This course will ensure you’re fully equipped for a career in business information systems and are completely up to date on what the industry needs right now. 

This programme combines in-depth teaching on the capabilities of business systems and a thorough grounding in the operations of contemporary businesses. By studying these crucial and exciting subjects, you’ll also develop skills applicable to the wider employment sector, such as critical thinking, problem solving, communication, organisation, and time keeping. 

The relatively recent move to more iterative computer systems development methods has had a knock on effect on the skills and knowledge required from developers. As a developer, you are now expected to be able to work in small multi-skilled teams alongside your business users. That means you don’t just need technical competence but also the ability to be flexible, creative and a good communicator. 

Above all you need to be able to speak your customer’s language – with an understanding of businesses and how they operate. Our external visiting speakers emphasise this point again and again – so we ensure that our business information systems courses give you this important mix of skills. 

In your first year, you’ll get a thorough grounding in systems development, programming and databases, while also learning about business and organisational behaviour. Over the next two years, you’ll explore systems analysis, operations strategy and management, systems engineering and organisational information systems. 

You will also be able to select from a wide range of optional modules, allowing you to tailor your own degree to concentrate on your computing expertise or your business knowledge – or more often than not, a valuable balance between the two. 

You’ll complete a final year project pulling together the business and computing aspects of your degree. You also have the option to work together with an external company on this project.  

PLACEMENT YEAR AND STUDY ABROAD

You will be encouraged to consider spending some time in industry by taking up summer placements, especially between your second and third years. You also have the option of transferring onto the BSc Business Information Systems with a Year in Industry course.

AFTER THE COURSE

You’ll leave as a well-rounded graduate with a range of enviable employment positions open to you. Our recent graduates have secured roles at IBM, Logica, Capgemini, Marks & Spencer, and Aviva.

You’ll develop your employability throughout the course by hearing from industry guest speakers, going on company visits and participating in the local tech community (NorDev) and start up community (SyncNorwich).

Our students have been very successful in the annual 54-hour start up event, called Sync the City. Taking part in events like this will boost your confidence, employability and contacts book.

CAREER DESTINATIONS

Examples of careers that you could enter include:

• Business analysis

• Project management

• Systems development

• Systems analysis

• E-Marketing

• Business management