The Faculty of Business and Law offers courses and qualifications in law and business and management.
Business and management courses
The Open University Business School offers a wide range of business courses and qualifications. We offer Certificates in Business Studies and Professional Practice in Delivering Public Services, Professional Certificates in Management and Accounting, and a Diploma in Business Studies. We offer Foundation Degrees and Diplomas of Higher Education in Business, Leadership and Management, Financial Services and Retail Management. To complete the undergraduate programme we offer BA (Hons) degrees in Business Studies, and Leadership and Management. At postgraduate level we offer Certificates in Business Administration and Clinical Leadership, Diplomas in Management, and Management and Business Research. We also offer the MBA and an MSc in Management and Business Research Methods.
Law courses
The Open University School of Law has the largest taught undergraduate Law Programme in the UK. The Law Programme has been developed in conjunction with The College of Law. It provides a flexible full or part-time distance-learning route to an LLB (Hons) with optional tutorials, which are either held face to face or electronically.
Access to the Law Programme requires no previous study or qualifications. This attracts students from a wide range of backgrounds, of all ages and with different experiences. Associate lecturers are drawn from a cross-section of the legal community (e.g. university lecturers, solicitors and barristers).
To be awarded the LLB (Hons), a student requires 360 credits. The four compulsory law modules (W200, W201, W300 and W301) provide 60 credits each. The necessary additional 120 credits can be gained through credit transfer from appropriate study with other institutions (such as a degree) or by taking other modules offered by the OU such as W100, W221, W222, W223 and W224.