The Business and Finance (Top up award) BA (Hons) program at Northumbria University, Newcastle is a one-year course designed for students who have previously completed a relevant foundation degree or HND. The program provides learners the opportunity to top up their existing qualifications to a full-fledged BA degree. It covers a broad spectrum of business and finance topics to equip students with key skills and knowledge to manage business operations, understand and make financial decisions, and explore ways of innovating and improving business performance. The program combines theoretical instruction with practical learning, case studies, and project works that allows students to apply what they've learned in real-world situations. The graduates of this program may move into a wide range of business and finance roles in any industry.

Northumbria University (legally the University of Northumbria at Newcastle) is a public university located in Newcastle upon Tyne, North East of England. It has been a university since 1992, but has its origins in the Rutherford College, founded in 1877.

Northumbria University is primarily based within City Campus located in Newcastle upon Tyne city centre and at Coach Lane campus on the outskirts of the city centre, London and Amsterdam. It is organised into four faculties—Arts, Design and Social Sciences; Business and Law; Engineering and Environment, and Health and Life Sciences. Northumbria University has approximately 37,000 students.

According to the 2021 Research Excellence Framework, Northumbria University was rated 23rd in the UK for research power (the grade point average score of a university, multiplied by the full-time equivalent number of researchers submitted).This determines how much funding is awarded to universities to spend on research activity and represented the largest percentage-point rise in market share since the previous exercise.The annual income of the institution for 2021–22 was £307.2 million of which £19.9 million was from research grants and contracts, with an expenditure of £308 million.

Northumbria was named the Times Higher Education University of the Year for 2022. The university is ranked top 25 in the UK for the number of graduates entering professional employment, with nine out of ten graduates working or studying six months after graduation.