Postgraduate Diploma in Business Administration
Online United Kingdom
Postgraduate Diploma
DURATION
2 years
LANGUAGES
English
PACE
Full time, Part time
APPLICATION DEADLINE
EARLIEST START DATE
TUITION FEES
GBP 13,440 *
STUDY FORMAT
Distance Learning
* total cost
Key Summary
The innovative course Postgraduate Diploma in Business Administration is designed to develop a wide range of interdisciplinary skills that you can apply in your own work 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.
Key features
- A valuable qualification for practising managers who aspire to higher positions
- Flexible curriculum to suit your professional interests
- Takes you two-thirds of the way to our triple-accredited MBA.
How long it takes
- 12 months - 2 years
There is an expectation that you will work with others in groups and teams in a way that promotes effective outcomes, applying knowledge and skills to deliver outcomes and upholding the highest ethical standards.
Knowledge and understanding
When you have completed your postgraduate diploma you will be able to:
- Demonstrate a sound understanding of theories and concepts applicable in managing organisational performance, resource allocation, management of people and leading organisations
- Manage complex situations in business and other organisations based on knowledge of both the external and internal context of organisations; generating social and economic benefit
- Develop long term vision, goals and direction for organisations and develop strategies to deliver the goals, including through appropriate financial resource allocation.
Cognitive skills
When you have completed your postgraduate diploma you will be able to:
- Critically collect and use valuable information and evaluate in the context of their application across different environments and settings
- Conduct professional inquiries in problem identification, and use and manage knowledge and evidence critically to solve problems and develop actionable solutions.
Practical and/or professional skills
When you have completed your postgraduate diploma you will be able to:
- Develop appropriate people-management skills and leadership style
- Devise and apply evidence-based approaches to management decision-making
- Develop as an independent and reflective management practitioner
Key skills
When you have completed your postgraduate diploma you will be able to:
- Understand the ethical implications of management practice and respond to ethical issues as a socially responsible professional
- Engage and manage in digital and entrepreneurial work environments
- Communicate effectively using a wide range of media
- Provide effective and ethical leadership that transcends functional perspectives
- Reflect critically on learning from workplace practice
There are now two routes to gaining this qualification depending on when you start your postgraduate diploma.
November 2019 onwards route
If you started with B870 in November 2019 or thereafter, including if you've previously studied any electives as a standalone module, you'll need:
105 credits from the following:
Compulsory modules
- Managing in a changing world (B870)
- Creating and sustaining value (B872)
- Effective strategic management in business and the public sector (B873)
- Finance for strategic decision making (B874)
plus 15 credits from one of the following:
Optional modules
- Contemporary issues in organisations (BB853)
- Entrepreneurship in context (BB851)
- Leadership and management of public services (BB852)
- Supply chain management (BB849)
- Sustainable creative management (BB842)
Hybrid route
If you have gained 60 credits from completing either of the discontinued modules B716 or BXFT716 you'll need:
30 credits from the following:
Compulsory module
- Effective strategic management in business and the public sector (B873)
Or, subject to the rules about excluded combinations, the discontinued module BB835.
plus 15 credits from the following:
Compulsory module
- Finance for strategic decision making (B874)
Or, subject to the rules about excluded combinations, the discontinued module BB831.
plus 15 credits from the following:
Optional modules
- Contemporary issues in organisations (BB853)
- Entrepreneurship in context (BB851)
- Leadership and management of public services (BB852)
- Supply chain management (BB849)
- Sustainable creative management (BB842)
You should note that the University’s unique study rule applies to this qualification. This means that you must include at least 40 credits from OU modules that have not been counted in any other OU qualification that has previously been awarded to you.
Details of the Final Study in the May 2020 route, which is no longer available to new students, can be seen below in the qualification regulations.