The principal UK degree exploring how geography shapes business, from global supply chains and labour markets to the environmental pressures reshaping economies and infrastructure.

Our BSc Geography with Business Management combines the critical perspectives and analytical approaches of economic and political geography with the management knowledge needed to navigate an increasingly uncertain world. You will examine how global trade, infrastructure, labour markets, finance and environmental change shape contemporary business practice, while developing an understanding of the organisational strategies used to respond to these challenges.

Navigating Economic and Environmental Change

The BSc in Geography with Business Management examines how organisations operate within wider social, political and environmental systems. It equips you to understand the complex geographical forces shaping economies and business decisions today through a hands-on approach to learning based in London, one of the world’s leading financial centres. In your first year, you’ll take a fieldtrip to Malta to learn how tourism, migration, infrastructure development and sustainability pressures are transforming local economies and environments.

Throughout the degree, and through an optional work placement module, you will combine geographical study with business management modules to develop strong analytical, research and problem-solving skills. In your final year, you will complete an independent research project on a topic of your choice, supported by an academic supervisor and drawing from the dynamic knowledge and innovative skill set you develop across the programme.

The BSc Geography with Business Management supports a range of learning styles and career ambitions. Our graduates pursue careers in consultancy, sustainability, logistics, business analysis and policy, as well as roles across private, public and third-sector organisations. Their combination of geographical insight, analytical expertise and business knowledge equips them to respond effectively, and creatively, to the environmental, economic and geopolitical challenges reshaping organisations and societies today.

Professional recognition

This programme is accredited by the Royal Geographical Society (with the Institute of British Geographers).

You can complete your Geography with Business Management degree in three or four years.

If you choose to study abroad, this will take place in Year 3 and Year 3 modules will instead be studied in Year 4.

Compulsory

Sustainable Transitions (Malta Fieldclass)*

Fundamentals of Management

Critical Geography: Environment and Society

Economics for Business

Introduction to Research Methods

Choose from

Global Development: Power, Inequality and Resistance

Planetary Emergencies

Reinventing Britain

Earth Surface Science

For full details on all of our modules please go to the online module directory.

*Fieldwork module. Flights, shared accommodation, transport in Malta and meals will not cost you anything extra on this compulsory module. Students are responsible for securing their own visas, if required.

Please note that all modules are subject to change.

Introduction to Marketing and Communications

Management and Organisational Behaviour

Advanced Research Methods

Economic Geographies

Society and Space

Belfast: Political Geography in the Post-Conflict City*

Boston Reworked: The Making of a North American City*

Science, Ethics and Environmental Policy

Health, Space, and Justice

Geospatial Science

Ecosystem Science

Geomorphology

Climate Change in Practice

Past Environmental Change

Colonial Lives and Afterlives

Urban Cultural Geographies: Encountering London

Geographies of Development: Institutions, Environments and Technologies

Geography, Environment and Development Work Placement

For full details on our modules please go to the online module directory.

*Fieldwork module. Fieldwork destinations may vary year-on-year, are subject to availability and depend on the module combinations chosen. Overseas fieldwork modules run in alternate years. Places are limited - if a module is oversubscribed, places will be allocated by ballot. Students on overseas field trips are responsible for securing their own visas, if required.

Dissertation

Contemporary Strategic Analysis

The Management of Human Resources

Regional Economics and Policy

African Cities: Development, Economy and Hustle

Latin American Debates

Kinship, Justice and Belonging

Epidemic Cities: Places, Populations and Mobilities

Critical Environmental Studies

Medicine, Politics and Global Health Histories

Climate Change and Climate Policy

Volcanoes, Climate Change and Society

Managing and Modelling Hydrological Extremes

Advanced Geospatial Science

Nature-Based Climate Solutions

AI Geographies: Materialities, Ethics and Futures

Critical Hope in an Uncertain World

Victorian London: City of Gold and Mud

Geographies of Home

Global Historical Geographies

Public Life of Cities

Study options

Apply for this degree with any of the following options. Take care to use the correct UCAS code - it may not be possible to change your selection later.

Year abroad

Go global and study abroad as part of your degree – apply for our Geography with Business Management BSc with a Year Abroad. Queen Mary has links with universities in Europe, North America, Asia and Australia (partnerships vary for each degree programme).

Find out more about study abroad opportunities at Queen Mary and what the progression requirements are.

Additional Costs

Compulsory fieldwork will not cost you anything extra. Optional UK and overseas fieldwork trips in the second- and third-year cost approximately £450-£1,500 (based on 2022-23 costs) depending on destination, including flights, accommodation and expenses on location.

Student Testimonial

As a student here, you'll benefit from engaging lectures, interactive seminars, and hands-on fieldwork opportunities that enrich your learning journey. Moreover, you'll become part of a vibrant and inclusive community of scholars, where collaboration, creativity, and critical thinking are encouraged.

