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Postgraduate Diploma
Open University
Distance/Online
FEB-25, APR-25
12 months
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Postgraduate Diploma
Open University
Distance/online
FEB-25, A..
12 months
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This innovative course is designed to develop a wide range of interdisciplinary skills that you can apply in your own workplace as you develop. You will gain a solid foundation in core management disciplines, including human resource management, organisational behaviour, accounting and finance, marketing and operations – learning to apply your knowledge to analyse, synthesise and evaluate a wide range of situations. You will explore economic, environmental, social and technological change issues; corporate governance; markets and customers; managing resources and operations; financing organisations; management and development of people; developing information technologies for application in business and management within a global knowledge-based economy, and development of appropriate business policies and strategies within a changing context to meet stakeholder interests.
You’ll be eligible for this postgraduate diploma by satisfying the following academic, work experience and language requirements. There are three ways to meet the academic requirements: 1: Bachelors degree with honours - You'll need to have a bachelors degree with honours awarded by a UK university or equivalent. 2: Bachelors degree without honours - You'll need to have a bachelors degree without honours awarded by a UK university or equivalent and you'll need to have completed one of the following: the discontinued OU module Managing 1: organisations and people (B628); three of our Business Management microcredentials; the GMAT examination and achieved a result of 640 or higher. 3: No Bachelors degree - If you don’t have a bachelors degree you'll need to have completed one of the following: the discontinued OU Professional Certificate in Management (S01); six of our Business Management microcredentials. You’ll need to have gained a minimum of three years’ experience in a managerial, technical or professional role, so that you have a practical business base on which to build your learning.
Students living in
Domestic
£13,440 per year
Students from Domestic
Fee: £13,440. The total cost of your qualification depends on the modules you choose to study. With us, you pay for your modules as you study them rather than the whole qualification up front.
£16,295 per year
Students from EU
The total cost you pay for your qualification is dependent on the modules you choose to study. With us, you pay for your modules as you study them, rather than the whole qualification up front.
£16,295 per year
Students from International
The total cost you pay for your qualification is dependent on the modules you choose to study. With us, you pay for your modules as you study them, rather than the whole qualification up front.