Bachelor of Arts - Accounting with Business Management (Honours) (Placement Year)

This four-year sandwich route runs the combined accounting-and-management syllabus around a placement year in industry, usually within a finance function that touches operations — site accounting, project cost control, commercial analysis — which is exactly the environment the combined degree is designed to serve. Taught levels mirror the three-year course: the accounting core carries the credit weight while management modules supply strategy, operations and organisational studies.

The placement search is competitive and student-led with faculty support, and hybrid candidates enjoy a structural edge: they can apply across both the finance-placement and general-business-placement pools, roughly doubling the vacancy universe compared with single-track classmates. Returning students consistently anchor their final-year projects in the host business, and hosts convert a meaningful share of placements into graduate offers.

As with its accounting sibling, the sandwich form of this course is recorded in the source under a BA title against the standard route’s BSc — preserved here exactly as exported, at the same £16,800 fee. The variant also carries the wider intake pattern, with January 2027 and 2028 windows listed alongside all three September cycles, five entry points in total that make it one of the most schedulable business degrees in this batch.

Counsel the economics squarely: an extra year in the UK costs living expenses that the placement salary largely offsets, in exchange for the employability jump that defines sandwich degrees; the risk is failing to secure a seat, which returns the student to the standard timeline. Completion falls around 2030, firmly under the 18-month Graduate Route allowance now scheduled for post-2026 applicants, and the taught study route continues to exclude dependant family members throughout.