BA (Hons) Entrepreneurship and Business

In today's challenging business world, organisations of all sizes need people who can demonstrate an entrepreneurial mindset with creativity and innovation beyond everyday business and management practices. This course will help you develop these skills.

You'll learn to:

• understand how to spot opportunities
• create value through effective business model design
• develop new products and services and bring them to market
• foster creativity and manage innovation within an organisation

If you have a new business idea that you're passionate about, this course will help you bring it to life in a supported environment. You'll be able to develop your idea through our practical modules, and you'll get lots of support from our dedicated start-up team.

But you don't need a business idea to do this course. Many of our graduates apply their skills in managing innovation, new products and growth in an existing business. Our curriculum supports you equally, whether you wish to run your own business or want to apply your knowledge and skills in an existing organisation.

Course highlights

• Experience a practical course where you'll apply your knowledge to real-life projects, such as helping local businesses in our Business Consultancy Project, developing your venture, or setting up a social enterprise
• Understand the processes of innovation and change in a business and how these can stimulate growth and competitiveness
• Gain an understanding of how different business models work and how these generate value in a variety of contexts
• Benefit from the workshops, drop-in sessions and funding opportunities provided by our student start-up team
• Be mentored by one of our successful Entrepreneurs in Residence
• Use a placement year to develop your own business (or work in another innovative business)
• Learn in one of the UK's most entrepreneurial cities – between 2019 and 2020, the number of new businesses launched in Portsmouth grew by 33% (InstantOffices survey 2020)
• Gain an understanding of how all the parts of a business work together and rely on each other

Start-up visas for international students

As an international student, you can apply for a graduate visa after your studies if you want to stay in the UK and work.

If you're interested in setting up your own business in the UK after graduation and on a Tier 4 visa, you can apply for a UK Start-up Visa. This allows you to stay in the UK after graduation and establish your business here. We're an endorsing institution for these visas.

We’re proud to be a breath of fresh air in the academic world – a place where everyone gets the support they need to achieve their best. We’re always discovering. We don’t fit the mould, we break it. Just as the world keeps moving, so do we.

We’re closely involved with our local community, and we take our ideas into the global marketplace. We partner with businesses, industry, and government to set the course for a better future. And we educate and transform the lives of our students to help them achieve their potential. We stand out, not just in the UK but in the world. We excel in research areas from cosmology and astrophysics to cybersecurity, forensics, and sport science. Since the first day we opened our doors, we've looked towards the future. And we're here to help you shape it.