Business and Health UCL

Overview

As organisations and companies explore new ways to support the health sector, the demand for leaders focused on business and health has grown. Merging the two essential fields of business and healthcare, the Business and Health BSc is a dynamic and innovative programme that enables you to become a business-savvy leader in this ever-growing sector.

You’ll learn key principles and practices in business management, which examine accounting, marketing, finance, strategy and entrepreneurship to enable you to become familiar with the core issues concerning planning, organising, leading and controlling activity in the context of health and healthcare.

The Business and Health BSc programme offered by UCL is designed to enable students to specialise and tailor their experience to their specific needs through a diverse range of modules and specialist routes: Health Science and Healthcare Management and Health Technology. 

Careers

As a Business and Health graduate, you will be able to pursue diverse career paths in healthcare and related fields. Graduates can consider careers in various aspects of healthcare management, such as healthcare consulting, healthcare finance, healthcare innovation and health policy analysis. 

Also, you will be equipped to pursue leadership positions within hospitals, healthcare systems, insurance companies, government agencies, and consulting firms. Graduates may also wish to consider a career within: 

• public health

• health promotion

• health education

• community health organisations

• pharmaceutical companies

• research institutions

• government agencies

• government agencies.

Entrepreneurship opportunities in the health sector are another viable option for graduates, as well as roles in the HealthTech and Med Tech start-ups and incubators, with London being one of the global centres of health, business and finance.