Minors: Future Skills Pathways - FAQs

Alongside your main degree, you can study up to 30 credits of modules in another subject area in your second and final years (60 credits in total). This new offer is designed to directly align with the needs of today’s workforce and the skills required for the future.   

 Our exciting portfolio of Minors has been developed around the skills and knowledge employers value in a rapidly changing world. You’ll learn alongside students from other degree programmes, building interdisciplinary insight, critical thinking, and a real-world perspective, giving you a distinct edge and
helping you stand out as a future-ready graduate.    

If you choose to complete a Minor (60 credits), this will be formally recognised on your degree certificate, for example:   

BSc Business with a Minor in Sustainable Solutions.  

Minors available from September 2026 include:   

• Applied AI
• Data Science
• Digital Cultures
• Education
• Innovation and Entrepreneurship
• Intercultural Communication (Exeter campuses only)
• Leadership and Management
• Sustainable Solutions
• Proficiency in Languages

For more information about  each Minor, please visit our webpage.

You will be able to choose the modules associated with a specific minor pathway during Module Selection, which opens on the 23rd March and can be accessed via SRS. 

Students on single honours and combined honours programmes who have enough flexible optional credits will be able to take a minor. If you are on Flexible Combined Honours, Liberal Arts or a programme with Professional, Statutory And Regulatory Body (PSRB) restrictions, you will not be able to take a minor. 

If you select modules on a Minor's pathway in Year Two you are not obligated or required to continue with the Minor in your final year.  

Minors will be delivered face-to-face with in person workshops, and with additional  material to support your learning on ELE.  

Minors would form part of your total 120 credits for each year. They would not be additional credits that you take alongside your programme. On a pathway you will study 30 credits in Year Two and a further 30 credits in your final year.  

Minors have been designed to support students from all backgrounds to take these subjects and collaborate together.  

Modules on a minor’s pathway are condonable, in so far that if you fail a minor module, you can still progress to the next stage of study or be awarded your degree providing the condonement criteria has been met.

Further information on this criteria can be found at the TQA manual (Chapter 8). However, whilst the minor modules themselves are condonable, to be able to be awarded the minor you will need to pass all 60 credits of the modules associated with that pathway.

This means that if you do not pass all 60 minors credits but still meet the university's condonement criteria, you will be awarded your degree but without the 'with a minor' addition to the title.