Work with our undergraduate students on a business project

By sponsoring a Final Year Project, your company can work with high-quality BSc Business students to examine your business issue.

What can School of Management undergraduate students offer you?

Our students work with charities, SMEs and multinational corporations locally and all over the world.

Sponsoring a project offers you:

quality research at little or no financial cost
fresh perspectives on a business issue from a diverse group of students
credible results and recommendations of practical value
the chance to raise your organisation’s profile among graduates and in the community

Working in teams of five, over an 11-week period, students conduct research into real-life business issues. They manage the project themselves and provide a detailed report and presentation. They're supported throughout by an Academic Project Lead, Academic Advisor and Project Officer.

Proposing a project

Get help on an area of your choice.

When you’ve identified a business issue, we ask you to submit an initial project brief using an online form. We will check the brief for academic and practical suitability.

Your project must be:

of practical value to your organisation
suitable for a team
involve significant research

Throughout the project, you will need to:

join your team for a one hour online launch meeting in February to introduce yourselves and expand on your project brief
maintain regular contact with your project team and arrange cover if you become unavailable
listen to the students’ presentation at the end of the project in April
pay for any travel or project expenses
cooperate with reasonable information requests

Examples of project topics

Recent project topics have included:

the impact of AI on business
enhancing customer experience
research into new markets
assessing the impact of new legislation
streamlining systems
sustainability

If you have an idea for a project, we’d love to hear from you. Email the Project Officer at ugprojects@management.bath.ac.uk to discuss your proposal and for more information.

Quality research from leading students

Top 5 for Business and Management in The Guardian University Guide 2026, our BSc Business students are among the best in the UK. Find out more about our rankings.

All BSc Business students do a Final Year Project running from February until April/May. Project teams comprise of students who will have completed two six-month work placements as part of their course. Each project team will bring a range of academic specialisms, business experience and, in some cases, languages.

We teach our students to conduct research to high ethical and professional standards. All data, information and research results will remain confidential.

Sponsor testimonials

Read how our business partners have benefitted from working with us.

‘Put aside any reservations regarding the value to your business – our student cohort took a real business issue and in 11 weeks delivered a quality and realisable solution.’
Neil Weaver, Bombiix Limited

‘It was a fantastic experience. The whole process was very well managed and the insights we received genuinely helpful – we have already made some changes to our business off the back of the project.’
Lucy Collins, Web Usability

‘I would definitely recommend sponsoring a Final Year Project. The team were engaged, professional and fantastic to work with throughout. They produced a high-quality output and final presentation that directly added value to our business!’
Jacob Fries, Deliveroo

‘The team were a pleasure to work with and brought fresh perspectives and ideas that we have already begun to implement. We greatly valued the opportunity to support their development.’
Chris Harris, Mary Shelley’s House of Frankenstein