Business Administration (C66)

Open University
Postgraduate PgCert Distance learning 1 Year Business and management studiesEvents management

About this course

This qualification will enable you to make a real difference within your management practice through 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 real impact within your own organisational context.
  • Career Prospects

    Graduates from this course typically go into the following occupations:

    2431 Management consultants and business analysts
    1132 Marketing, sales and advertising directors
    7220 Customer service supervisors
    1150 Managers and directors in retail and wholesale
    1123 Production managers and directors in mining and energy
    1139 Functional managers and directors

    Course Details

    Qualification
    Postgraduate Certificate - PgCert
    Study Mode
    Distance learning
    Duration
    1 Year
    Start Date
    2025
    Academic Year
    2025
    Campus / Location
    Milton Keynes
    Scheme
    Postgraduate
    Subjects
    Business and management studies, Events management