The Open University Business School

• The largest business school in Europe
• More MBA graduates than any other institution worldwide

Why get your MBA from OUBS?

Reputation

• OUBS is a faculty of The Open University, one of the largest and most admired universities in the world. Founded in the UK in 1969, the OU pioneered the flexible and fully featured form of distance learning that is so ideally matched to modern learning.
  
• OUBS supported distance learning is a blend of technological delivery with a high degree of individual and personalised support from tutors and advisers. It is much copied but never equalled.

Recognition

• The MBA program from OUBS is accredited by The Association of MBAs (AMBA). A quarter of all MBAs graduating from an AMBA recognised institution in the UK have studied with OUBS.
  
• OUBS has EQUIS accreditation, the quality benchmark for management education awarded by EFMD (the European Foundation for Management Development).
  
• OUBS courses and programs are also recognised by a large number of professional bodies, many of whom accept OUBS study as a route to their professional qualifications (e.g. ACCA, Bar Council, CIMA, CIPD, CIPFA, Law Society, ICPA)
  
• OUBS graduates are recognised not only for the excellence of their academic achievement but also for the personal qualities that have enabled them to respond to the OU style of learning (time management, prioritisation, determination etc.).

Suitability

• MBA study with OUBS is ideally suited to a professional lifestyle. It is not an e-learning program but a blend of printed texts, CDROMs and online communication with face-to-face tutorials and residential schools (which can be taken entirely online if preferred).
  
• Study is based on action learning and is immediately relevant to your workplace.

Entry requirements

• Most MBA courses have strict entry requirements, usually involving a certificate, diploma or equivalent in management; current management experience; and a good standard of written English.