Business-related degrees

Building on your previous experience

If you've already studied a business-related subject at college in Scotland, there are a whole host of different degree options open to you, like an Open University Open Degree or a named Honours Degree like a BA (Hons) Leadership and Management.

You may also be able to transfer credit from your previous study.

At college you may have studied:

Accounting
Administration and Information Technology
Business
Financial Services
Human Resource Management
Management

Now you might like to continue your studies with an Open University Open Degree

Open Degrees allow you to choose from a variety of courses across a range of subject areas to fulfil the requirements of an Honours Degree. Below are two possible paths to an Open Degree:

If you have an HNC

Level 1	Credits
Credit Transfer for HNC Administration and Information Technology (15 credits of HN study)	120
Level 2
Business organisations and their environments (B201)	60
Communication and information technologies (T215)	60
Level 3
Making sense of strategy (B301)	60
BA/BSc Open Degree	300
Add a further 60 credits at Level 3 for Honours
Level 3
Ebusiness technologies: foundation and practice (T320)	30
Keeping ahead in information and communication technologies (T324)	30
BA/BSc (Hons) Open Degree* *Please note, only HN units at SCQF Levels 7 and 8 are eligible for credit transfer	360

If you have an HND

Level 1	Credits
Credit Transfer for HND Business (30 credits of HN study)	120
Level 2
Credit Transfer for HND Business (30 credits of HN study)	60
Business organisations and their environments (B201)	60
Level 3
Making sense of strategy (B301)	60
BA/BSc Open Degree* *Only 180 transferred credits are being counted and the award is without Honours since there are only 60 credits of Level 3 study	300
Add a further 60 credits at Level 3 for Honours
Level 3
A world of whose making? (DU301)	60
BA/BSc (Hons) Open Degree *Please note, only HN units at SCQF Levels 7 and 8 are eligible for credit transfer	360