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WHY I LOVE
business, management, and administrative studies

Rabina Sultana is studying business studies at Leeds Beckett University.

Here’s why they love it.

I know how hard it is to decide what subject you want to study at university. On top of that, I knew what career I wanted but I couldn’t take the course for that career path! So, I had a back-up plan.

I chose business studies because it is such an interesting subject. Yes, you must be thinking, ‘business?! That’s so boring!’ – I used to think the same thing. But when I read up on the course on the university website, it opened up a whole new world for me. There were modules I never knew existed, and there were so many modules within the subject that genuinely interested me!

Business studies isn’t all about numbers or starting up a business. It includes real-life learning, such as developing as an individual, working with others, economics that drives your country, political knowledge that we all need in order to vote, environmental information in order to know how to take care of the world you live in – even as an entrepreneur, technological factors that have created a whole new way of communicating and inventing new devices and processes for the people, and sociological aspects that affect our day-today lives! Not to mention, there’s psychology involved too! Yes, you read right! I said psychology! How an individual comes to a decision, how entrepreneurs decide what to sell.

Business studies covers such a wide variety of aspects, there’s a guarantee you’ll be interested by a few modules in the course. For me personally, it was marketing and POMs (people, organisation, and management), because it’s about working with your team and how people purchase their goods. Also, another great fact is that, if you’re unsure about what career you’d like to have, business allows you to study such a variety of modules that you can later choose what field you want to specialise and go into.

Business is what keeps the economy going. Could you imagine yourself without clothes? Food? Phone? TV? (And much more). These are all to do with business. Without business, we would not have jobs!

What I am trying to say is that I made my decision after very thorough research into the subject and talking about all my findings to my teachers, family, and friends. I cannot stress enough the importance researching and talking about your findings.

"Without business, we would not have jobs!"

It’s always helpful to have a second opinion, and you may be enlightened by what you hear. Another factor I’d like you to take into consideration is, please don’t ever judge a subject by its name or the stereotypes you know of it. There’s a stereotype for every subject and they are never positive. Don’t judge a book by its cover, read into it, and then make your final judgement after you’ve reached the end.