Our courses
Foundation Year
BSc Accounting & Finance (with Foundation Year) BSc Accounting & Finance (with Foundation Year) with Placement Year
Start date: Sept 2025 Start date: Sept 2025
Duration: 4 years, full-time Duration: 5 years, full-time
UCAS code: N4N4 UCAS code: N40J
BSc Management (with Foundation Year)
Start date: Sept 2025
Duration: 4 years, full-time
UCAS code: N20A
BSc Management (with Foundation Year) with Placement Year Start date: Sept 2025
Duration: 5 years, full-time
UCAS code: N20J
The Foundation Year has presented me with so many opportunities and has allowed me to settle in and make a seamless transition onto the first year of my course.” Dominik Kulakowski BSc Accounting & Finance (with Foundation Year) (current student)
*BSc International Management (with Foundation Year) will be available for 2025 entry.
Overview Our Foundation Year students have done, and continue to do, amazing things. We recognise that there are bright, motivated students capable of succeeding on our courses who may not get the chance to because of circumstances beyond their control. For example, students from widening participation backgrounds who may have been in receipt of free school meals whilst at secondary school, be a first-generation entrant to higher education or have spent time in local-authority care, are not always able to gain access to higher education at the same rate as other students - not because they cannot succeed, but because of barriers that make it difficult to prove they can. If you think you might be one of these students, someone who is motivated and eager to learn, but has not met our standard admissions criteria, then this course could be for you. The Foundation Year gives you the opportunity to spend a year familiarising yourself with university life. We provide a diverse programme of events and activities, such as working with external organisations, guest lectures, careers workshops, and projects, that provide you with an understanding of the key areas of business whilst preparing you with the necessary skills for your undergraduate degree. Throughout the course you will receive a great deal of support from our dedicated team of academic faculty, personal tutors, former Foundation Year student mentors, and our administrative staff. Once you successfully complete the Foundation Year you will automatically join our direct entry students following the course structure for either Accounting & Finance, Management and International Management. This will include a placement year if you decide to study a ‘with Placement Year’ variant of this degree.
Entry requirements
Please note that this course is only available to applicants eligible for Home Fee Status. ■ Applicants interested in studying a BSc Accounting & Finance variant of the Foundation Year should have studied a higher level quantitative subject such as Maths, Further Maths, Physics, Calculus or Statistics ■ To complete and pass three full A level courses, excluding General Studies and Critical Thinking ■ International Baccalaureate: completion of three subjects at Higher Level and three subjects at Standard Level, achieving a minimum of 24 points ■ Other qualifications eg complete and pass Scottish Advanced Highers ■ BTEC: Completion of BTEC Level 3 Extended Diploma, to at least pass standard ■ GCSEs: B/6 in GCSE English Language, B/6 in GCSE Mathematics and C/4 in five other GCSE subjects. Applicants with grade C/4 in GCSE English
It is an amazing opportunity to build your knowledge and skills in preparation for your degree. It has created possibilities and opened up opportunities for me.”
We offer an extra year of academic challenge and wrap-around support for students who haven’t met our entry requirements due to personal or institutional barriers beyond their control. Equal access to higher education is essential for a fair society – and these students prove daily what a loss it would be if they were
Leah Hartland BSc Management
(with Foundation Year and Placement Year) (current student)
Language and grade B/6 in GCSE English Literature will also be considered ■ You must also meet at least
one of the Widening Participation criteria listed on the WBS website. More information is available at:
not a part of our WBS community.”
Tamara Friedrich Associate Professor Course Director
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Undergraduate Programme
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