Enhance your understanding of business.
Improve your employability by combining business, enterprise and entrepreneurial skills with your degree through our four-year biosciences courses with entrepreneurship, which include a placement.
Choose one of these courses and you will receive the same grounding in your chosen subject as other students in those areas while also studying additional units in entrepreneurship, enterprise and business innovation.
Benefits of a degree with entrepreneurship
Graduates with skills in business and innovation are extremely desirable to employers who require their staff to be able to apply their specialist subject knowledge in a commercial context.
In the growing field of bioscience research collaborations, graduates with entrepreneurship skills are at a distinct advantage; they understand how to respond to challenges and succeed in the face of uncertainty.
Course content
What will my course look like?
You will take 100 credits in biological sciences and 20 credits in entrepreneurship units in each year for Years 1, 2 and 4 of your degree.
You will learn your entrepreneurship skills alongside other students taking a variety of degrees at the University. The entrepreneurship units will be offered by the Masood Enterprise Centre (MEC) at the Alliance Manchester Business School at the University, exposing you to enterprise and innovation delivered by academics within the business school.
Year 3 will be undertaken as a placement year (120 credits).
Placements
Opportunties in entrepreneurship
You will have the opportunity to apply your entrepreneurship skills in the world of work on a year-long business or research placement in Year 3, which may take place in the UK or overseas. This could take the form of a research placement at, for example, a biotech start-up, or as an enterprise placement learning more about marketing, accounts or production.
After this year away, you will come back to study for one further year.
Placements provide valuable work experience that will help you clarify your career objectives and give you an advantage in today’s competitive employment market.
Fees and funding
What will the tuition fees be?
Tuition fees for an industrial placement year are significantly lower than tuition fees for a standard year and there are additional fee waivers and discounts for some students.
Students participating in placements outside the UK may be able to apply for funding from the UK’s Turing scheme, depending on eligibility. Priority will be given to students from low-income households.
Courses
Which degrees can I do with entrepreneurship?
We offer degrees with entrepreneurship in the following biosciences subjects. The below links will take you to the relevant 'with Entrepreneurship' course page (2026 entry).
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You can choose from a range of study options when you study biosciences at The University of Manchester.