On the Entrepreneurship pathway you’ll cover the key skills needed to build a successful business from scratch. You’ll learn the importance of successful planning, considering all aspects of setting up a business, and explore funding options from crowdfunding to finding investors. You’ll learn to pitch your ideas to maximum effect and see them come to life when you put on your own fundraising event. We’ll give you the chance to work as part of a team, teaching you valuable skills in leadership, interpersonal relations and organisation.

We’ll introduce you to contacts from local and regional businesses, including Bath Spa alumni who have set up their own successful enterprises, such as Cressida Bullock (Fun Science) and Ben Franks (Novel Wines). You’ll develop the core skills you need to excel in all kinds of businesses, and start to build a clear picture of exactly where those skills could take you. By networking and working with real-life businesses and organization, you’ll be ready to begin your own entrepreneurial journey when you graduate.

You’ll share ideas with other business and management students and peers from a range of creative courses at Bath Spa. You’ll be able to bring in modules from areas outside the Entrepreneurship pathway if you want to explore issues around a particular ‘theme’, such as sustainability or global affairs.