BSc Business, Hospitality and Events Management

Bachelor of Science (BSc)

Summary
Study level
Level 6
Award
BSc
Full time
3 Years or 4 Years (with Foundation Year)
Part time
N/A
Location
Birmingham, Derby, London, Manchester, Sunderland
What makes Uniupp special?
Education for everyone, everywhere

UniUpp helps you access higher study, with flexible options wherever you live, work and study today, with ease.

You decide how and where to study

Choose a study route that fits your schedule, location and goals, with flexible options built around your life.

Full support both online and on-site

Get support online and onsite from choosing your course to preparing applications and taking a clear next step.

Strong focus on employability

Build skills through study tied to real roles, better applications and career growth from day one with support.

Course overview

Build business confidence, hospitality and events insight with BSc Business, Hospitality and Events Management, a 3 year degree, or 4 years with foundation, made for adults, parents, carers, and career changers who want a calm UK route into study and a steady real step towards a better future right now.

This BSc Business, Hospitality and Events Management course explains service, events and business ideas in easy words, so you can study with hope after time away from study. It builds work ready habits employers value, and applying via UniUpp can feel easy, calmer, and more guided from your first step now.

What you’ll learn

Across this course you will build a key grasp of how firms welcome guests, plan events, and manage service work, from customer care and venue planning to teamwork, operations, and decisions. You will also grow practical skills in writing, planning, fair judgement and analysis, plus belief to research, study, and share ideas well.

Just as vital, you build self belief, habits, and study routines that support your progress through the degree and into hospitality and events work, helping you feel able, and ready for what comes next.

Learn by doing

You learn by doing here, using useful hospitality case studies, live event tasks, group talks, and work related examples that link theory to everyday life. These applied tasks help you practise service skills, check your thinking, and build strong belief to apply what you learn, in work settings each day.

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Course details and modules

This BSc Business, Hospitality and Events Management course is built to grow your understanding piece by piece, starting with the foundations and moving to applied hospitality and events thinking you can use in real jobs.

Each module connects to the next, so your abilities, confidence, and knowledge build in a sensible order. You are never thrown in at the deep end; instead, you progress at a comfortable pace that suits learners returning to learning.

Principles of Management

This first module builds your understanding of clear management basics, looking at UK firms, planning, people, and how key teams are well guided in work.

Marketing for Hospitality and Events

This module helps you study event marketing with guest needs, brand ideas, good campaigns, venue offers, and how firms reach the right people well today.

Strategic Hospitality and Events Management

This module covers how hospitality and events leaders guide aims, guest needs, service care, and venue growth from planning to use, in real firms. You will learn simple, useful ideas you can spot in venues helping you understand how strong hospitality and event plans support good guest trips and decisions.

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I left school years ago and never thought I could study, but this BSc Business, Hospitality and Events Management course welcomed me just where I stood! The early lessons felt clear, the guidance felt reassuring, and slowly, my confidence began to develop. I now understand how hospitality businesses welcome guests, and I feel prepared to take a confident step forwards.

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Balancing employment and family meant I needed something genuinely flexible, and this programme gave me exactly that. I could study around my busy shifts and my younger children without ever feeling left behind. The tutors were so understanding and thoughtful, and the gentle approach kept me progressing. It quietly changed how I see my real future and goals in tourism.

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Modules

The three modules fit together so the course feels clear and manageable. From management foundations to hospitality marketing and strategy each one builds the knowledge and steady self belief you need to keep going well and grow.

Do I need business experience to begin?

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No service experience is needed to commence this degree. It is designed for beginners, including people returning to learning after several years away. The early modules start with business, service, and events basics, and build gently, so you are not left behind. If you can give it time, you can progress.

How will I be taught and supported?

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You are taught through clear explanations, useful tasks, and kind, patient tutor support. Help is available when you feel confused, and you can ask questions freely. The aim is to make business, hospitality, and events ideas simple and usable, so you steadily grow in confidence at a pace that matches life.

