Undergraduate BSc (Hons)

Business Analytics and Management
with a Foundation Year

Want to be the kind of leader who can succeed based on your data-driven decisions?

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Starting
2025
Typical offer
CDD / 80 UCAS points View all entry requirements

Course overview

If you have a passion for numbers and want to apply them to real life settings, this course is for you.

Businesses rely on data to make decisions across all their core functions. Whether it’s data on employee performance, supply chains, or market trends, managers today need to be able to work with numbers. On our BSc Business Analytics and Management course, you’ll learn the skills to interpret, analyse and present data to influence and facilitate good business decisions while developing your understanding of other key business functions.

You’ll learn from our expert staff who have endless experience working with real companies. With their help and your passion, you will graduate a confident business leader, ready to make decisions, solve problems and find innovative solutions.

The foundation year is for students whose school-leaving qualifications are below the level required. It offers one year of full-time study prior to the start of your BSc course.

Why study Business Analytics and Management at Kent?

Excellent opportunities.

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Study at a Triple Crown Accredited business school.  

Entrepreneurial mindset.

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in the UK for Business and Management (The Guardian University Guide 2025).  

Taught by experts

Our expert teaching staff appear in the top 2% of researchers worldwide.

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Entry requirements

Typical offer
CDD / 80 UCAS points
The University will consider applications from students offering a wide range of qualifications. Click below to find out more.

Course structure

You'll develop a deep understanding of predictive, prescriptive, and descriptive analytics, and learn how to use the data to inform decision making in real world contexts. You'll also learn about a wide variety of areas of business including HRM, accounting, leadership and more, preparing you for whatever your career choices may be.

How you'll study

Our teaching staff bring the subject to life and draw you into the conversation through lectures, seminars, workshops and PC labs.
We're modernising the way you learn at Kent.

In September 2025, we're launching a new curriculum and a progressive approach to assessment, timetabling and employability.

Your future

Kent Business School students find work in public and private sector management both overseas and in the UK in a wide range of companies and organisations, including:

  • Amazon
  • Hewlett Packard
  • PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC)
  • ASOS
  • Disney
  • Deloitte UK
UK analytics graduate salaries
Very high
£31,077
Average base pay (115 salaries)

Fees and funding

Tuition fees for 2025 entry

Full-time

  • UK
    TBC
  • International
    TBC

Your fee status

The University will assess your fee status as part of the application process. If you are uncertain about your fee status you may wish to seek advice from UKCISA before applying.

For details of when and how to pay fees and charges, please see our Student Finance Guide.

IT Equipment 

Students will require regular access to a desktop computer/laptop with an internet connection to use the University of Kent’s online resources and systems. Please see information about the minimum computer requirements for study.  

Find out more about accommodation and living costs, plus general additional costs that you may pay when studying at Kent.

Kent offers generous financial support schemes to assist eligible undergraduate students during their studies. See our funding page for more details. 

Scholarships

We have a range of subject-specific awards and scholarships for academic, sporting and musical achievement.

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Next steps

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If you are from the UK or Ireland, you must apply for this course through UCAS. If you are not from the UK or Ireland, you can apply through UCAS or directly on our website if you have never used UCAS and you do not intend to use UCAS in the future.

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