BSc (Hons) Equine Business Management

You will be required to have:

- A minimum of 96 UCAS points

OR

- A relevant BTEC Level 3 and significant industry experience

AND

- GCSE English at grade 4 or above, or an equivalent qualification

- A suitable reference

UCAS points may be from qualifications such as A Levels, T Levels, BTEC Level 3 Extended Diplomas, Access to Higher Education Diplomas, and City and Guilds Advanced Technical Diplomas amongst others. Please use the UCAS Tariff points calculator to determine the UCAS points value of your qualifications.

Life and/or experience of non-traditional students will be taken into account when considering applications. The successful completion of an entry task may be required when considering applications without the required formal entry qualifications.

If your first language is not English, or a Tier 4 student visa to study is required and GCSE grade C/4 English or equivalent is not held, English language proficiency level such as International English Language Testing System (IELTS) 6.0 overall (with a minimum 5.5 in each skill) will need evidencing.

Advanced entry may be possible due to prior experience or certificated learning; applicants are invited to complete the accreditation of prior learning approval process.

This programme is delivered with a variety of learning and teaching approaches, utilising excellent onsite resources and extensive industry links for applied aspects.

For all modules, theory lectures are delivered with the core content, providing you with underpinning knowledge. Lectures are used to convey the basic concepts and to facilitate further expansion of such concepts by the students, through independent study.To complement the theory lectures, you will have group seminars to reinforce those concepts delivered theoretically.

The teaching methods focus on facilitating a student-centred approach to enhance your independent learning that takes place outside of the classroom.

You can will learn from experienced, supportive and motivated staff with both academic and industrial experience. This will be supplemented with guest lectures and demonstrations from a range of visiting speakers and offsite trips, as well as access to an online learning environment.

Contact time includes approximately 12-13 hours a week in the first two years and 9-11 hours a week in the final year, incorporating lectures, seminars, practicals and tutorials.

You are also expected to carry out a significant amount of independent study in addition to contact time (approximately 25-30 hours a week). Independent study includes reading around the subject, preparing for tutorials and seminars, preparing for, and completing, module assessments and revision for examinations; forming an essential part of your learning journey.

You will be required to undertake a six-week summer external placement between years 2 and 3, providing you with the opportunity to gain valuable experience within industry to further develop essential graduate attributes and an appreciation of business structures and organisation.

The programme will incorporate a variety of assessment methods across each academic year. The mix of assessments will seek to challenge and evaluate your knowledge, understanding and skills. Assessments for this programme may include written assignments, time constrained assessments, logbooks/portfolios, practical assessments, seminars and presentations, project-based assessments, examinations and a dissertation. Tutors provide support for assessments in class. There will also be opportunity for formative assessment and feedback during the delivery of each module to monitor learning, and to support and prepare you for the summative assessments which make up the module. Feedback on your summative assessments will be given, which will allow you to guide efforts and activities in subsequent modules. Staff aim to return assessed work within a 20 working day timeframe (not including holidays) so that you can most benefit from the feedback.

The programme is designed to enable you to progress to postgraduate study within Equine or beyond. You will also have the opportunity to develop skills for self-employment as well as working within an organisation.

Upon graduating from this programme, you will have access to a vast and extensive scope of the roles within the equine industry and beyond, from sales and marketing to event management. Other areas include finance and retailing, as well as entrepreneurship and innovation approaches.