Buckingham Business School (reviews)

Academics at Buckingham Business School

Buckingham Business School offers a range of undergraduate degrees with flexible entry points both in September and January. The innovative 2-year honours degrees offered at the School are equivalent to 3-year honours degrees at other universities, but allow students to complete both their Bachelor’s and Master’s within 3 years. The degrees provide students with a global, real-world perspective of the business environment. Courses are aimed at stimulating an entrepreneurial mindset among students. The teaching approach used by Buckingham Business School focused on personalized and small group teaching in order to meet everyone’s individual needs.

The undergraduate degrees offered by Buckingham Business School include Accounting and Finance (2- and 3-year options), BSc Operational Excellence Online (for organizations only), Business Management (2- and 3-year options), Business Management with Work Placement Year, Marketing as well as Business Enterprise (BBE).

At postgraduate level Buckingham Business School has the following degrees: MBA, MSc Accounting and Finance, MSc Entrepreneurial Consultancy & Practice, MSc Finance and Investment, MSc Financial Service Management, MSc Lean Enterprise (part-time), MSc Management in a Service Economy, MSC Strategic Marketing & Customer Experience Management, MPhil and DPhil degrees by research in various topics as well as Porfessional Doctorate in Operational Excellence.

There is a variety of Professional and Executive Short Courses available through the Centre for Professional and Executive Development (CfPED) as well.

Students can be entitled to various scholarships, such as Postgraduate First Class Scholarship awarded to students with a First class Bachelor’s Honours degree, which reduces tuition fees by 33%. Other scholarships include International Entrepreneur Scholarship and Kingham Scholarship, which are awarded to entrepreneurial students, indicating the emphasis Buckingham Business School places on developing an entrepreneurial mindset among its students.

Campus & Student Life

The University offers a wide range of social activities throughout the entire year, some of which are Rag Week and the Swan Ball. There is a huge diversity of societies, which students can join as well. Societies fall under different categories, such as cultural societies, interest-based societies, religious societies, subject-related societies, sports societies and medical societies. Information about how students can join non-university sports clubs and activities in the area and the Buckingham Choral Society is also available on the University’s website.

The University of Buckingham has two libraries (The Hunter Street Library and The Franciscan Library) full of useful resources, which are at Buckingham Business School students’ disposal.

Career & Alumni

Buckingham Business School aims to give its students the best possible start in their professional business careers. Therefore, it offers opportunities, such as business simulations organized by companies like L’Oreal and IBM, thanks to which students can obtain valuable skills and knowledge. Other programmes, such as Executive-in-Residence, which brings senior managers to live on campus for a short period of time, when they are available as a resource to the University’s community.

An increasing number of courses offered by the University are integrating real-world projects as part of their programme. The idea of this innovative approach is to enable students to work on team assignments with local and regional companies, allowing them to apply their knowledge in a real-world business environment while still at University.