The Bachelor of Retail Management (Honours) programme aims to provide you with the opportunity to practice and develop skills and knowledge highly valued by the Retail sector. It is designed to provide students with a comprehensive understanding of the theoretical and practical aspects of Retail Management.
Why Choose This Programme?
There are many positive benefits that a retail career offers while an office job doesn’t. It provides an interesting, exciting and rewarding lifestyle and varied career path that suits your personality, hobbies and interest. Nine of the world’s 25 wealthiest people are retail moguls (Forbes Magazine, 2012).
This programme will expose you to various retail areas to give you an understanding of the complexities involved in managing both large and small scale retail businesses.
What To Expect From This Programme?
This programme will provide you with core business and management modules combined with retail related components such as e-commerce, revenue and profit management, legal issues in retail, entrepreneurship development, buying and merchandising decisions, retail loyalty and events, store operations, store development, retail technology and more.
| Programme Subjects | |
| • Principles of Retailing | • Revenue and Profit Management |
| • Retail Marketing | • Statistics for the Service Industry |
| • Retail Location Analysis | • Strategy and Innovation for the Service Industry |
| • Managing Retail Operations | • Service Quality Management |
| • Supply Chain Management | • Research Methods for the Service Industry |
| • Retail Customer Service | • Contemporary Ethics and Corporate Citizenship |
| • Buying and Merchandising Decisions | • Entrepreneurship Development |
| • Retail Advertising and Promotion | • Research Project |
| • Retail Loyalty and Events | • English for Academic Reading and Writing |
| • E-Commerce | • Executive Communication at Work |
| • Loss Prevention in the Retail Business | • Personal Skills Development 1 |
| • Legal Issues in Retail | • Personal Skills Development 2 |
| • Contemporary Issues in Retail | • Personal Skills Development 3 |
| • IT Application in the Service Environment | • Industrial Training |
| • Economics in the Service Environment | • Bahasa Kebangsaan A/B |
| • Accounting for the Service Industry | • Pengajian Malaysia |
| • Principles and Practices of Management | • Pendidikan Moral / Pengajian Islam |
| • Managing People in the Service Industry | |
Internship Programme:
You will undergo a semester of comprehensive training in the internship programme. It has been specially designed to give you an intensive hands-on learning experience within a challenging work environment.
Entry Requirements:
• STPM or A-Levels or equivalent with a minimum of two (2) principal passes.
• Applicants with other qualifications are considered on a case-by-case basis.
Intakes:
January, April & August.
Duration:
3 years including a semester of internship.
“This programme will equip you with the right skills set and tools used by retailers to integrate different functional areas of retail, such as buying, merchandising, logistics, marketing, operations and computing.”