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2023 entry application deadlines

For courses starting in 2023 (and for deferred applications), your application should be with us at UCAS by one of these dates – depending on what courses you apply for. If y...

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2023 entry application deadlines

For courses starting in 2023 (and for deferred applications), your application should be with us at UCAS by one of these dates – depending on what courses you apply for. If your completed application – including all your personal details and your academic reference – is submitted by the deadline, it is guaranteed to be considered.

15 October 2022 for 2023 entry at 18:00 (UK time) – any course at the universities of Oxford and Cambridge, or for most courses in medicine, veterinary medicine/science, and dentistry. You can add choices with a different deadline later, but don’t forget you can only have five choices in total.

25 January 2023 for 2023 entry at 18:00 (UK time) – for the majority of courses.

Some course providers require additional admissions tests to be taken alongside the UCAS application, and these may have a deadline. Find out more about these tests.

Check course information in the search tool to see which deadline applies to you at the application weblink below.

Apply as soon as possible: Student funding arrangements mean that as offers are made and places fill up, some courses may only have vacancies for students from certain locations. It’s therefore really important that you apply for your chosen courses by the appropriate deadlines mentioned above, as not all courses will have places for all students.

Start date: September 2023.

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Make your mark in the multibillion-pound food and drinks industry by focusing on the core business management skills needed for commercial success.

Summary
Did you know Food and Drink is a £5 billion industry in Northern Ireland and is...

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Make your mark in the multibillion-pound food and drinks industry by focusing on the core business management skills needed for commercial success.

Summary
Did you know Food and Drink is a £5 billion industry in Northern Ireland and is the region’s largest manufacturer? With the government backing strategy to invest in sales growth to worldwide markets this course has been designed to create managers and leaders with the skills needed to respond to significant opportunities and challenges faced by the industry.

Covering the key aspects of supply chain management, consumer behaviour and marketing you’ll learn how to exploit market opportunities and understand the key activities required to create competitiveness in the food and drinks industry.

The course content has been specially aligned with the needs of industry. You’ll investigate and learn to interpret consumer behaviour, why do people make the choices they do when they shop? As well as cover consumer rights and law. You’ll also study practical elements such as supply chain and retail management, people management and accounting studies and get to flex your creative flare with media creativity and marketing. Develop business plans and conduct an e-business strategy. With content covering the entire supply chain through to retail management you’ll get a holistic view whilst having the flexibility to determine your interests in the varied value supply chain.

You’ll get the chance to discover how consumers shop and how that impacts future products and business using our virtual reality Consumer Insight Lab as well as look at consumer preferences for a product via our award-winning Food and Consumer Sensory Testing Suite (FACTS). Our facilities will help create a real-life learning environment so you will be ready to take your commercially-focused skills and apply them to your workplace upon graduation.

With the opportunity to take a placement year in year three you will also get the chance to put your theory into practice within industry. We have strong networks with industry and will keep you up to date with opportunities available in a variety of roles.

Whether you want to work for top national supermarkets or help develop and grow artisan local and family businesses to elevate them to the next level this course will give you the skills for success in the food and retail chain.

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You will have the option of a placement year in your third year of study where you can choose to work for industry and put what you have learned to practice whilst discovering your strengths and interests in the job mar...

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You will have the option of a placement year in your third year of study where you can choose to work for industry and put what you have learned to practice whilst discovering your strengths and interests in the job market.

The satisfactory completion of placement leads to the award of Diploma in Professional Practice/ Diploma in Professional Practice (International) upon graduation. Alternatively, you can opt to complete a period of study abroad. During this period, you spend two semesters in an educational institution, which will provide exposure to alternative business cultures and protocols and enhance your personal and professional development. Successful completion of the placement leads to the award of the Diploma in International Academic Studies (DIAS) upon graduation.

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With this degree you could become:

Category Management - retail
Commercial Management
Consumer Behaviour Analyst
Marketing - Strategic
Retail Manager
Supply chain management

Career options
The food industry is N. Ireland’s mo...

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With this degree you could become:

Category Management - retail
Commercial Management
Consumer Behaviour Analyst
Marketing - Strategic
Retail Manager
Supply chain management

Career options
The food industry is N. Ireland’s most successful industry, driving the local economy and contributing substantially to every area.

This proposed programme is targeted at people interested in a career in this dynamic and growing food industry and employees seeking to progress in their careers, in both food producers and retailers.

You’ll be prepared for a range of employment opportunities with organisations across Ireland, the UK and beyond with organisations such as Tesco, Lidl, Dale Farm and Moy Park.

The commercially-focused skills set embodied in the programme are in high demand by employers as noted from the industry engagement conducted; and this demand is anticipated to increase in a post COVID19 and Brexit marketplace.