Bachelor of Arts - Business Entrepreneurship and Innovation (Honours) (with placement year)

The sandwich route through Entrepreneurship and Innovation places students inside a business for a paid year between the taught levels — ideally a startup, scale-up or innovation unit, where the course’s subject matter is the daily weather rather than a case study. Taught content tracks the standard degree across opportunity recognition, entrepreneurial finance, innovation management and venture development, with the final year often built around the student’s own business concept.

Placement-hunting for this cohort works differently from the corporate schemes: smaller companies recruit later, less formally and on initiative, so the faculty encourages direct approaches alongside the advertised vacancy board — itself a lesson in the entrepreneurial method the degree teaches. Students returning from growth-stage environments consistently produce the strongest final-year ventures, having watched product, cash and hiring decisions made under real constraint.

A recruitment nuance specific to this variant: scale-ups and startups rarely advertise placement schemes formally, so the faculty explicitly coaches speculative outreach for this cohort — identifying target companies, pitching a placement role that does not yet exist — and students who master that process report it as the single most transferable thing the degree taught them. Fees hold at the faculty’s standard £16,800 for taught years.

The advisory line for families: this variant suits self-starters who will hustle for their placement and treat the year as an apprenticeship in company-building; passive students gain more from the standard route’s shorter timeline. Graduation lands around 2030 under the 18-month Graduate Route settlement for post-2026 applicants — a window that suits employment-first plans better than immediate founding — and taught study visas continue to exclude dependants throughout.