Postgraduate Certificate in Business Administration
Open University
Key Information
Campus location
Online United Kingdom
Languages
English
Study format
Distance Learning
Duration
6 - 12 months
Pace
Full time, Part time
Tuition fees
GBP 6,720 *
Application deadline
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Earliest start date
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Introduction
This qualification will enable you to make a real difference within your management practice through the active use of frameworks, theories and tools. 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 features of the course
- 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 a real impact within your own organisational context.
This certificate is the first stage of our triple-accredited MBA qualification.
Program Outcome
The learning outcomes of this qualification are described in four areas:
- Knowledge and understanding
- Cognitive skills
- Practical and professional skills
- Key skills
Curriculum
Course details
To gain this qualification, you need 60 credits from both of the following:
Compulsory modules
- Managing in a changing world (B870)
- Creating and sustaining value (B872)
You should note that the University’s unique study rule applies to this qualification. This means that you must include at least 20 credits from OU modules that have not been counted in any other OU qualification that has previously been awarded to you.