Mixing Business with Badminton

Mixing Business with Badminton

International Badminton player and Final Year student Sara Boyle, BA Business Studies, tells us about her experience studying Business at DCU Business School:

I chose Business Studies in DCU because I am interested in the business sector and I wanted something with a broad scope.  I always enjoyed studying maths at school so I decided to study something with a financial angle.  I like the broad base of Business Studies and I felt it would give me the opportunity to specialise more in the future.

DCU has a great reputation as a university that promotes sports and that appealed to me when I was considering courses.  The support I have got here has been invaluable for my badminton career.  I could be away two or three times a month playing badminton and I train Monday to Friday, morning and evening.  I’ve been able to split my final year into two years and DCU accommodating this was a huge benefit for me.  It means that the load is reduced in my final year and I can concentrate on my badminton career.

There are different workshops around nutrition, well-being, time-management etc which I’ve been able to avail of and which have been really beneficial to me both for my sports career and also for managing my studies.

I would definitely recommend Business Studies in DCU.  I’ve enjoyed the course and there were a lot of modules I found really interesting.  The social side of the degree course has been great – I’ve made a lot of friends here.  Outside of Business Studies there is a big focus on sports here in DCU, and I have really benefited from that too.