The ability to understand and analyse the dynamics of social media, digital communicative practices, digital publishing and curation is both relevant and valuable in today’s jobs market. 

Graduates from this programme will benefit from knowledge of the technical, practical and managerial aspects of digital information technology within information and business environments. We live in a society which is characterised by its developing need to gain access to information. The designers and managers of information systems, whose role it is to satisfy that need, face tasks of growing responsibility and complexity.

Our Staff

Department of Information Management, Libraries & Archives lecturers are either qualified to PhD level or work in areas of the subject where professional practices are the focus. Many of the staff engage in research relevant to the theoretical and practical development of the discipline and the associated professions.

Students at the Aberystwyth Business School are taught by lecturers and other teaching staff who are active researchers and expert practitioners in their chosen subject area.

Over 75% of full time members of teaching staff are qualified to PhD level. Most are currently research active, meaning that students benefit from being taught ‘new’ knowledge in their chosen field of study as well as recognized literature. The School also employs part-time and full time staff devoted purely to teaching. Many part-time staff combine teaching duties with consultancy and business activities, ensuring that students have access not only to up to date research but the latest applied knowledge.

The BSc in Information Management at Aberystwyth University will provide you with a sound background for students who are interested in information management, but who would wish to follow a career in the commercial or public sector, e.g. business, health, finance, or government.

What will I learn?

The breakdown below will provide you with an illustration of what you may study during the three year degree scheme.

In your first year you will discover: 

• Foundations of Information Studies; 
• Fundamentals of Management and Business; 
• Fundamentals of Accounting and Finance; 
• Human Communication; 
• Marketing Principles and Contemporary Practice; 
• Data Analytics; 
• Principles of Tourism Management. 

In your second and third years you will explore: 

• Information Behaviour and Digital Literacy; 
• Social Informatics and Digital Ethics; 
• Resource Discovery and Digital Information Management; 
• Digitisation and Digital Preservation. 

Please note that during your second and third  years, you will be able to choose from a range of optional modules that will complement your core modules.