What is Business Studies (Joint Honours) 

The business aspects of this degree will result in a graduate with the knowledge and skills necessary to work in, understand, and critically evaluate practices within markets, organisations and business management. The study of Business is the study of the integration of a range of fundamental practices of business including finance, marketing, leadership, strategy, accounting, corporate social responsibility, business ethics, and broad management skills designed to explore and enhance our understanding of how companies and industries operate and flourish. 

 

Business Studies: The course for you? 

You will enjoy this course if you have a core interest in business but would also like to develop and engage with either computer science or law. The business aspects of the programme will provide you with a depth of engagement and understanding of the various aspects of markets, organisations and business management.

 

If you are thinking of Business and Computer Science, then you will like to focus on problem-solving, using logical and mathematical skills and you will also engage with management and business subjects which will help you action these in the commercial world.  Computer Science at Trinity is challenging and exciting with a focus on innovation and cutting-edge technology. To get the best from the course, you need to be interested in developing clear logical ideas about situations and about how to develop algorithms for computers to deal with these situations. You should be comfortable using mathematical techniques to solve problems. If you are knowledgeable about computers already, to the extent of building them or writing programs for them, so much the better – but bear in mind, no prior knowledge of computer science is assumed.

 

If you are thinking of Business and Law, then you would like to gain an in-depth understanding in the disciplines of law and business and develop a critical understanding of both the legal framework of business activity and the economic and commercial context in which law operates. You will have the opportunity to focus on the many areas of overlapping interest between the two disciplines. These include the structure of companies and other forms of business organisation; competition law and regulation of markets; consumer law, labour law; finance and financial markets; taxation; the protection of intellectual property and international perspectives on law and business. This course is aimed at individuals seeking a career defined by the application of legal principles and management practices. The programme will provide you with a firm grounding in law along with strong management skills, enabling students to choose from a wide range of career opportunities or further study.

 

Graduate skills and career opportunities 

Students taking this Joint Honours programme are prepared for challenging careers in business and computer science/law, as well as positioning them for postgraduate study and research in either of these fields. Both government and industry have identified a need for more graduates with these unique combinations of these skills. Graduates of this programme are employed in a variety of roles and areas, hired by multinationals, such as Google, LinkedIn, Twitter, and by consultancy and accountancy firms, such as Ernst & Young, Accenture, MRBI, PwC, and KPMG, within the public sector and for small and medium-sized businesses. The entrepreneurial route is also popular and encouraged and many students have started their own business and won entrepreneurship awards as undergraduates while others have done so as graduates. Other students have pursued Master’s and Ph.D. studies in business and computer science  or law disciplines. 

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