Could this course help my career?

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This BSc can support your route into hospitality operations, events, and venue management roles, depending on your goals. It builds good skills and confidence employers often look for. While no course can promise a job, the knowledge and habits you build can help you compete strongly for the work you want.

Can I fit study around my life?

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Yes, this programme is designed with busy adults firmly in mind, so you can study calmly around work, family, and other commitments. Flexible learning lets you fit your study into the week at times that suit you. Many learners balance demanding jobs and caring roles while steadily making real progress now.

Taking that first step can feel overwhelming, but you are never truly alone. Check your eligibility today, and let UniUpp help guide your important move.

Pathways that align with your career ambitions

This BSc Business, Hospitality and Events Management course can support many service led routes, based on your own goals, skills, and interests. Whether you want hotel operations or events work, it helps build a good real footing.

Hospitality Operations Manager

This pathway suits those drawn to guest service, venue teams, and daily work, moving to operations roles, helping busy hotels run well, in service firms.

Events Coordinator, Manager or Venue Manager

This pathway fits those who enjoy planning and teams, moving to event planner or venue manager roles helping conferences, meets and busy guest days well.

Free vendor courses

You may have a chance to build extra practical skills through optional short courses, helping you stand out, and feel more workplace ready and confident.

How do we assess you?
Assessments are designed to test your grasp through practical, relevant tasks, so you can show what you have learned in clear and genuinely helpful ways.
  • Good assignments asking you to apply event ideas in realistic work based situations and daily challenges you may meet.
  • Clear written tasks and reflective work that help you show your grasp, your steady progress, and your real confidence.

Study options

UniUpp is here to make studying feel achievable, whatever your starting point or prior experience. This BSc Business, Hospitality and Events Management course is designed to fit around daily real life, so you can study at a calm, comfortable pace.

You are supported from your earliest enquiry through to enrolment and beyond, with friendly reassurance at every stage. Our team can help you understand your options and choose the pathway that suits you right.

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I was apprehensive about going back into study after many years, but UniUpp made the entire experience feel calm and reassuring. Somebody explained my options clearly, answered my questions, and never once made me feel pressured. The flexible study pathway fitted comfortably around my job, and I genuinely felt supported. I am so grateful I finally took that first step.

Jude Olatunde,
BSc Business and Tourism Management student
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Flexible Study Around Your Life

How does it work?

This study option is built around the realities of adult life, so you can continue learning even when your days already feel full. You do not have to put your career, your family, or responsibilities on hold to study for this BSc Business, Hospitality and Events Management course. Instead, the learning is designed to slot into the time you have, at a consistent pace which feels achievable rather than rushed. You work through clear, organised materials which explain every concept within simple, accessible language, with plenty of relatable workplace examples to help everything make complete sense. Nothing is left unexplained, and you can revisit anything difficult. Learn at times that fit comfortably around your employment, family, and daily routine. Move at a reasonable, manageable pace, without any pressure to rush onward. Reach out for friendly, patient encouragement whenever you feel uncertain or hesitant. Many of our learners are returning to study following years away, so this option is designed with precisely those people in mind. It quietly provides you the space you need to develop your confidence, build helpful study routines, and make genuine progression, one small, manageable and reassuring step at a time, for just as long as you might need.

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From First Contact to Beyond

How does it work?

From your very first conversation with UniUpp, you are treated as a real person, not just another application form. Our friendly team takes the time to understand where you are right now, what you quietly hope to achieve, and any worries you might have about returning to study. There is never any pressure, and no question is ever treated as too minor or simple to raise. As you move towards commencing this important BSc Business, Hospitality and Events Management course, someone is there to support you through every stage clearly and considerately. You are shown what to expect, supported through the practical stages, and reassured whenever things feel unfamiliar or new. You have a friendly point of contact who understands your personal circumstances, clear guidance through every single stage of this process, and patient, reassuring answers to your questions whenever you need them. Once you commence studying, that support does not simply disappear overnight. You can keep reaching out for support, advice, and reassurance throughout your course, so you never feel as though you are facing things completely alone. The aim is to help you stay motivated, keep believing in yourself, and continue making consistent progress towards a brighter, more secure future.

