Undergraduate Qualifications

Curious about how businesses and economies shape the world? This fascinating degree blends business insight with economic understanding to explore the challenges facing organisations and societies today. You’ll study how businesses function, how markets operate, and how economic forces influence decisions – from local policies to global trade. Along the way, you’ll learn to interpret data, think critically, and communicate persuasively. Whether you're passionate about finance, sustainability, strategy or policy, you'll build the skills to lead, influence, and innovate.

Explore the dynamic world of business and law, where strategy meets regulation and innovation thrives. This degree equips you with the skills to navigate legal complexities, drive business success, and make a real impact. You’ll study core business and management topics, gain insight into civil justice and contract law, and understand how organisations function.

Ready to become a future leader, step into a new career, or even launch your own company? Our business management degree is designed to match your ambitions, equipping you with the knowledge, confidence and essential skills you'll need to make your next career move. You'll learn the building blocks of how businesses operate and the strategy and structure that lead to success.

This degree allows you to combine business management with French. You’ll divide your study equally between both subjects. You’ll explore how businesses develop strategies, handle risk and take decisions. You’ll see what’s involved in functions such as marketing, accounting and finance. Combining this with the study of French opens doors to French-speaking cultures and communities and can provide a key to the global workplace.

This degree allows you to combine business management with German. You’ll divide your study equally between both subjects. You’ll explore how businesses develop strategies, handle risk and take decisions. You’ll see what’s involved in functions such as marketing, accounting and finance. Combining this with the study of German opens doors to German-speaking cultures and communities and can provide a key to the global workplace. 

Learn essential business management skills alongside French, German or Spanish and gain an advantage in the global workplace. You’ll divide your time equally between both subjects, exploring how businesses develop strategies, handle risk and make decisions. You’ll see what’s involved in functions such as marketing, accounting and finance. Combining business with a modern language opens doors to other cultures and communities.

This degree allows you to combine business management with Spanish. You’ll divide your study equally between both subjects. You’ll explore how businesses develop strategies, handle risk and take decisions. You’ll see what’s involved in functions such as marketing, accounting and finance. Combining this with the study of Spanish opens doors to Spanish-speaking cultures and communities and can provide a key to the global workplace.

Economic considerations play a crucial role in shaping our personal lives and influencing social and political issues, from government policies and business decisions to international trade and climate change. By studying this degree, you’ll build a solid foundation in economic concepts, theories, and techniques that will help you understand real-world challenges and make more informed choices in your own life.

Ready to make your mark in marketing and business? This degree provides an innovative introduction to the business world and equips you with the sought-after knowledge and skills needed for success in marketing. You’ll delve into key marketing concepts, learn how businesses create effective strategies, and discover how marketing integrates with essential functions like human resources, accounting, and finance.

Some of the key questions in the world today require expertise from a range of subjects. Multidisciplinary study has always been at the heart of the Open University, and the BA/BSc (Honours) Open, or Open degree, allows you to bring together different areas of study in a completely flexible way to develop knowledge and skills. It's a degree with a difference. Free from the restriction of a subject-specific specialism, you can set the direction of your learning.

This CIMA-accredited degree will provide you with a thorough understanding of the role of accounting and finance/financial management within business and society. You’ll learn to analyse and interpret accounting and financial information and explore specialist areas like auditing, governance, law, taxation, and financial reporting. Alongside technical skills for accountancy and finance roles, you'll develop broader academic knowledge and skills such as critical thinking, reasoning, research, and creativity – abilities valued in many industries.

Computing & IT studied with a second subject can open career opportunities in various sectors. This degree combines computing & IT and a complimentary subject – choose from business, design, mathematics, psychology and statistics. You’ll divide your time equally between the computing & IT modules and the second subject modules. So, the name of your degree will include your second subject, e.g. BSc (Honours) Computing & IT and Design.

This specialist diploma is designed to provide you with an understanding of the role of accounting and financial management within business and today’s society to an intermediate level. You’ll become equipped with the technical skills to practice accountancy along with a broader academic knowledge and cover topics that will instil creative and critical thinking, reasoning, and research skills. These skills and the knowledge you’ll gain from studying this diploma can be applied to a wide range of business activities and prepare you for a variety of exciting careers in accounting, finance or more broadly within business.

