Business & Management

Study Business at East Durham College

Always dreamed of running your own business? At EDC, our business courses give young and up-and-coming entrepreneurs a fantastic place to hone their skills, develop their business ideas and learn everything about what makes a successful business thrive.

With our award-winning lecturing team, fantastic opportunities for students to thrive in business and loads of other perks too, if you're seriously considering studying business, there's no better place to do so than right here at EDC.

East Durham College's is proud to offer BTECs in Enterprise and Entrepreneurship in partnership with Edexcel; these are the first qualifications of their kind for 16-19 year olds in the UK.

Want to see what it's all about? Check out our video below!

Building Your Own Business

An essential part of our business course is you developing an idea for, and actually launching, your own business while you're studying with us.

What you choose to launch a business in, is entirely up to you; we'll work with you to develop your idea, enhance your current skills and bring your business from concept to life before you know it.

East Durham College students over the years have launched all kinds of different business ideas, including:

• Selling a range of eco-friendly, reusable straws
• Launching their own clothing brands
• Advertising companies selling ad space to companies around the North East
• Food and drink companies, including making and selling sausages and milkshakes

As we said, the possibilities are endless! If you've got a great idea, but you're not sure how to make it work, East Durham College can help

The National Tycoon Enterprise Competition

Going hand-in-hand with your own business launch is the National Tycoon Enterprise Competition. As its name implies, this competition, created by the Peter Jones Foundation, gives students access to some funding from a pot of approximately £3000 to set up and run your business while at college.

From then on, your business is competing against others from across the country - all colleges which are Peter Jones Enterprise Academies take part, and every year, the top student business from across the country are invited to a prestigious celebration event in London.

At East Durham College, thanks to our amazing lecturers and the incredible efforts of our students we have seen many students progress into the finals of the National Tycoon Enterprise competition.

East Durham College lecturers have also regularly won the Teacher of the Year award from the Peter Jones Foundation, so you know you're in good hands with EDC!