Vish Singh Deora

Geography with Business Management BSc.

Teaching and learning

On average, you can expect to spend eight to 12 hours per week in a combination of lectures, tutorials, supervisions, seminars, workshops and practical classes.

For every hour of classes, expect to do a further two to four hours of independent study.

Fieldwork is central to all our programmes and takes place in London, the UK and overseas. Find out more about our field classes and how they help you apply your studies to real-world contexts.

All students have an academic advisor that they meet with regularly across each semester to review their studies and to check-in on their well-being. Read more about the advice and support services available to students in the Department of Geography and Environmental Science.

Assessment

Modules are assessed through a combination of coursework and examination. Coursework may include extended essays, short reports, posters, oral presentations and group work.

Students must also complete a final-year independent study project of 10,000 words, based on an original study of their choice.

Resources and facilities

The Department offers excellent on-campus resources to aid your studies, including:

undergraduate computer room

group study spaces

geography teaching laboratory

field equipment

environmental preparation laboratory

elemental analysis laboratory

river laboratory.

Full details on our laboratory facilities can be found here.

What our students say

Find out what our students think about studying geography at Queen Mary.

Geography with Business Management - BSc (Hons)

Grades ABB at A-Level.

International Baccalaureate Diploma with a minimum of 32 points overall, including 6,5,5 from three Higher Level subjects.

See our detailed subject and grade requirements

Access HE

We consider applications from students with the Access to Higher Education Diploma. The minimum academic requirement is to achieve 60 credits overall, with 45 credits at Level 3, of which 15 credits must be at Distinction and 15 credits at Merit or higher. Applications are considered on a case by case basis. Due to the high volume of applications, we do not make offers of study purely on the basis of meeting grade requirements.

Both GCSE English and Maths at grade C or 4 or an acceptable equivalent will be required.

Alternative offers may be made to applicants taking the Extended Project Qualification.

For further information please visit: qmul.ac.uk/undergraduate/entry/epq

Contextualised admissions

Our standard contextual offer: BBC at A-Level.

Our enhanced contextual offer: BCC at A-Level.

More information on our contextual offer criteria can be found on our contextualised admissions page.

Please note that General Studies and Critical Thinking are excluded from any A-Level offer and cannot be considered.

Geography with Business Management with Year Abroad - BSc (Hons)

Non-UK students

We accept a wide range of European and international qualifications in addition to A-levels, the International Baccalaureate and BTEC qualifications. Please visit International Admissions for full details.

If your qualifications are not accepted for direct entry onto this degree, consider applying for a foundation programme.

English language

Find out more about our English language entry requirements, including the types of test we accept and the scores needed for entry to the programme.

You may also be able to meet the English language requirement for your programme by joining a summer pre-sessional programme before starting your degree.

Further information

See our general undergraduate entry requirements.

Loans and grants

UK students accepted onto this course are eligible to apply for tuition fee and maintenance loans from Student Finance England or other government bodies.

Scholarships and bursaries

Queen Mary offers a generous package of scholarships and bursaries, which currently benefits around 50 per cent of our undergraduates.

Scholarships are available for home, EU and international students. Specific funding is also available for students from the local area. International students may be eligible for a fee reduction. We offer means-tested funding, as well as subject-specific funding for many degrees.

Find out what scholarships and bursaries are available to you.

Support from Queen Mary

We offer specialist support on all financial and welfare issues through our Advice and Counselling Service, which you can access as soon as you have applied for a place at Queen Mary.

Take a look at our Student Advice Guides which cover ways to finance your degree, including:

additional sources of funding

planning your budget and cutting costs

part-time and vacation work

money for lone parents.

Many of our Geography with Business Management graduates use their subject knowledge directly, in business analysis, responsible investing, marketing or political risk analysis. Others take their transferable skills into other careers, from social research to finance.

Recent graduates have been hired by:

Deloitte

EssenceMediacom

FDM Group

HW Fisher

Rand Surveyors

Worldpay Group

Discover what our recent students are doing after graduation and read more about their experiences on this course.

Career support

Geography with Business Management students benefit from dedicated careers support, including lectures and tutorials on career choice, getting work experience and presenting degree skills to an employer at interview. Find out more about how we have integrated careers support into all of degree programmes to help you to maximise your potential and achieve your ambitions.

The School of Business and Management can also help you find part-time projects in local charities and short internships in local businesses and start-ups.

The Queen Mary careers team can also offer:

specialist advice on choosing a career path

support with finding work experience, internships and graduate jobs

feedback on CVs, cover letters and application forms

interview coaching.

Learn more about career support and development at Queen Mary.

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