How do businesses develop strategies, handle risk and take decisions? What’s involved in functions such as human resources management, marketing, accounting and finance? This innovative diploma is firmly rooted in your own experience. You’ll investigate how organisations think and work, how they’re managed, and the external world in which they operate. You can focus entirely on business management, or choose to specialise within the subject areas of accounting, economics, leadership practice, innovation and enterprise or marketing.

This diploma allows you to combine business management with French, German or Spanish. You’ll divide your study equally between both subjects. It offers a solid grounding in key concepts associated with business management and in the use of your chosen language. You’ll explore how businesses develop strategies, handle risk and take decisions. You’ll see what’s involved in functions such as marketing, accounting and finance. Combining this with the study of a modern language opens doors to other cultures and communities and can provide a key to the global workplace.

This is one of several subject combinations available in our Diploma of Higher Education in Computing & IT and a second subject (W42). With this diploma, you can specialise in an area of computing and IT and combine it with business, dividing your time equally between subjects. Computing and business have become closely intertwined throughout the world of work. You will gain insight into all facets of the world of business: markets, organisations, processes, strategies, policies and decision making.

This diploma will introduce you to core macro and microeconomic concepts and theories and you'll learn how economics helps your understanding of real-world issues such as government policy, international trade, business decisions, work and innovation. As you discover how economics and economies have evolved over time, you’ll gain a critical perspective on the economic choices affecting our daily lives and learn methods and techniques applied by economists in their daily jobs. You'll also gain valuable analytical skills, including applied data analysis, which are valuable to many employers.

This innovative diploma will introduce you to the business world and give you specialised knowledge in the essentials of marketing. You’ll learn how goods and services are bought, what this means for contemporary marketing, and how marketing works with the key functions of an organisation such as human resources; operations management; and accounting and finance. You’ll also learn how organisations think and work, how they’re managed, and the external world in which they operate. This includes learning about the ethical and legal responsibilities that businesses have.

Looking for a flexible qualification that lets you shape your learning to suit your goals? Our Diploma of Higher Education Open gives you the freedom to design your own multidisciplinary qualification from a wide choice of subjects. Whatever your reasons for studying, you’ll enhance your skillset and create a diploma tailored to your ambitions. Not only is the Diploma of Higher Education Open a recognised qualification in its own right, but it also forms the first two stages of our BA/BSc (Honours) Open. If you decide to continue your studies, you’ll already be well on your way to a degree.

This flexible qualification starts with you: where you are now, and where you want to be in the future. Taking a practical approach that’s grounded in your own experience, you’ll be introduced to the essentials of business and management, the context in which businesses and other organisations operate, and their common aims and characteristics. This includes learning about the ethical and legal responsibilities that businesses have, and the global context which impacts businesses of all sizes. You’ll also encounter work-based learning issues that are particularly relevant to your current role.

Learn key business management skills alongside French, German or Spanish and gain an advantage in the global workplace. You’ll divide your study equally between both subjects, gaining a broad understanding of business management and a solid foundation in your chosen language. In business, you’ll explore core areas such as marketing, finance and human resources. In languages, you’ll develop your understanding of your chosen language and how it’s used in different settings. Studying a language alongside business opens doors to other cultures, strengthens communication skills and broadens your career options. The name of your certificate will reflect your chosen language.

This is one of several subject combinations available in our Certificate of Higher Education in Computing & IT and a second subject (T13) – you’ll divide your time equally between the two subjects. Computing and business have become closely intertwined throughout the world of work. You will be introduced to various facets of the world of business, and you will explore the profound technological, economic, political and ethical changes driven by the digital technologies that surround us. On completion of this certificate, you will have the basis for further study, leading to careers supporting computer-related projects in a business setting.

By studying this certificate, you'll appreciate how economic theory helps understand real world important issues in areas such as government policy, international trade, business decisions, work and innovation. You’ll discover how economics and the economies have evolved over time. This will give you a building block towards acquiring a critical perspective on economics and economic choices for our daily lives. As you’re learning about income, expenditure, savings and investments, you'll gain practical tools and ideas on how to manage your own money effectively.

Ready to explore new subjects and lay the foundation for your future success? You can enjoy the freedom of studying a range of subjects that interest you with our Certificate of Higher Education Open. Design your own multidisciplinary qualification to gain a grounding in one or more subjects or use it as the first step towards a BA/BSc (Honours) Open or Diploma of Higher Education Open. Whatever you choose, you’ll develop a breadth of knowledge and transferable skills that can boost your personal or professional ambitions.