Discover how The Open University can help you
- Courses that fit around your life - Our courses allow you the flexibility to earn a qualification without giving up on what’s important to you – whether that’s caring or providing for your family, seeing friends or working - in fact over 70% of our students are in full- or part-time work.
Find out more about what it's like to study with The Open University
- Supporting your studies - We provide a supportive open learning community and our students tell us that the experience is engaging, immersive and interactive. Over the last decade, we have consistently appeared in the top three Scottish universities for student satisfaction.
Find out more about the support we offer
- Build on your prior study - You could already be part way to a qualification. If you’ve studied in the past, you may be able to transfer those credits towards an OU qualification, this includes study undertaken as part of your HNC, HND or SVQ in Scotland*. Our articulation agreement with the Scottish Qualifications Authority (SQA) means that we recognise all HNC and HND qualifications achieved within the last 16 years, including recent qualifications developed under the Next Generation: Higher National (NextGen:HN) project.
Find out more about transferring credit and completing your degree in less time
- Find your perfect course with The Open University – you may want to build on your college qualification or set off in a completely different direction. Whatever your plans, we’ve got you covered.
Find out more about the routes from college to an OU degree