Courses to launch your career or lift you to new career heights

The School of Business & Creative Industries at UWS offers professionally focused business and creative courses designed to equip you for career success and prepare you to make an immediate impact on your sector of choice, post-graduation.

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About the School of Business & Creative Industries

Our Business & Creative Industries courses are tailored to suit the needs of modern-day businesses, professionals, and practitioners, meaning that studying with UWS will give you a sought-after skillset that will:

  • Enhance your future chances of employability;
  • Boost your chances in career success.

Our courses are recognised for quality and flexibility, attracting both home and international students. Our strong links with industry and world-class research underpin our courses, which are delivered on each of our campuses and through many partners across the globe.

Our courses are:

  • Professionally-recognised - many of our courses are aligned to professional bodies
  • Work and practitioner-focused – designed with real-world employability firmly in mind
  • Tailor-made - choose specialist, job-based topics or a general degree
  • Flexible - study part time, full time, or online
  • Outward-looking - international opportunities so you’re ready for any role, anywhere
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Our Professional Recognition

Many of our courses are professionally accredited or working towards accreditation. Professional accreditation through institutions can include:

  • Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA)
  • Chartered Institute of Management Accountants (CIMA)
  • Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD)
  • Chartered Institute of Public Finance & Accountancy (CIPFA)
  • Chartered Management Institute (CMI)
  • Institute of Chartered Accountants of Scotland (ICAS)

Additionally, accreditation from our creative programmes may include:

  • Creative Skillset
  • Avid
  • JAMES (Joint Audio Media Educational Support)

Undergraduate

Business

Gain the right skills and confidence to make an impact in business. We work with employers to create programmes that meet the demands of commerce and industry.

At UWS, we offer a wide range of business-related degree courses:

Our graduates have gone on to secure employment with organisations such as Shell, Ford, Motorola and Citibank, as well as national charities and education providers.

Creative Industries

UWS is one of only three Skillset Academies in Scotland - an industry-accredited network of excellence. We offer a wide range of creative-related degree courses, including:

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Postgraduate

Build on your existing qualifications with a postgraduate business degree that will enhance your career prospects as well as your academic knowledge.

Our postgraduate courses offer distinctive and flexible routes to meet the demands of business and creative industries.

We offer a wide range of postgraduate courses in business, including:

Additionally, we offer a wide range of postgraduate courses in creative industries:

Don't take our word for it

"Due to the variety of guest speakers and lecturers who came to campus, my eyes were opened to the wide range of jobs that my BAcc qualification could lead to".

Fatima Jamshed, BAcc (Hons) Accounting graduate, Fund Accountant at BNP Paribas

Research with purpose

The School is respected at home and abroad for its research and consultancy. It focuses on the economic development of communities, enterprise and innovation, and leadership and organisational performance.

Research centres:

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Creative Media Academy

Our Creative Media Academy (CMA) is one of only three such academies in Scotland to be endorsed by Creative Skillet. Directed by award-winning Professor Nick Higgins and Paul Tucker, the CMA has strong links with industry and the public sector. It has established a Glasgow Creative Enterprise Cluster, a driving-force for industry facing, multidisciplinary projects and public events at the Centre for Contemporary Arts and projects at Film City Glasgow.

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International

Our global outlook generates opportunities for study or work experience abroad. Many School staff work as consultants on international projects. We draw participants from across the world to conferences, workshops and seminars. As a student, you can gain from our links with partners in China, India, Europe and beyond.

Information for International Students

Contact us

If you have any enquiries relating to our School, please contact us: bci@uws.ac.uk

Companies that we work with

Staff from the School work with leading organisations for research and consultancy projects and our students gain practical work experience and guest lectures from leading multinational organisations