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Business Enterprise and Innovation Management BA (Hons) top-up
Study level: UndergraduateTop-up courses
This course is an entrepreneurship degree designed for those who want to thrive in a rapidly changing entrepreneurial environment, globally and technologically.
Year of entry
Location
Coventry University (Coventry)
Study mode
Full-time
Duration
1 year full-time (Entry at level 6)
Course code
N331
Start date
September 2025
Course overview
It aims to provide you with theoretical and practical knowledge with the enterprising skills and capabilities to respond not only proactively and creatively, but innovatively to business issues and challenges.
You will be encouraged to adopt a critical approach to innovative ideas and current issues, developing the graduate attributes that not only employers value, but also to forge independent entrepreneurial ventures.
This course may appeal to you if you:
- are an international student who has successfully completed one or two years of undergraduate study and would like to complete your final years of undergraduate study
- have a passion for business and an enterprising mindset
- would like to embark on a course with a practical focus and the chance to get hands-on experience in assessing the feasibility of business opportunities2, and in managing innovation and change
- would like to learn the business enterprise and innovation skills needed to help organisations get ahead – or decide to start your own company to challenge them.
Rated Gold Overall
Teaching Excellence Framework (TEF) 2023
5 QS Stars for Teaching and Facilities
QS Stars University Ratings
Top 5 Student City in England (Coventry)
QS Best Student Cities Index 2025Why you should study this course
If you choose to study the business enterprise and innovation management top-up, you will:
- study a course taught by entrepreneurs in residence, dedicated to researching and applying entrepreneurial thinking (staff subject to change)
- have access to support, advice, and guidance from Coventry University Social Enterprise, who have a track record in helping individuals develop social enterprises and businesses4
- study a module, English Business Presentation Skills, delivered by experts from our College of the Arts and Society, who can help to hone your verbal communication and pitching skills
Upon successful completion, this top-up course can open up pathways into the academic study of entrepreneurship, which you could pursue through our International Entrepreneurship MSc.
100%
of our students are satisfied by the quality of our course
MEQ, 2022
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What you'll study
We regularly review our course content, to make it relevant and current for the benefit of our students. For these reasons, course modules may be updated.
How you'll learn
This course aims to offer a variety of teaching and learning methods to keep your experience dynamic and varied. Teaching methods may include:
- lectures with associated seminars
- tutorials
- workshops, incorporating case studies, problem-centred learning, practical exercises, surgeries, the use of electronic business resources, databases and ICT packages4.
As the course has a focus on the practical application of taught theories, it aims to offer you opportunities for you to ‘enact’ ideas into action, through creative learning opportunities, which may include guided simulations or the production of a website. Your practical skills will be further developed in the module ‘Enterprise and Innovation Applied Project’, where you will design your own project with the support of a supervisor.
Teaching contact hours
As a full-time undergraduate student, you will study modules totalling 120 credits each academic year. A typical 20 credit module requires a total of 200 hours study. This is made up of teaching contact hours, guided and independent study.
Teaching hours:
Teaching hours vary each semester, year of study and due to module selection. During your top-up year you can expect 9-12 teaching hours each week. You will also have the option to attend optional sessions including time with a progress coach or to meet with staff for advice and feedback. As you progress through your studies, teaching hours may reduce.
Guided and independent study:
Throughout your studies, you will be expected to spend time in guided and independent study to make up the required study hours per module. You'll be digging deeper into topics, review what you've learned and complete assignments. This can be completed around your personal commitments. As you progress through your studies, you'll spend more time in independent study.
Online learning:
As an innovative university, we use different teaching methods including online tools and emerging technologies. So, some of your teaching hours and assessments may be delivered online.
Assessment
This course will be assessed using a variety of methods which will vary depending upon the module.
Assessment methods may include:
- essays
- group work
- presentations
- reports
- projects
- coursework
- individual Assignments
- portfolios.
The Coventry University Group assessment strategy ensures that our courses are fairly assessed and allows us to monitor student progression towards achieving the intended learning outcomes.
What our course director says
Our Business Enterprise and Innovation Management BA (Hons) top-up is the perfect course to help you apply the skills needed to be enterprising within employment, by building on prior learning to help you graduate as an entrepreneurial leader, with a strong grasp of innovation and sustainability.
