BA (Hons) Business and Events Management

This course combines key business disciplines such as marketing, finance, and operations with key aspects of event management, including event design, project management, health and safety, sustainability, and the impact of events on the economy and society. From your first day, you’ll be involved in organising events, giving you hands-on experience in planning and execution. Paid placements will help you gain critical knowledge of events management along with work experience. There are also field trip opportunities, which involve visits to a range of tourism and hospitality venues and initiatives around the north-east. The course is available as a four-year sandwich course, where you can undertake a one-year industrial placement. It effectively becomes a third year of a four-year course. Placements are generally paid and are an excellent opportunity to put your learning into practice and understand the context for your new knowledge. The contacts made during placements can also be val

IELTS 6.0 overall (minimum 5.5 in each component) — standard University of Sunderland requirement (source: sunderland.ac.uk/how-to-apply/english-language-requirements)

International students: £17,500 per year

UK students: £9,790 per year

UK/Home: £9,790 per year

International: £17,500 per year

September 2026

Apply via UCAS — equal consideration deadline

• On campus, United Kingdom