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Entry requirements

We know that worrying about entry requirements stops many capable people from applying. At UniUpp, we look at your potential, not your past. This BSc Business, Hospitality and Events Management path is designed to welcome learners from many varied backgrounds, including those returning to study after time off, so please do not rule yourself out too soon.

What you need to study with us

Entry requirements can differ, and the simplest way to discover whether you qualify is to ask us directly. Our experienced team will talk through your own personal situation, look at any qualifications or experience you already have, and explain your available options in clear, simple language. There is no harm whatsoever in enquiring, and absolutely no pressure to commit. Many individuals are happily surprised to learn they are eligible, even when they assumed higher education was no longer open to them. We are here to help you.

Eligibility

Uncertain whether you could qualify? Our friendly team can support you.

Confirming your eligibility is quick, straightforward, and completely free, with absolutely no obligation at all to take matters much further. In just a few minutes, you can take a confident opening step towards finding out whether this BSc course could be the right choice for you. Our friendly team will guide you through everything clearly, patiently answer any questions you may have, and treat you with genuine kindness and respect at every single stage.

English proficiency

Worried about your English? You may receive more support than expected.

Confident, effective communication truly matters in the professional world of business, and human resources, so a reasonable everyday level of English will help you get the most out of this programme. If English is not your first language, please try not to worry, because friendly encouragement may be available to help you steadily strengthen your abilities and confidence along the way. The finest thing you can do is talk everything through with our team.

Course fees and funding

For many people, worrying about how to pay is the main barrier to studying. Happily, eligible students may be able to fund this course through Student Finance, instead of paying upfront, making higher education feel more possible.

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If you are eligible, Student Finance England may cover your tuition expenses, which you repay gradually, only once you start earning above a certain threshold. Our friendly team can explain it.

Course fee breakdown

Study in a UK Campus Fee
Fees for New and Existing Students from August 2026 £9,535 (per year)

This course is eligible for funding through the Student Loans Company (SLC), which can help towards your tuition fees and other study-related costs. Submit an enquiry to learn more about the funding options available.

Please note: The fees shown are based on the intake you join (your course start date), not the date you submit your application.

Career prospects

This BSc Business, Hospitality and Events Management path is made to open doors helping you grow practical skills and belief that many firms value today.

  • Hotel roles guide busy guest service, each day
  • Events roles plan good meetings and guest days
  • Venue roles help teams, rooms and guests daily
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What will I gain from this course?

This BSc Business, Hospitality and Events Management course provides more than a qualification, building useful capabilities plus real confidence, that matter in work.

  • Practical hospitality and events knowledge plus skills that you can apply with confidence across a range of job roles.
  • Greater self belief, strong communication skills, and the good habits that help you to succeed in any working setting.

By the time you complete this BSc Business, Hospitality and Events Management course, you will have gained more than just a qualification. You will have developed business knowledge, stronger communication skills, and the kind of quiet confidence that helps you step into a workplace and contribute meaningfully. Just as vital, you will have proved to yourself, that you can make a clear aim, work towards it steadily, and achieve something you feel proud of.

What can I do after UniUpp?

Completing this BSc can open up several routes, depending on your own goals and situation. Some people choose to step right into hospitality operations, event coordination, or venue management roles, using their good new skills. Others decide to keep on studying, building towards more qualifications in time. And whatever you then choose, UniUpp can help you see your options and feel well supported now as you take your next steps towards a brighter future.

Move into hotel or events support roles

  • Hospitality Operations Manager
  • Customer Experience Manager

Go on to study towards a further qualification

  • Progress into postgraduate tourism or management programmes

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