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Honours Degrees (16)

An innovative and accessible introduction to the world of business, with the opportunity to specialise in accounting; economics; leadership practice; innovation and enterprise; or marketing.

Part-time:Full-time:Earliest Start date:
16-18 hours per week
6 years
32-36 hours per week
3 years
October 2024
Part-time:16-18 hours per week
6 years
Full-time:32-36 hours per week
3 years
Earliest Start date:October 2024

Provides an innovative and accessible introduction to the world of business and gives you specialised knowledge and skills in financial and management accounting.

Part-time:Full-time:Earliest Start date:
16-18 hours per week
6 years
32-36 hours per week
3 years
October 2024
Part-time:16-18 hours per week
6 years
Full-time:32-36 hours per week
3 years
Earliest Start date:October 2024

Provides an innovative and accessible introduction to the world of business and gives you specialised knowledge and skills in leadership practice.

Part-time:Full-time:Earliest Start date:
16-18 hours per week
6 years
32-36 hours per week
3 years
October 2024
Part-time:16-18 hours per week
6 years
Full-time:32-36 hours per week
3 years
Earliest Start date:October 2024

Foundation Degrees (1)

This work-related foundation degree has no academic requirements and lets you choose what to study across a range of subjects.

Part-time:Full-time:Earliest Start date:
16-18 hours per week
4 years
32-36 hours per week
3 years
October 2024
Part-time:16-18 hours per week
4 years
Full-time:32-36 hours per week
3 years
Earliest Start date:October 2024

Diplomas of Higher Education (12)

This diploma allows you to combine business management with Spanish.

Part-time:Full-time:Earliest Start date:
16-18 hours per week
4 years
32-36 hours per week
2 years
October 2024
Part-time:16-18 hours per week
4 years
Full-time:32-36 hours per week
2 years
Earliest Start date:October 2024

This diploma provides an innovative introduction to the world of business and gives you specialised knowledge in the essentials of marketing and understanding customers.

Earliest Start date:
October 2024
Earliest Start date:October 2024

This diploma allows you to combine business management with German.

Part-time:Full-time:Earliest Start date:
16-18 hours per week
4 years
32-36 hours per week
2 years
October 2024
Part-time:16-18 hours per week
4 years
Full-time:32-36 hours per week
2 years
Earliest Start date:October 2024

Certificates of Higher Education (10)

Improve your awareness of business issues; explore business contexts and functions, and choose options in retail, personal finance and maths.

Part-time:Full-time:Earliest Start date:
16-18 hours per week
2 years
32-36 hours per week
1 year
October 2024
Part-time:16-18 hours per week
2 years
Full-time:32-36 hours per week
1 year
Earliest Start date:October 2024

This Open University certificate allows you to combine business management with German.

Part-time:Full-time:Earliest Start date:
16-18 hours per week
2 years
32-36 hours per week
1 year
October 2024
Part-time:16-18 hours per week
2 years
Full-time:32-36 hours per week
1 year
Earliest Start date:October 2024

This certificate lets you combine studying the fundamentals of computing and IT with business, dividing your time equally between the two subjects.

Part-time:Full-time:Earliest Start date:
16-18 hours per week
2 years
32-36 hours per week
1 year
October 2024
Part-time:16-18 hours per week
2 years
Full-time:32-36 hours per week
1 year
Earliest Start date:October 2024

Modules (29)

This module is an engaging introduction to the fascinating and challenging world of contemporary business and management for all OU business and management qualifications.

Part-time:Earliest Start date:
16-18 hours per week
30 weeks
October 2024
Part-time:16-18 hours per week
30 weeks
Earliest Start date:October 2024

This module develops your English language and skills through authentic business case studies for communicating effectively in the world of business and management.

Part-time:Earliest Start date:
Less than 16 hours per week
31 weeks
October 2024
Part-time:Less than 16 hours per week
31 weeks
Earliest Start date:October 2024

Study how to make data-driven decisions using analytic reasoning, descriptive data analysis, hypothesis testing, modelling of relationships in the data, and forecasting techniques.

Part-time:Earliest Start date:
Less than 16 hours per week
21 weeks
April 2025
Part-time:Less than 16 hours per week
21 weeks
Earliest Start date:April 2025

Access Modules (2)

Designed to develop academic skills for further study, this introductory module offers insights into a wide range of subject areas, including science, engineering and design, environment; mathematics, and computing and IT.

