BA (Hons) Business Studies
Build your business knowledge and professional skills through a direct three-year honours degree in Dublin. The BA (Hons) Business Studies at City College Dublin is a complete undergraduate programme studied…
About Course
Business decisions rarely sit within one department. A pricing decision affects finance and marketing; a change in operations affects employees and customers. This degree gives students a broad basis for understanding those connections before choosing a more focused area of study.
Across three years, students develop their understanding of how organisations work and how managers use financial, commercial and operational information. The subject mix combines numerical work with the study of people, markets and business responsibilities.
Students choose between Business Management and Accounting in the final year. Both sit within the same three-year honours programme, allowing students to shape their studies around their interests.
Core Modules
The programme includes the following subjects. Final-year electives depend on the selected stream and the college’s module arrangements.
Business Foundations
• Management
• Economics I
• Financial Accounting
• Academic Skills / Personal Development
• IT Essentials
• Marketing
• Business Maths
• Introduction to Law
Business Operations and Decision Making
• Organisational Behaviour
• Human Resource Management
• Operations Management
• Management Accounting
• Economics II
• Business Ethics
• Information Systems
• Digital Marketing
• Financial Management
Strategy Enterprise and Specialist Subjects
• Strategic Management
• Principles of Entrepreneurship
Elective subjects:
• Project Management; Principles of Taxation
• Financial Reporting; Audit
• Enterprise: Design and Innovation; Global Supply Chain Management
• International Business Environment; Performance Management
Programme Outcomes
The programme supports students in developing the ability to:
• Explain the relationships between key business functions.
• Interpret business and accounting information.
• Examine organisational challenges from more than one perspective.
• Communicate a clear argument and justify recommendations.
• Complete a three-year Bachelor of Arts with Honours.
Course Modules
Awarding institution
QQI was established under the Qualifications and Quality Assurance (Education and Training) Act 2012, an act of the Oireachtas (Irish parliament). It is a public body reporting to the Minister of Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science. It is partly funded by government and partly from fees for its services. QQI is independent in the performance of its functions under the Act. Various statutory instruments identified in the Act have been approved by the Minister or by QQI.
