What's our offering?
Join one of Greenwich Business School's taught degree courses and you'll benefit from comprehensive career preparation and employability support from day one. Our taught courses are focussed on your future. Designed with employability at their core, they combine academic knowledge with the development of a range of practical skills to help you go on to succeed in the workplace.
Join us as an undergraduate and you'll have the chance - if you're NOT a final-year direct entry student AND the course has a sandwich mode which is open to students - to put your skills to use on a work placement year between your second and third year. At postgraduate level, we also have a number of 'with placement' master's degrees - join one of these and you'll have a chance to undertake a work placement.
Aside from your course, you'll also have access to a great Employability Team who offer employability guidance and events to help you land a dream grad job, a Career Mentoring Programme and chances to network and get industry insight. Plus, if you're looking to start your own business, we've an expert team who can provide advice on starting and scaling a business.
Overall, our employability-focused approach means you'll graduate not just with a degree but with the confidence and capability to thrive in the competitive 21st century business world.
How we help you succeed
You'll get access to a comprehensive range of career services to support you at every stage of your journey with us. The University’s Employability team can help you to identify your strengths through personalised 1-2-1 guidance; perfect your applications with expert CV and interview preparation; build valuable industry connections through networking events and mentoring; and help you find opportunities to get experience and put your skills and learning into action in an organisation.
Identify your skills
Learn more about yourself and build confidence through tailored career advice
Meet employers and network
Get noticed and receive valuable insights through events and mentoring
Get help with job applications and interviews
Find out how you can get job application support as a care leaver or disabled student
Gain workplace experience
Relevant work experience can really help you attract potential employers. A placement - or an internship - can be a life-changing experience, giving you the chance to demonstrate and develop your skills, get industry insight and start to build your list of contacts and, of course, really make your CV stand out!
Many* of our taught undergraduate degrees - plus a number of our taught postgraduate degrees - at Greenwich Business School offer you a chance to undertake a placement year which, for undergraduates, is taken between the second and third years of study. (*Join us as an undergraduate and you'll have a chance - if you're NOT a final-year direct entry student AND the course has a sandwich mode which is open to students - to undertake a placement. Join us as a taught master's student on one of our 'with placement' degrees and you'll have a chance to undertake a work placement.) Previous Greenwich Business School students have secured their placement year with organisations such as the NHS, Nomura, RSK, Charlton Athletic, Disney, Enterprise Rent-A-Car and many more!
Look out too for a chance to do an internship - a shorter opportunity which may, depending on its nature, be something which is either done alongside your studies or during the holidays - which our first-rate careers team advertise.
Greenwich's dedicated team will support you in finding the right opportunity for you and can also help prepare you for insight days and help you identify your strengths.
Be the founder of your future
Want to become an entrepreneur? The Generator is the place for all things enterprise at the University. They can help you - as a student - start, scale and grow your business idea from the ground up and have helped a number of students and alumni develop and launch successful businesses.
Entrepreneur-minded?
Our Generator Team can help you start, scale and grow a business, from the ground up, and they also run the University's Enterprise Challenge.
Get started
Find out how we can help you to learn about enterprise, develop your first idea, and meet like-minded students.
Developing your business
Find out how to develop your business or social enterprise via competitions, mentoring and opportunities.
Our graduates
Join us and you’ll be following in the footsteps of countless successful Greenwich Business School students who’ve gone on to make a real difference in business and society around the world. With innovative entrepreneurs to corporate leaders, our alumni network represents the transformative power of a Greenwich Business School education. Here are just three of our graduates.
Graduate focus: Byron
Greenwich Business School alumnus and honorand Byron Cole is part of UUK’s ‘100 Faces campaign’ which aims to champion and celebrate the positive impact of ‘first-in-the-family’ graduates on the UK.
Holly Wang
Holly Wang is founder of UK-based fashion brand, Miss Patina, which is stocked in more than 100 stores and boutiques across the UK, Europe, Asia, Canada and the USA.
Jez Frampton
Jez Frampton is Global Chief Executive Officer of Interbrand, the world’s leading brand consultancy. Interbrand is the agency behind the campaigns of thousands of household brands, from Microsoft and McDonalds to Cancer Research UK and the BBC.