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Business and organisations are a vital part of modern life and global economies, politics and cultures. Studying them and the people who are involved in them can be rewarding in many ways. Apart from strengthening your intellectual abilities, taking postgraduate courses in business and management – and perhaps going on to achieve an MBA or MSc qualification – can enhance your career and contribute to society.

You may be looking to upgrade your qualifications and broaden your management skills. Or perhaps you’re preparing to move from a professional, functional or technical role into a more senior or general management position. Whatever your starting point or ultimate goal, a postgraduate business qualification from the OU Business School will give you that extra edge.

Browse this website and discover the wide variety of postgraduate courses in business and management.

Taught Masters

  • Human Resource Management
    If you’re a senior HR professional (or aspiring to be), this MSc will increase your effectiveness at a strategic level in today’s rapidly changing organisational contexts.
  • International Finance and Management
    A specialist MSc designed for accountants in industry and commerce who want to broaden their perspectives by adding international accounting and finance knowledge and wider management skills.
  • Management and Business Research Methods
    Advanced training in business and management research methods – ideal if you’re thinking about a PhD, or if you do a lot of research in a commercial or professional environment.
  • Management of Software Projects
    This MSc is designed to help computing professionals manage increasingly complex software systems within constraints of time, cost and quality, and to develop their project management skills.
  • MBA
    An internationally accredited MBA emphasising strategic analysis, interdisciplinary skills, intellectual stimulation and independent judgement. Ideal for practising managers aspiring to better things.
  • MBA (Technology Management)
    An internationally accredited MBA which supports the management of technological and organisational change in fast-moving business environments, and the management of technology to achieve excellence.
  • Public Administration
    If you’re involved in delivering policy, leading modernisation projects or supporting innovation, the MPA will help you enhance your capacities in relation to the particular challenges you face.
  • Strategic Management of Information Systems
    This specialist degree will enable you to develop your ability to effectively contribute at a strategic level in the field of the management of information systems.

Courses in Business and Management

See the list of all our individual courses in Business and Management.

Postgraduate research degrees

For information about postgraduate research degrees, visit the Research Degree pages.

Spotlight on Business and Management

International accreditation

The OU Business School is accredited for the high quality of its programmes and teaching by the leading international accrediting bodies for business schools – AACSB, EQUIS, CEL and AMBA.

Qualifications for success

Our business and management postgraduate programme includes a range of certificates and diplomas that you can study as stand-alone qualifications, boosting your knowledge and skills in all the essential aspects of successful business and management.

 

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