Huddersfield University Business School (HUBS) is a thriving centre of student excellence based upon four departments specialising in Marketing and Management, Business Studies, Law and Accountancy.

At HUBS we have a long tradition of providing study options to cater for a wide range of professional and vocational needs. We can offer course options running from certificate level and professional courses to degree and master’s level.

Our course portfolio provides flexible study options to suit a wide range of qualification levels and experience enabling you to develop new areas of knowledge and skill and develop your career options.

At HUBS, we understand the investment you’re making. We’ll repay that investment with practical, creative, fulfilling courses and teaching and learning support to ensure you get to where you want to be in your career. Our courses are designed to be practical, creative, fulfilling and focused on getting you to your chosen destination.

Many of our full-time degree courses include the option of a sandwich year where you will spend a year on work placement. Our dedicated Business Placement Unit will help you to secure a practical, relevant and rewarding year in the workplace. The combination of a vocationally orientated course and opportunities for work experience places HUBS graduates in a good position in the job market. Students get the opportunity to gain first-hand experience in their chosen career field and develop the skills to make the transition from study to full-time employment so much easier.

For other courses, particularly in the postgraduate areas of management and entrepreneurship, your existing work and business experience is a key factor and can be part of an exchange of ideas during study sessions. Student assessment can take a variety of forms including project work, research based dissertations, group work – all designed to offer our students the opportunity to contribute and share with fellow students their own individual work-based experience and knowledge.

A warm welcome for international students

The University of Huddersfield warmly welcomes students from over 80 countries each year and has been the academic home to many international students over the last 50 years. Their presence has enriched campus life and helped to create the friendly cosmopolitan atmosphere on which so many of our visitors comment.

At the Business School students will find a wide diversity of students to meet and work with. This opportunity to exchange ideas with people of different nationalities and backgrounds enhances the learning experience for all students. In addition the Business School has strong links with partner institutions in areas such as Singapore, Greece, Kuwait and Jordan.

Dedicated to teaching and learning quality

By choosing the University of Huddersfield you can be guaranteed of a continuing dedication to quality and high standards in our teaching and learning.

The University has achieved the highest scores available in a Government quality review in 2004. The UK’s Quality Assurance Agency, reviewed five academic areas – including Business Studies and Accountancy– as a measure of the overall quality of the University.

The report praises good practice in student induction and support, supervision and personal tutorial arrangements and the continual focus on student needs.

Huddersfield also tops the league for teaching quality over all the 'new universities' in the North of England according to league tables published by the Times Higher Education Supplement (2005). For the whole of the UK Huddersfield gains an impressive second place for quality teaching among the post-1992 universities.

Huddersfield also scored higher for student satisfaction than any other university in West and South Yorkshire in the first ever HEFCE (Higher Education Funding Council for England) ‘National Student Survey’.

More than 80% of our scores were at or above the national average, with good scores for the institutions learning resources and computing and library support.

Whatever your aspirations, studying a part-time course at the Huddersfield University Business School can be a practical, fulfilling and positive step towards achieving your personal and career goals.

Our undergraduate degree programmes include:

Accountancy and Finance
Accountancy with Information Systems
Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA)
Advertising and Marketing Communications
Business with Design
Business Administration and Management (1 year 'Top Up')
Business Information Management
Business with Financial Services
Business Management
Business and Media
Business Studies
Business Studies with Environmental Management
Business and Psychology
E-Business
Entrepreneurship and Business
European Business (1 year ‘top up’)
Global marketing (1 year ‘top up’)
International Business
International Marketing
Human Resource Management
Law and Accountancy
Law/Bus Law/European Law LLB
Management and Accountancy
Marketing
Marketing Management
Marketing with Innovation
Retailing
Sports Promotion and Marketing

Our postgraduate programmes include:

MA accounting & Finance
ACCA
MSc Electronic Business
MSc Entrepreneurship
MA International Business
MBA
MSc Marketing
MSc Social Entrepreneurship
MSc Sustainable Business

For further details contact:

E-Mail: hubs.enquiries@hud.ac.uk
Web: www.hud.ac.uk/hubs