Business and Management includes vocational courses such as accountancy and marketing and economics. Business courses can be general, specialized, and extremely specialized courses . Specialized courses cover areas such as marketing, personal management, hospitality management and insurance. Extremely specialized courses include business of perfumery and small business enterprise

Business studies courses lasts for 3 or 4 years, with a sandwich year included.  There are some intensive two year degree which combined with a science subject or engineering can lead to a BSc degree. Higher national diploma or HND takes two or three years to complete and it can be converted into a degree. An advanced business qualification can lead to an MBA

Accountancy courses lasts for 3 to 4 years including a sandwich year. They lead to a BA, BSc, B.Com, BAcc or BFin Degree. Actuarial degrees specialise in banking and insurance. They last three to 4 years and normally lead to BSc. All these degrees can be combined with other subjects.

Pure economics degrees last for three years. Most business courses are based in business schools with in Universities.

The Universities having the Business and Management Departments:

• University of Birmingham, Department of Economics
• Coventry University, Coventry Business School
• University of Exeter, School of Business and Economics
• University of Glamorgan, Business School
• University of Glasgow, Accounting and Finance
• Manchester Metropolitan University, Department of Accounting and Finance
• Richmond, The American International University in London
• University of Surrey, School of Management Studies for the Service Sector
• Gateway2uk education (West Coast University)