Information for Prospective Undergraduates

Management Degrees at Aberystwyth University

Available as a joint honours degree, as well as a minor subject in a major/minor degree.

Management Degree

Good managers are hard to find. To be a good manager, you must deal on a daily basis with a complex range of economic, financial, human and legal issues: issues which can have a profound impact on the lives of the people you manage and on the performance of the business you work in. You must be both a good team player and a good leader of the team; with the clarity of vision to set priorities, and the inter-personal skills needed both to delegate responsibility and to enable and support the work of your staff.

Here at Aberystwyth, you will study your Management degree in a department which:

• makes world-leading contributions to research and practice;
• combines traditional academic teaching with up-to-date training in the skills you will need for business;
• works with you as an individual to optimise your career opportunities;
• enables you to combine Management with a good range of other disciplines;
• is part of a University which, year after year, has one of the highest student satisfaction ratings in the UK;
• offers all students the opportunity to take a year out from their studies to work in business.

However good you are at your specialist subject, if you want to progress in your career, you are likely to need the skills specific to managing people, departments or larger organisations at some point. Besides our dedicated single honours degree in Business and Management (N122), here is the range of subjects with which you can combine Management as a minor subject at Aberystwyth: i.e. 66% in the subject below and 33% in Management:

• Accounting and Finance;
• Business Information Technology;
• Computer Science;
• Economics;
• German;
• Human Geography;
• Law (BA);
• Marketing;
• Mathematics;
• Modern Languages;
• Physics;
• Welsh.

Management Degree Year 1  

No prior knowledge is assumed, so Year 1 of your Management Degree lays the foundation for your studies. As well as modules in your major subject, you will study the following Management subjects:

• Introduction to Management;
• Business Environment.

Management Degree Year 2 and 3

In Years 2 and 3 (Years 2 and 4 if you do a year abroad: e.g. if you’re studying German with Management) you will study the following subjects:

• Organisational Behaviour;
• Human Resource Management;
• Marketing Communications;
• Business Strategy.

This programme with Management as the minor subject provides you with the opportunity of developing and applying management skills and knowledge, within your chosen subject area. The management programmes aim to develop your critical, analytical and problem-solving skills and provide you with a multidisciplinary learning environment and application context.

Of course, if you want do 66% Management and 33% in another subject, that’s possible too. Here’s that list: ie you can do 66% Management with 33% of the subjects listed below:

• Computer Science;
• Economic & Social History;
• French;
• German;
• Information Management;
• International Politics;
• Law;
• Mathematics;
• Politics;
• Spanish;
• Welsh.