
Bachelor of Business with Entrepreneurship Level 8
Discipline: Business
Programme Code:
GA186
Location: Galway - Dublin Road
NFQ Level: 8
Programme Duration: Four years
Mode of Study: Full time
Application Route: Apply through the CAO
Places: 30
CAO Round 1 Points: 280 (2020)
Why Study?
Entrepreneurship is a way of thinking and behaving that can be taught.
This degree is ideal for students who would like to:
- Start their own business
- Revitalise an existing business, possibly a family business
- Work in a progressive organisation that values employees with an entrepreneurial approach to work
This degree will give you a solid grounding in business. It will also give you entrepreneurial knowledge, competence, know-how and skills. You will be supported throughout by staff who share this ethos.
Once students have been taught the initial business fundamentals, there will be a clear focus on Entrepreneurship subjects, including:
- Introduction to Entrepreneurship
- Family Business
- Small Business Start-ups
- Social Enterprise
- Ideas Generation
- New Venture Planning and Creation
- Enterprise Innovation
- Enterprise in Action
- Market Research
- Innovation and Creativity
- Intrapreneurship
- People Management
- Business Ethics
This programme was developed after consultation with Enterprise Ireland, a panel of entrepreneurs and an extensive review of published research.
Programme Modules
Year 1 - Semester 1
Mandatory
Microeconomics, Financial Accounting 1, Management Principles & Business Environment, Introduction to Marketing, Computer Applications
Year 1 - Semester 2
Mandatory
Macroeconomics, Management Accounting 1, Human Resource Management, Introduction to Entrepreneurship, Learning and Innovation Skills
Year 1 - Electives
Academic Writing or Language and Culture 1 (French, German, Spanish or Irish)
Year 2 - Semester 3
Applied Principles of Marketing, Business Information Systems, Business Communications, Human Resource Development, Business Law & Legal Studies (Year Long)
Electives
Leadership & Change Management or Management Accounting 2 or Language and Culture 2 (French, German, Spanish or Irish)
Year 2 - Semester 4
Mandatory
Business Start-up, Statistics for Business, Organisational Behaviour, Selling Techniques
Electives
Intermediate Macroeconomics or Financial Accounting 2 or Language and Culture 2 (French, German, Spanish or Irish)
Year 3 - Semester 5
Mandatory
New Venture Creation, Project Management, Family Business, Financial Management, Market Research
Electives
Civic Engagement or Sales Management or Language and Culture 3 (French, German, Spanish or Irish)
Year 3 - Semester 6
Mandatory
New Venture Planning, Social Enterprise, Organisation Design, Business Ethics and Corporate Governance
Electives (two of the following)
Business Communications and Negotiations, Operations Management, Technology, Management & Society, Language and Culture 3 (French, German, Spanish or Irish)
Year 4
Entrepreneurship in Action (Year Long), Strategic Management (Year Long), Critical Thinking, Research Methods
Electives
People Management, Multi-channel Retail Strategy, Integrated Enterprise Systems, Workplace Issues HR/IR in Context, Supply Chain Management, Language and Culture 3 (French, German, Spanish or Irish)
Career Opportunities
Graduates should be suitable for employment in a wide range of careers in the private, community, voluntary and public sectors including:
- Potentially creating, leading, and directing your own new for-profit or non-profit enterprise or social enterprise
- Contributing to guiding and managing an established private enterprise or non-profit enterprise including family business or social enterprise
- Working in an administration or executive position for a private or non-profit or public sector or social enterprise organisation
- Working as a New Product/Service Development Manager or Social Enterprise Project Manager
- Operating effectively in traditional business roles
- Teaching Business and Business Studies in post-primary schools (after completion of a teaching programme of study)
Follow-on Studies:
Graduates of the Level 8 programme may apply for a range of post graduate programmes (including Masters degrees) in a variety of colleges in Ireland and overseas.
Essential Information:
Applicants for this programme do not have to have studied entrepreneurshp, accounting, finance, economics or business previously. Applicants to not have to be from a family business to successfully complete this programme.
Contact Us
Deirdre Lusby
Head of Department of Management
Tel: +353 (0)91 742222
Fax: +353 (0)91 758410
Email: Deirdre Lusby