BSc (Hons) Applied Entrepreneurship
- Entry year:
- 2025/26
- Start date:
- September
- Study mode:
- Full-time
- Course duration:
- 3 years
- Campus:
- Mount Pleasant
Why study this course with LJMU?
- A hands-on business degree that offers a unique approach to practical business learning
- Liverpool Business School is the first business school in the North West to offer this type of degree course
- Operate as a business, alongside your team (fellow course mates), offering consultancy services to real organisations
- Gain entrepreneurial skills such as creativity, team-work, opportunity recognition, motivation and resilience
- Dedicated space enables students to work and learn together in a creative environment
- Engage with the business community, building networks and contacts whilst you undertake business ventures and projects
- 91% of students surveyed said the teaching staff on our business courses were good at explaining things (National Student Survey 2024)
- Shortlisted for the Times Higher Education Awards 2024 Business School of the Year
About your course
Gain entrepreneurial skills and learn through practical experience, setting up and running real businesses and engaging with live consultancy projects.
Whether you dream of becoming the next Steven Bartlett or simply want a practical understanding of business, this unique, hands-on programme will provide you with the tools, experience and knowledge to succeed.
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The course covers a wide range of business skills and provides the opportunity to build and test knowledge in the real world. You will learn how to turn ideas into viable businesses, how to communicate and sell to customers, how to think creatively and work collaboratively in a team and how to lead and manage a business venture. The skills and experience you will gain throughout the course will enable you to think and act entrepreneurially in a wide range of contexts.
Your personal development is also at the centre of the programmes design and structure. The transferable skills you will acquire combined with your experience of starting and running a business will position you well within the competitive graduate market.
Based on the successful Finnish Team Academy, this programme is very different from your traditional degree; instead of attending lectures you will be learning by applying business skills. Liverpool Business School is the first business school in the North West to offer this type of degree course.
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Course modules
What you will study on this degree
Further guidance on modules
Modules are designated core or optional in accordance with professional body requirements, as applicable, and LJMU’s Academic Framework Regulations. Whilst you are required to study core modules, optional modules provide you with an element of choice. Their availability may vary and will be subject to meeting minimum student numbers.
Where changes to modules are necessary these will be communicated as appropriate.
Core modules
Core modules
Optional Modules
Core modules
Your Learning Experience
Excellent facilities and learning resources
Your learning will be largely self-directed and will respond to the needs of your business activity. Rather than learning in lecture theatres, you will study independently with the support of a specialist team of coaches, who will lead 3 hour team training sessions twice a week.
Team Enterprise Lab is a dedicated open learning space specially for this course. You will have access to collaborative working hubs to work on projects and interact with the local business community. This space is located in the newly built Hardman House
You will also engage with the business community through regular live project work, guest speaker sessions and masterclasses. Regular workshops focusing on various aspects of business will be delivered by the programme team and guest lecturers in response to the needs of the teams and their ventures. Reflective learning is a key part of the course. It enables you to become competent in evaluating your own effectiveness and reflecting on the strategies you could implement in order to improve.
Dedicated personal tutor, plus study skills support
Team coaching approach
To support students in their business activities and associated self-directed learning, a coaching approach and structure is adopted across all levels of the course. Three hour coaching sessions involving the whole team take place twice a week and each team is assigned a specific coach for the duration of the programme. The role of the coach in the coaching sessions is to help the team define their objectives and action plans in relation to their business activities and personal development and to support students to take ownership of the learning required to achieve them.
In addition to team coaching sessions, students will also engage in personal tutorials with their coach throughout each year. These sessions focus on personal development and provide the opportunity to discuss and address issues related to academic performance, engagement and progress.
Assessment varies depending on the modules you choose, but will usually include a combination of exams and coursework.
The course uses a range of assessment methods to help you capture your experience and learning, and assess your understanding.