Dr Chioma Ofoma, Course Director, 2024
Entry requirements
Typical entry requirements:
Fees and funding
| Student | Full-time | Part-time |
|---|---|---|
| UK, Ireland*, Channel Islands or Isle of Man | 2025/26 fees TBC 2024/25 fees - £9,250 per year |
Not available |
| EU | 2025/26 fees TBC 2024/25 fees - £9,250 per year with EU Support Bursary** 2025/26 fees TBC 2024/25 fees - £16,800 per year without EU Support Bursary** |
Not available |
| International | 2025/26 fees TBC 2024/25 fees - £16,800 per year |
Not available |
For advice and guidance on tuition fees and student loans visit our Undergraduate Finance page and see the university’s Tuition Fee and Refund Terms and Conditions.
The university will charge the tuition fees that are stated in the above table for the first Academic Year of study. The university will review tuition fees each year. For UK (home) students, if Parliament permits an increase in tuition fees, the university may increase fees for each subsequent year of study in line with any such changes. Note that any increase is expected to be in line with inflation.
For international students, we may increase fees each year, but such increases will be no more than 5% above inflation. If you defer your course start date or have to extend your studies beyond the normal duration of the course (e.g. to repeat a year or resit examinations) the university reserves the right to charge you fees at a higher rate and/or in accordance with any legislative changes during the additional period of study.
We offer a range of International scholarships to students all over the world. For more information, visit our International Scholarships page.
Tuition fees cover the cost of your teaching, assessments, facilities and support services. There may be additional costs not covered by this fee such as accommodation and living costs, recommended reading books, stationery, printing and re-assessments should you need them. Find out what's included in your tuition costs.
*Irish student fees
The rights of Irish residents to study in the UK are preserved under the Common Travel Area arrangement. If you are an Irish student and meet the residency criteria, you can study in England, pay the same level of tuition fees as English students and utilise the Tuition Fee Loan.
**EU Support Bursary
Following the UK's exit from the European Union, we are offering financial support to all eligible EU students who wish to study an undergraduate or a postgraduate degree with us full-time. This bursary will be used to offset the cost of your tuition fees to bring them in line with that of UK students. Students studying a degree with a foundation year with us are not eligible for the bursary.
How do you know if you need to pay UK or international tuition fees?
Facilities
During your studies, you could have access to our Trading Floor, which facilitates strategic problem-solving in life-like simulated business environments, and our DigiComm Lab, which recreates the atmosphere of working for a contemporary marketing agency4.
Careers and opportunities
Upon successful completion of the course you will be able to:
- demonstrate a breadth of knowledge and practice, of the enterprising behaviours, attitudes, and competencies necessary to succeed in the global workplace.
- evaluate the operational, cultural, and strategic processes of setting up, growing and scaling an entrepreneurial venture (e.g. markets, marketing and sales, customers, finance, organisational behaviour, operations, business analysis, digital business, business policy and strategy, and innovation and enterprise development).
- discuss issues around sustainability, socio-economic development, responsible leadership and transformational entrepreneurship, and consider their application to entrepreneurial ventures.
- assess and apply appropriate theories, concepts, models or techniques to identify, analyse and make recommendations for solutions to business problems in enterprises of varying sizes and growth stages.
- identify, select, and apply theoretical concepts to conceive, assess, plan, and enact entrepreneurial projects to innovate and create scalable sustainable businesses.
- critically evaluate, assimilate, design and conduct research to inform business enterprise development in the private, public or voluntary and community sector.
- critically reflect, using appropriate reflective theories and tools, on entrepreneurial learning and digital skills and knowledge capabilities to identify areas for improvement and develop goals and action plans for continuous personal development as an entrepreneur or intrapreneur.
Whether you have aspirations to start your own business or social enterprise, or are more interested in becoming intrapreneurial within employment, this course should help to set you on the right track. Upon successful completion, you should develop key transferable skills, such as problem-solving, analytical thinking and resilience, which should benefit you whether you seek to become an intrapreneur, driving innovation inside a company, or an entrepreneur, setting up your own venture.
Coventry University is committed to preparing you for your potential future career options and giving you a competitive edge in the graduate job market. Talent Team, the university's employability team provides a wide range of support services to help you plan and prepare for your potential future career options.
How to apply
UK students
International students
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