Welcome to your Offer Holder Hub! 

Congratulations on your offer to study at King’s Business School! This offer holder hub will guide you as you take the next steps toward a life-changing experience with us in the heart of London. Explore everything you need to know and get prepared before starting your new journey. 

Although this content was up-to-date at the time it was produced, some changes to courses and teaching staff may occur. 

Your first semester is just around the corner – and we’d love to kick things off by welcoming you to the King’s Business School community!

Join us on 8 July for an exclusive networking evening designed for King’s Business School postgraduate offer holders. This is your chance to meet your future classmates, chat with current students, and connect with some of our faculty members. You’ll get a real feel for life at King’s, ask any burning questions, and start building your network before term even begins.

We’ll have drinks, refreshments, and plenty of good conversation in a relaxed setting. Come along and take your first step into the King’s experience.

Sign up now: www.kcl.ac.uk/events/postgraduate-offer-holder-kbs-postgraduate-offer-holder-networking-event-8-july-2025

A Typical Week 

Here is an example of your timetable to give you a better idea of what a typical week for your course looks like. It includes a mix of lectures, tutorials, workshops and independent study time, helping you see how your schedule might be structured. 

• ESG Sample timetable.pdf

While your actual timetable may vary, this example should give you a useful insight into how you’ll balance your studies and other commitments.

ESG Consulting project offers students a unique opportunity to gain hands-on experience by tackling real ESG-related business challenges. As the final project of the ESG Management MSc, students apply the theories and skills developed throughout their studies to a live client problem. Working in teams, they enhance business research, report writing, and presentation skills while developing key professional attributes valued by employers.

How to Apply

Students must apply as a team of four and submit a 5-minute video explaining why you want to take part, your team’s expertise, and what you can bring to the project.

The ESG Consulting Project is subject to availability. Students who are not selected will instead undertake the Research Project as their required module.

Clients & Their Focus Areas:

• PPHE Hotel Group – Sustainable procurement
• Molton Brown – Meaningful social goal
• RepRisk – ESG risks
• Whitbread plc – Waste management strategy
• ADEC Innovations – Sustainability and impact strategy
• King’s College London – Biodiversity, waste, and energy efficiency

To support your transition into the programme, we’re offering a series of pre-sessional workshops during induction week and the first week of your first semester. These sessions will cover essential topics in finance, accounting, and governance, providing you with a solid foundation to confidently engage with ESG-focused business challenges.

We’ll share more details closer to the start, but here’s a preview of the schedule:

Pre-Sessional Schedule

• Day 1: Basic Corporate Finance
• Day 2: Management Accounting
• Day 3: Financial Accounting and Reporting
• Day 4: Statistics for Accounting and Finance
• Day 5: Agency Costs & Corporate Governance
• Day 6: Intermediate Corporate Finance
• Day 7: Behavioural Finance
• Day 8: Empirical Corporate Finance
• Day 9: Derivatives and Risk Management
• Day 10: Mergers and Acquisitions

At King’s Business School, postgraduate students on our Marketing, Management, or Entrepreneurship programmes benefit from a tailored careers programme designed to support their success in a competitive global job market. This support is provided by KBS Careers, your dedicated careers service.

From the moment you arrive and during the early weeks of Semester 1, you’ll be introduced to the careers consultants who support your programme. Via an induction session and tailored Career Masterclass, we provide essential careers information and a set of tools to ensure you can manage your career development successfully from the start.

You'll also benefit from personalised 1:1 career coaching, skills workshops, and employer networking events including Banking, Consulting and Investment industry nights. Students are also able to take advantage of our work-related learning offer, which offers business simulations and micro internships to help you build your portfolio.

Our KBS Global Careers Programme supports international students with visa guidance, tailored global job market insights, and in-country events in multiple locations, including China and India. In addition to our English-speaking career consultations, we also offer dedicated Mandarin-language career consultations and have a growing alumni network of over 12,000 KBS graduates worldwide.

With exclusive Business School access to industry-grade platforms for case practice, CV writing, interview practice and the King’s Business School Trading Room, you’ll be equipped with the tools, insights and connections to explore roles in consulting, marketing, finance, entrepreneurship and beyond.

Want to know more about life at King's or our campuses?

• Chat with current students on Unibuddy
• Go on a tour of the Strand campus
• Explore your life in London
• Sign up to an event (keep your eyes peeled for exclusive offer holder events)
• Find out about our other campuses

Here is a list of social media pages you may find useful:

• King's Business School (@kingsbschool)
• King's Business School - LinkedIn
• King's Business School - YouTube
• King's College London (@lifeatkings)
• King's Careers & Employability (@kingscareers)
• KCLSU (@kclsu)

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• Student Beans
• UniDays

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