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BSc Information Management for Business

  • Are you interested in studying information technology?
  • Would you like to manage your own business or a large organisation in a few years time?
  • Do you see yourself as a leader?

If you answered “yes” to one or more of these questions then UCL’s new IMB degree is the programme for you. In close collaboration with some of the biggest employers in the IT industry - including British Airways, BT, Computer Associates, Ford, Fujitsu, HP, IBM, Morgan Stanley, Norwich Union and Unilever we have put together a degree programme with a unique balance of IT, Management and Business that is designed to ensure that IMB graduates have the tools they need to excel in, and lead, the industries of the future.

Watch the e-skills UK video about the creation of this IMB degree here

The course specifically aims to:

  • Provide students with a broad background of business operations, procedures & culture applicable to a career in an IT environment
  • Equip students with sufficient technical knowledge to play a key management role in an IT related environment
  • Encourage students to develop an innovative and entrepreneurial approach to grasping business opportunities
  • Develop both personal and inter-personal skills to enable the students to work closely and communicate with employees in non-IT related areas of an organisation
  • Provide students with a set of problem-solving and modelling skills appropriate to IT related business operations
  • Enable the students to play a management role in an IT project
  • Provide the students with business experience in a project oriented environment

    and here's another e-skills UK video that extolls the virtues of a career in IT

Successful applicants for IMB are likely to have followed courses in ICT, science, technology, mathematics or business achieving at the equivalent of at least ABB at A level. Candidates with alternative qualifications or equivalent experience may be accepted, subject to review.

All applicants whose first language is not English must be able to provide evidence that their spoken and written command of the English language is adequate. UCL's preferred English language qualification is the International English Language Testing System (IELTS). More details

Please click here for the course brochure

For further information or to discuss the course, please contact:

Richard Pettinger, the IMB Course Director
T: +44 (0)20 3108 1024, E: r.pettinger@ucl.ac.uk

Pearl Ashaley, the Undergraduate Administrator
T: +44 (0)203 108 1015, E: imb-info@ucl.ac.uk