The topic of business lets me focus on
any business because it applies to the
entire world and every person that has a
job and I can focus on gigantic
corporations or I can look at something
closer to home like the local shops in
town because business and money always
goes from the top down and affects every
person on the scale. I chose the RAU
because it's full of very like-minded
people. I didn't know what I wanted to do
until I came here. I don't think I could
probably fit much more into my schedule
in terms of getting extra-curricular
things and talks and everything and
it's really nice being in the country
and not being in a city. A lot of our
students are looking for the
practical value that a degree provides
and that practical value leads on to a
career and leads on to earning money, so
we have a mixture of practitioners in
the department and researchers and
academics who all come together, because it's
really important for students to get
real-world knowledge. The staff have been
great, we have lecturers who have had
real-world experience. They are
successful entrepreneurs in their own
right but also great at teaching about
it. The lecturers and staff are really
supportive for the students. We aren't
left to struggle on our own. The staff
have been brilliant both academically and
sort of pastoral as well. You can literally just go
to their office, knock on the door and they know your name and they'll go grab you a coffee and it's
brilliant. I think within the School of
Business we have fantastic links to
industry and we bring guest speakers in
to come and talk to our students. We have
a wonderful program of extra curricular
work that we do with them. it's
encouraged to pick up placements and
they have a specialist department at the
careers hub to help you find placements
or after University jobs. They like to
spring little surprises on you so that
could be anything from "ok guys, you've
got to give us a 5 minute pitch on how
to sell the next computer product", from
doing that for the last three years I
picked up how to do it pretty well.
Students will gain incredible business
skills which they can
put into practice whether that's
employability skills for the future or
whether it's creating strong foundations
of a business. I've loved the
Entrepreneurship module. Lecturers from
their business backgrounds have been so,
so helpful. Those skills will be how to pitch,
plan, develop business ideas, develop
products. Every business wants an
employee that can do that. Students who
study on the business program at the RAU go off into a lot of different areas.
Obviously we have those students who
choose start-up as a route but we also
students who go and work in corporates
as well as farming and agriculture more
generally. Studying an MBA at the RAU has
definitely helped my career and it just
gave me the confidence and it opens up
this new career path for me. I'm really,
really glad I came here I've had the
best experience with the best lecturers
and best people that I could have met. Overall
it's just a really nice environment.
