School Entry Requirements - Business School
Entry requirements for degrees for students who are under 21 years old are based on passing at least two A-levels or AVCE double award. Applications are also welcome from students with BTEC or GNVQ qualifications. You will require a minimum of 180 UCAS points to gain entry. Points from AS-levels or ASVCEs are also taken into account.
In addition we normally require at least 3 GCSEs, including English GCSE (grade A–C) and mathematics (grade A–C). Alternatively Key Skills qualifications in "Application or Numbers" or “Communication” at level 2 will also be considered.
Applications from mature students and/or students with professional work backgrounds are also welcome.
If you wish to apply for a programme with a language as a minor component (…"with" French, etc.), you will need a minimum of grade C at GCSE in the relevant language. For a joint combination (…"and" French, etc.), you will need an A-level in the relevant language.
Qualification scores
| GCE/VCE | BTEC National | OCR (Oxford, Cambridge and RSA Examinations) | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DDD | D1 | 360 | ||||||||||
| DDM | D2/M1 | 320 | ||||||||||
| DMM | M2 | 24 | 280 | |||||||||
| AA | DD | MMM | D | M3 | 240 | |||||||
| AB | 220 | |||||||||||
| BB | DM | MMP | M1 | P1 | 200 | |||||||
| BC | 180 | |||||||||||
| CC | MM | MPP | M2/P1 | P2 | 160 | |||||||
| CD | 140 | |||||||||||
| AA | A | DD | D | MP | PPP | D | P2 | P3 | 120 | |||
| AB | ||||||||||||
| BB | B | DE | 100 | |||||||||
| BC | ||||||||||||
| CC | C | EE | M | PP | M | P3 | 80 | |||||
| CD | 70 | |||||||||||
| A | DD | D | 60 | |||||||||
| B | DE | 50 | ||||||||||
| C | EE | E | P | P | 40 | |||||||
| D | Level 4 | 30 | ||||||||||
| E | Level 3 | 20 | ||||||||||
| Level 2 | 10 | |||||||||||
* The scores shown for Key Skills are individual unit scores. For the Key Skills qualification, the individual scores are aggregated. For example, a student obtaining level 3 in each unit would achieve a points score of 60.