These include:
- resource reviews (books, articles, videos etc)
- reflective essays
- business activity logs
- pre and post group work reports
- individual and group presentations
- live business challenges
Where you will study
The programme is based in specialist facilities in Hardman House, in the heart of the bustling Mount Pleasant Campus and Liverpool's growing Knowledge Quarter. It is only a short walk from LJMU's Aldham Robarts Library, which contains all the resources you will require for your studies, and is open seven days a week.
Course tutors
Chris Taylor
Programme Leader
The Applied Entrepreneurship programme is very different from your traditional business degree course. Students on the course learn through running their own businesses and working to real project briefs in a collaborative team environment.
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Lecturer/Senior Lecturer
The Applied Entrepreneurship programme is very different from your traditional business degree course. Students on the course learn through running their own businesses and working to real project briefs in a collaborative team environment. Through this process, students develop important skills such as resilience, motivation, teamwork, creativity and problem solving, which will enable them to make a significant impact in a range of business settings.
Career paths
Armed with practical, hands on experience in a simulated workplace environment, you will have the skills, confidence and qualification to secure employment.
Graduates from the program will be well positioned to develop business ventures and work for themselves and evidence from established Team Academy based programmes suggest that this is a common route taken (46% of graduates are running their own businesses six months after graduation in Jyvaskyla, Finland).
Graduates will also be in a good position to seek employment in a range of careers, due to their demonstrable work experience and business acumen. Practical skills gained on the course will enable you to pursue a diverse range of careers in the business sector, including HR, marketing and project management.
Entrepreneurial skills are increasingly sought after by employers who are developing a workforce that is agile, solution focused, creatively minded and able to respond to the challenges of a shifting economic landscape.
Student Futures - Careers, Employability and Enterprise Service
A wide range of opportunities and support is available to you, within and beyond your course, to ensure our students experience a transformation in their career trajectory. Every undergraduate curriculum includes Future Focus during Level 4, an e-learning resource and workshop designed to help you to develop your talents, passion and purpose.
Every student has access to Careers Zone 24/7, LJMU's suite of online Apps, resources and jobs board via the LJMU Student Futures website.
Tuition fees and funding
- Full-time per year:
- £9,535
The University reserves the right to increase tuition fees in accordance with any changes to the maximum allowable fees set by the UK Parliament. In the event of such a change, any fee increase will be subject to a maximum cap of 10% of the total course cost as originally stated at the time of your offer.
The fees quoted above cover registration, tuition, supervision, assessment and examinations as well as:
- library membership with access to printed, multimedia and digital resources
- access to programme-appropriate software
- library and student IT support
- free on-campus wifi via eduroam
Additional costs
Although not all of the following are compulsory/relevant, you should keep in mind the costs of:
- accommodation and living expenditure
- books (should you wish to have your own copies)
- printing, photocopying and stationery
- PC/laptop (should you prefer to purchase your own for independent study and online learning activities)
- mobile phone/tablet (to access online services)
- field trips (travel and activity costs)
- placements (travel expenses and living costs)
- student visas (international students only)
- study abroad opportunities (travel costs, accommodation, visas and immunisations)
- academic conferences (travel costs)
- professional-body membership
- graduation (gown hire etc)
Funding
There are many ways to fund study for home and international students. From loans to International Scholarships and subject-specific funding, you'll find all of the information you need on our specialist funding pages.
Entry requirements
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Qualification requirements
How to apply
Securing your place at LJMU
UCAS is the official application route for our full-time undergraduate courses. Further information on the UCAS application process can be found here https://www.ljmu.ac.uk/study/undergraduate-students/how-to-apply.
As part of the application process, Applied Entrepreneurship holds online, group interviews.
The purpose of these interviews is to ensure your objectives align with aims of the programme and you are motivated to learn in a self-directed, team environment. In addition, it is an opportunity for you to learn more about the programme and experience working in a team.
The interviews are informal; they are not a test. All we expect is that you can demonstrate an interest in entrepreneurship and a willingness to engage in the process.
Applicants should be able to communicate effectively both orally and in their written work and possess the self discipline to manage their time and tasks effectively while at LJMU.
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