Overview

The Business Administration Postgrad.Cert from The Open University UK it will help you to develop a good grounding in the theory and practice of managing and leading, covering the core functions and disciplines of management and helping you make the connections between them. It also provides a framework for a year-long process of professional development.

You'll be challenged to actively engage with a wide variety of ideas and develop a repertoire of techniques and approaches best suited to your own situation and management context.

Key facts:

Helps you select and adapt techniques and approaches appropriate to your own situation, and to reflect critically on your own and others’ practice
Explores diverse perspectives and approaches in different organisational, cultural and global contexts
Increases your ability to work confidently across sectoral and national boundaries
Enhances your ability to plan and implement change which will have real impact within your own organisational context.

Career opportunities:

The Open University Business School is one of an elite group of schools worldwide accredited by the three leading international accrediting bodies – AACSB, AMBA, EQUIS – hallmarks of quality of teaching, learning materials and qualification impact. It is home to almost 27,000 successful MBA graduates representing 119 countries.

Programme Structure

Courses include:

Economics

Finance

Accounting
Managing businesses

Managing in a changing world
Creating and sustaining value

Key information

Duration

Part-time
- 12 months

Start dates & application deadlines

Starting 2026-10-01 00:00:00
- Apply before 2026-09-11 00:00:00
Starting 2027-02-01 00:00:00
- Apply before 2027-01-08 00:00:00
Starting 2027-04-01 00:00:00
- Apply before 2027-03-12 00:00:00

Language

English

IELTS

6.5

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Credits

60 alternative credits

Delivered

Online

Campus Location

Milton Keynes, United Kingdom

Disciplines

Business Administration View 215 other Masters in Business Administration in United Kingdom

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Academic requirements

GMAT

Required

English requirements

IELTS

6.5

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Other requirements

General requirements

You will need a minimum of three years’ experience in a managerial, professional or technical role, so that you have a practical business base on which to build your learning.

Also depending on your previous qualifications, you can start this postgraduate certificate if you hold either of the following:

an honours degree awarded by a recognised UK university, or equivalent. Various higher education and professional qualifications are considered equivalent to an honours degree. Please contact us if you hold a qualification that you believe is an equivalent level to a UK degree, to ensure that it meets the requirements for admission.
our Professional Certificate in Management (S01) (previously coded C31). Both are now discontinued.

Tuition Fees

Tuition fees are shown in and the most likely applicable fee is shown based on your nationality.

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Non-residents

7340 GBP / year

≈ 7340 GBP / year
Domestic Applies to you

Applies to you

Citizens or residents

7340 GBP / year

≈ 7340 GBP / year

Funding

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