Events Management with Entrepreneurship BA (Hons)

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UCAS code: N822 112 UCAS points
  • BA (Hons) Events Management with Entrepreneurship, home applicant, full time

    • Home Applicant
    • Full time, 3/4 years
    • Pound 9250 per year
  • BA (Hons) Events Management with Entrepreneurship, home applicant, part time

    • Home Applicant
    • Part time, 6 years
    • pro-rata full time fee

What makes this course different

Events industry connections

Our strong links with employers, and professional and trade associations will provide you with a practical and outstanding student experience. They represent a range of business environments across the hospitality and tourism sectors.

1st in the country

Our Tourism, Transport and Travel courses ranked 1st in the UK in 3 categories including “Learning Opportunities” & “Wellbeing Support” in the 2024 National Student Survey. (National Student Survey 2024, Results published 10 July 2024)

Read the full NSS survey results

Career-focused

Benefit from events industry engagement in every module such as guest speakers, site visits, placement opportunities, competitions, field trips and debates.

Course modules

In your first year you will gain a good knowledge of the events industry, and the skills and creativity needed to plan events.

In year 2, you will look at finance, leadership and how to plan and design an event effectively. You can take these practical skills into your first events role.

There is a chance to do a placement, and gain real-life events experience.

In your final year you will focus on entrepreneurship in the events industry and how you can use entrepreneurial skills to identify opportunities, create unique event concepts, and manage all aspects of event production, including budgeting, marketing, and logistics.

NOTE: Modules are subject to change. For those studying part time courses the modules may vary.

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Your future career

There are many careers available to those qualified in the hospitality, events and tourism sectors. This events course is designed with a practice-based approach. By combining creativity, organisation, and entrepreneurial skills, events entrepreneurs can build successful businesses and make a lasting impact on the events industry. UEL is well known for our entrepreneurial spirit - we are ranked 4th in the UK for student start-ups and social enterprise (HEBCI 2022).

Industry links

UEL is connected to several trade and professional associations whose membership comprises employers and operatives from across the hospitality sector. These include: 

  • Meeting Professionals International (MPI)
  • UK Hospitality
  • Institute of Hospitality (IOH)
  • London Food Board
  • Royal Academy of Culinary Arts (RACA)
  • HR in Hospitality

Graduate employers

Our Institute of Hospitality and Tourism (IoHT) has links with a range of corporate bodies and entrepreneurship in the events and hospitality sector. With this entrepreneurship degree you could set up your own events planning business, or work for an innovative events company. 

Job roles

Roles you could go into are events planner, events manager, project manager and entrepreneur. You could also be an expert operative, supervisor, junior manager, creative 'intrapreneurs' and start-up business entrepreneur (niche services). 

With an events entrepreneurship degree, you have a versatile skillset that can be applied to several roles within the events industry. Your entrepreneurial mindset will also help you to explore unique opportunities or start your own business.

Explore the different career options you can pursue with this degree and see the median salaries of the sector on our Career Coach portal.

Further study

You could do further study with us by doing one of the following courses in events and hospitality. This could help you move into management and set you apart from other events graduates. 

Dr Alina Vaduva
UEL is a diverse, multicultural and inclusive place to work, where our passion for learning and sharing lights the path to knowledge and future success."
Dr Alina Vaduva

Lecturer and Interim Associate Director - RDSBL

How we support your career ambitions

We offer dedicated careers support, and further opportunities to thrive, such as volunteering and industry networking. Our courses are created in collaboration with employers and industry to ensure they accurately reflect the real-life practices of your future career and provide you with the essential skills needed. You can focus on building interpersonal skills through group work and benefit from our investment in the latest cutting-edge technologies and facilities.

Career Zone

This digital platform provides you with careers and employability resources, including:

  • Jobs board for internships, placements, graduate opportunities, flexible part-time work
  • Mentoring programmes for insight with industry experts
  • 1-2-1 career coaching services 
  • Careers workshops and employer events
  • Learning pathways to gain new skills and industry insight

Mental Wealth programme

Our Professional Fitness and Mental Wealth programme which issues you with a Careers Passport to track the skills you've mastered. Some of these are externally validated by corporations like Amazon and Microsoft.

Our Mental Wealth programme

We are careers first

Our teaching methods and geographical location put us right up top:

  • Work-based projects
  • Networking and visits to leading organisations
  • Support in starting a new business
  • London on our doorstep

How you'll learn

We offer traditional on-campus face-to-face teaching subject to your individual timetable (and health requirements). Students can interact and collaborate in person and online in any of these live-streamed sessions. Live-streamed sessions will also be recorded, so you can log in when you want, playback, and watch from the comfort of your home and while on the go. Lab, rehearsal and practical on-campus sessions are scheduled in blocks with online options.

You will benefit from industry engagement in every module, across all Hospitality, Events and Tourism courses. This includes guest speakers, site visits, placement opportunities, competitions, field trips and debates.

Guided independent study

When not attending timetabled lectures or workshops, you will be expected to continue learning independently through self-study. This will typically involve skills development through online study, reading journal articles and books, working on individual and group projects and preparing coursework assignments and presentations. 

Your independent learning is supported by a range of excellent facilities including online resources, and specialist facilities, such as edit suites, the library, the full Microsoft Office software, including MS Teams, and Moodle: our Virtual Learning Environment.

Academic support

If you need a bit of extra help with certain skills such as academic writing, English, maths or statistics, our Academic Tutors offer workshops, drop-in sessions and one-to-one appointments to help our students achieve their potential. You can receive advice and guidance on all aspects of the IT systems provided by the university from our IT Service Desks located on all three campuses.

Our Student Support hubs in Docklands and Stratford feature centralised helpdesks to cater for your every need. We also provide support and advice for disabled students and those with specific learning difficulties (SPDs).

Dedicated personal tutor

When you arrive, we'll introduce you to your personal tutor. This is the member of the academic course team who will provide academic guidance, be a support throughout your time at UEL and who will show you how to make the best use of all the help and resources that we offer.

Workload

Your overall workload consists of class and online tutor-led sessions, individual learning, and practical activities. The size of classes can vary depending on the nature of the course, module and activity. This can range from large groups in a lecture theatre setting, to smaller groups taking part in seminars and collaborative work. You will receive your personalised timetable at the beginning of the academic year depending on your course.

Your timetable

Your individualised timetable is normally available within 48 hours of enrolment. Whilst we make every effort to ensure timetables are as student-friendly as possible, scheduled teaching can take place on any day of the week between 9.00am and 6.00pm. For undergraduate students, Wednesday afternoons are normally reserved for sports and cultural activities, but there may be occasions when this is not possible. Timetables for part-time students will depend on the modules selected.

Class sizes

To give you an indication of class sizes, this course normally attracts 40 - 50 students a year. Lecture sizes are normally 40 plus students.

In workshops, you will be taught in groups of 12 - 15 students. However, this can vary by academic year.

How you'll be assessed

Assessment tasks are mainly spread across the year to make the workload manageable. Assessment methods include group work, exams and individual work including essays, presentations, case studies, professional development and practical activities depending on the nature of the course. All grades count towards your module mark. More details will be included in the student handbook and module guides. You will always receive detailed feedback outlining your strengths and how you can improve. 

We aim to provide feedback on assessments within 15 working days, although you will receive immediate feedback following many of our face-to-face assessments.

Campus and facilities

Docklands Campus, London, E16 2RD

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What our students and staff say

Robert Woherem
I really enjoy the process of learning and using that process of learning with excellence to fulfil the needs of students from various backgrounds in a unique inspirational environment like UEL."

Robert Woherem

Lecturer in Events and Leisure Management