you graduate you'll have all the knowledge and transferrable skills needed to thrive in today's work environment. So whether your ambition is to start your own business, or work for someone else, your skills and expertise will be relevant all over the world.
**A flexible degree**
You can tailor your studies to suit your interests and career plans.
This flexible degree is part of a larger portfolio of 12 courses covering business, accounting, law and marketing.
Abertay is widely regarded as THE place to come for high quality teaching. But don't take our word for it:
- **Scotland's Top Modern University - Student Satisfaction** (National Student Survey 2023).
- **UK University of the Year 2021 - Teaching Quality** (The Times/Sunday Times Good University Guide).
- **UK Top 10 - Student Satisfaction & Teaching** (Guardian Good University Guide 2021).
Subjects
Business studies, Management, Business administration, Economics, Supply chain management, Finance, Events managementEntry requirements
Scottish Higher, standard entry requirements: B,B,B,C
Scottish Advanced Higher, standard entry requirements: B,B,B
- Entry into Year 2 to include Business Management plus one other literate subject
Scottish HNC, standard entry requirements: Pass
- Entry into Year 2 with an HNC in one of the following:-
- Accounting - Graded Unit C
- Administration & IT - Graded Unit C
- Advertising & PR - Graded Unit C
- Business - Graded Unit C
- Business: Administration & IT - Graded Unit C
- Business: Management & Leadership - Graded Unit C
- Business: Marketing & Public Relations - Graded Unit C
- Events Management - Graded Unit C
- Fashion Business - Graded Unit C
- Hospitality Operations - Graded Unit C
- Human Resource Management - Graded Unit C
- Management & Leadership - Graded Unit C
- Marketing - Graded Unit C
- Marketing Communications - Graded Unit C
- Supply Chain Management - Graded Unit C
- Travel & Tourism - Graded Unit C
- Entry into Year 1 with an HNC in one of the following:-
- Music Business - Graded Unit C
- Social Science - Graded Unit C
- Next Gen Social Science - Graded Unit P
Scottish HND, standard entry requirements: Pass
- Entry into Year 3 with an HND in one of the following:-
- Business - Graded Unit C
- Business: Administration & IT - Graded Unit C
- Business: Management & Leadership - Graded Unit C
- Business: Marketing & Public Relations - Graded Unit C
- Events Management - Graded Unit C
- Supply Chain Management - Graded Unit C
- Entry into Year 2 with an HND in one of the following:-
- Accounting - Graded Units CC
- Administration & IT - Graded Units CC
- Advertising & PR - Graded Unit C
- Hospitality Management - Graded Unit C
- Hospitality Operations - Graded Unit C
- Human Resource Management - Graded Unit C
- Marketing - Graded Unit C
- Music Business - Graded Unit C
- Retail Management - Graded Unit C
- Travel & Tourism - Graded Unit C
- Entry into Year 1 with an HND in one of the following:-
- Social Science - Graded Unit C
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Course options
Course Type: Full-time
Details
Venue details
Abertay Campus
Bell Street
Dundee
Course provider
Abertay University
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