**Foundation Year**Our Foundation Year provides an excellent alternative route to Keele, providing a unique opportunity to better prepare for your chosen degree, and with guaranteed entry onto your undergraduate course once you successfully complete your Foundation Year. This extra year of study can improve your academic skills, expand your subject knowledge, give you a better understanding of higher education and, perhaps most importantly of all, build your confidence. On the Keele Foundation Year, you'll study on campus, joining our undergraduate community from the outset, with access to all the facilities and support that you'd get as an undergraduate student at Keele.**International Students**For International Students, Foundation Years are delivered through our dedicated on-campus provider, Keele University International College. To find out more, visit https://kuic.keele.ac.uk/**Management with Integrated Master's**Maximise your potential to become a confident leader on our innovative and flexible four year integrated master’s programme. Develop essential management intelligence and associated business skills to achieve a master’s level qualification that will give you a competitive edge.**Why choose this course?**- No. 1 in the UK for Business Studies (National Student Survey, 2020)- Work placement, study abroad and entrepreneurship opportunities- Access to industry-leading software such as Bloomberg and STATA- Study alongside innovative companies based in Keele Business School- Four year integrated masters level programme Four years of study together with the flexibility to choose from a range of different modules in related disciplines including marketing, accounting, human resource management and economics, aims to accelerate you on your chosen career path. You will expand your knowledge about different contemporary management theories and techniques to improve your understanding of organisations and the environment in which they operate. The entire course will provide you with excellent expertise in a whole array of different areas from management and related subjects.Modern business needs individuals who can think critically about managing and what work means for employees. You will examine organisations from a sociological viewpoint, looking at modern work situations and focussing on how we affect each other in familiar networks like family and in the community, through to more formal networks.**About Keele**Keele University was established in 1949 by the former Vice-Chancellor of Oxford University. Founded to meet the needs of a changing world, Keele has always had a pioneering vision to be a different kind of university. We excel in both teaching and research, with some of the most satisfied students in England, and research that is changing lives for the better at a regional, national and global level. Our beautiful 600-acre campus is one of the biggest in Britain – but all the most important services and facilities are on your doorstep, with accommodation, teaching spaces, facilities including a medical centre, sports centre and pharmacy, and a range of shops, eateries and entertainment venues – including the Students’ Union – clustered around the centre.

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