Higher National Diploma (HND) in Business

Course details

This is a two-year full time course, which requires college attendance four days per week. Work experience one day a week in a legal or business setting is an integral part of the course and is therefore compulsory.

Students are given the opportunity to study additional legal or accounting modules in each year. The balance between the academic and the practical application of skills gives students a unique opportunity to prepare for further study and employment.

Course Content

Modules Year 1:

• Finance
• Organisation and Behaviour
• Marketing
• Contract Law
• Spreadsheets
• Human Resource Management
• French
• Irish Legal System
• Management
• Accounting (Accounting Pathway)
• Taxation (Accounting Pathway)
• Further Aspects of Contract (Legal Pathway)

Modules Year 2:

• Business Environment
• Business Strategy
• Business Decision Making
• Research Project
• Marketing
• Employability Skills
• Work Experience
• French
• Company Law (Accounting and Legal Pathway)
• Employment Law (Legal Pathway)
• Financial Reporting (Accounting Pathway)

Course content may be revised for educational or organisational reasons

<> Career Prospects and Progression

Graduates can find employment in areas within the business, legal and accounting sectors in organisations.

Graduates with appropriate grades can progress onto year three of the Business Management Degree Course in Tallaght IT or Blanchardstown IT, at the end of which, successful students are awarded a pass degree and are eligible to progress onto year three for the award of an honours degree.

Graduates can also progress onto year two of business degrees in NCI.
Other Higher Level Institutions will consider applications based on individual results.