Degree Apprenticeship Undergraduate: BA (Hons) Business Management Chartered Manager

With the full range of business skills, including managing people, marketing, finance, planning and strategy, leadership and digital business technology, you will learn how organisations operate and compete - and how, by applying these management skills, you can help them achieve their strategic ambitions. Study while you work on our blended learning degree apprenticeship course and take your career to the next level.

This course is ideal for a new to post manager or anyone aspiring to be a professional manager in the private, public or third sector. It’s relevant to all sizes of organisation. Our BA (Hons) degree is ‘dual accredited’ by the Chartered Management Institute (CMI), meaning that it has already been aligned and mapped to the CMI qualification. This lets you gain an additional qualification (CMI Level 5 Diploma) as part of your academic studies, and access to the exemption (streamlined) route to Chartered Manager. A CMDA takes three years to complete and offers you the additional benefits of CMI Affiliate Member status from the start of your course. On completion, you can gain full Chartered Manager Status through membership of the CMI.

Learning for our Chartered Manager Degree Apprenticeship is delivered online, with workshops taking place on our Cambridge or Chelmsford campuses.

We recognise your prior learning

If you have successfully completed a relevant qualification, it may be possible to reduce the number of credits you need to study through Accreditation of Prior Certificated Learning (APCL). We can look at the qualifications you have to see if they can be matched to the course content. This may mean you can reduce the overall time it takes to study the course. Examples of qualifications that existing students have used to reduce their study duration include CMI Level 5 Diploma in Business and Management and OCR Level 4 Diploma and Level 5 NVQ Diploma.

If you think you may be eligible to benefit from APCL, please contact us at [email protected]for more information.

*All appropriate and equivalent, UK and international, Level 3 (and above) qualifications will be considered. If you do not have the appropriate Level 2 Maths and English, you must ensure you complete these prior to the End Point Assessment. For further details about which qualifications meet Level 2 requirements check the gov.uk website.

**We will also consider applicants with non-standard qualifications provided you have a significant amount of relevant experience, are well-supported by your employer, and demonstrate the ability to manage university-level study. This is with the exception of ESFA approved Level 2 Maths and English qualifications which are mandatory.

Teaching at ARU

Degree apprenticeships are delivered via a blend of face-to-face campus teaching, work-based learning and online teaching supported by our established online learning systems to provide additional support for individual study and engagement. The mix of this blended approach varies between apprenticeships.