Part-time:Earliest Start date:
Less than 16 hours per week
30 weeks
May 2024
Part-time:Less than 16 hours per week
30 weeks
Earliest Start date:May 2024

Designed to develop academic skills for further study, this introductory module offers insights into a wide range of subject areas, including science, engineering and design, environment; mathematics, and computing and IT.

Part-time:Earliest Start date:
Less than 16 hours per week
18 weeks
April 2024
Part-time:Less than 16 hours per week
18 weeks
Earliest Start date:April 2024

Short Courses (41)

In this course you'll learn the process of new business design and creation to deliver the right kind of value.

Part-time:
Less than 16 hours per week
Part-time:Less than 16 hours per week

A short course introducing you to key concepts within Chinese culture, with a specific focus on business and professional engagement.

Part-time:Earliest Start date:
Less than 16 hours per weekAugust 2024
Part-time:Less than 16 hours per week
Earliest Start date:August 2024

This course will take you on a learning journey to consider aspects of storytelling at the personal, organisational, and social levels.

Part-time:
Less than 16 hours per week
Part-time:Less than 16 hours per week

Masters Degrees (4)

Accredited course

Our MBA is a unique distance learning qualification from a business school whose triple-accredited status puts us in the top 1% worldwide.

Part-time:
16-20 hours per week
1.5 years
Part-time:16-20 hours per week
1.5 years

Accredited course

An MBA with a focus on technology management and technological innovation in a wide variety of contexts and sectors.

Part-time:
16-20 hours per week
1.5 years
Part-time:16-20 hours per week
1.5 years

Accredited course

This MSc enables professional development and practice in wide-ranging roles such as investment and portfolio management, corporate finance and treasury, consultancy and investment banking.

Part-time:
16-20 hours per week
2 years
Part-time:16-20 hours per week
2 years

Postgraduate Diplomas (3)

An OU postgraduate diploma, a valuable qualification in its own right and counts as two thirds towards gaining our triple-accredited MBA.

Part-time:
16-20 hours per week
1 year
Part-time:16-20 hours per week
1 year

This diploma provides an analytical view of strategic issues in technology management, equipping you for senior technology management roles.

Part-time:
16-20 hours per week
2 years
Part-time:16-20 hours per week
2 years

This qualification enables professional development and practice in wide-ranging roles such as investment and portfolio management, corporate finance and treasury, consultancy and investment banking.

Part-time:
16-20 hours per week
1 year
Part-time:16-20 hours per week
1 year

Postgraduate Certificates (3)

Gain a thorough grounding in the disciplines of team and project management, and the practical skills needed to be an effective, productive and reflective manager.

Part-time:
16-20 hours per week
6 months
Part-time:16-20 hours per week
6 months

This certificate provides a taste of advanced study in technology management, enabling you address the particular issues you face in your own organisation.

Part-time:
16-20 hours per week
1 year
Part-time:16-20 hours per week
1 year

Provides a grounding in corporate finance, financial decision-making, financial reporting, governance, an introduction to Islamic and behavioural finance.

Part-time:
16-20 hours per week
1 year
Part-time:16-20 hours per week
1 year

Postgraduate Modules (8)

This module examines the nature of corporate commitment to principles of corporate social responsibility in different contexts and its inter-relationship with human rights law.

Part-time:Earliest Start date:
Less than 16 hours per week
22 weeks
November 2024
Part-time:Less than 16 hours per week
22 weeks
Earliest Start date:November 2024

This module draws on a range of theoretical perspectives from both strategic and innovation management to produce a multi-layered, practical, approach to strategic management of technological innovation.

Part-time:Earliest Start date:
Less than 16 hours per week
24 weeks
May 2024
Part-time:Less than 16 hours per week
24 weeks
Earliest Start date:May 2024

This module provides an analysis of important concepts and practices in supply chain management, taking into account issues such as globalisation, sustainability and risk management.

Part-time:Earliest Start date:
Less than 16 hours per week
25 weeks
May 2024
Part-time:Less than 16 hours per week
25 weeks
Earliest Start date:May 2024

Developing skills in business and leadership

Choose from a variety of courses to develop key skills in business, including managing uncertainty, organisation design, people management and leadership.

Duration: 10–12 weeks Level: Undergraduate and Postgraduate