PGDip Business and Management

Program Overview

Business and Management PGDip

Overview

The Postgraduate Diploma in Business and Management is designed to provide students with a comprehensive understanding of the factors that impact businesses and equip them with the skills and knowledge necessary to achieve their targets. The program is ideal for individuals who want to excel in their careers, boost their confidence, and prepare for success.

What you'll study

The program covers a range of topics, including:

• Creating and Managing the Global Value Chain
• Fundamentals of the Business Environment
• International Strategic Management
• Leading, Managing and Developing People
• Organisational Research
• One of the following optional modules:
  • Critical Perspectives on Managing Human Resources
  • International Finance and Investment
  • Strategic Brand Management
  • The Innovation Process: Creation to Implementation

How you'll study

The program is delivered using a combination of lectures, seminars, tutorials, practical classes, and workshops, alongside extensive online activities and guided independent study. Face-to-face classes typically take place in three-hour blocks in the afternoon and/or evening for nine hours per week for full-time students.

How you'll be assessed

The program combines several different forms of assessment to test intellectual development, vocational capability, and critical thinking. Coursework often involves both individual and group-based tasks. Case studies and problem-solving exercises are used, requiring the completion of a variety of written tasks, reports, and project work.

Who will be teaching you

The program is delivered by specialists in economics, marketing, human resource management, e-commerce, and small and medium-sized enterprises, among others. The team includes active researchers who publish in academic journals, as well as academically and professionally qualified staff.

Entry criteria

You should have a degree equivalent to UK first-class or second-class honors (2:2 or above) in a subject other than business and management. You may also be able to join the program without a degree, subject to an interview, if you have appropriate professional qualifications or experience.

English language requirements

If your first language is not English, you will need IELTS 6.5 overall, with a score no lower than 6.0 in each individual component, or an equivalent English language qualification.

Facilities

The program is based in a stunning £8m building that provides state-of-the-art teaching and learning facilities. The building offers a 100-seat lecture theatre and modern seminar and meeting rooms, as well as social learning areas and an attractive roof garden and atrium.

Finance

• UK Full-Time: £6,120 per year
• UK Part-Time: £51 per credit for 120 credits

Your future career

You'll leave the program as a professional with in-depth knowledge of your subject area and strong leadership and management skills. This is a winning combination for commercial, third sector, and public-sector management. You can move into general management in your field or use the program to change industry. You can also work in organizational development or set up as a consultant.

Course changes

Every effort has been made to ensure the accuracy of this information, however, our courses are subject to ongoing review and development. Changing circumstances may necessitate alteration to, or the cancellation of, courses.

Program Outline

Careers:

You’ll leave our PGDip Business and Management course as a professional who has in-depth knowledge of your subject area and strong leadership and management skills. This is a winning combination for commercial, third sector and public-sector management. You can move into general management in your field or use the course to change industry. You can also work in organisational development or set up as a consultant. You can look at taught Master’s degrees or a Masters by Research (MRes) award.

2024/25 Tuition fees UK Full-Time £6,000 a year UK Part-Time £50 per credit for 120 credits