About our business school

The Open University Business School is triple accredited (AACSB, AMBA and EQUIS).

For more than 25 years ambitious executives like you have been realising their potential through our innovative, practice-based courses. Their quality is underpinned by the latest leading-edge research and enriched by a global network of partnerships.

Our internationally-recognized teaching and learning methods take education right to the heart of leadership and management practice. Tutors are experienced business professionals, and because our distance learning approach allows managers to continue at work while studying, you can apply new knowledge and skills right from the start.

Over 80,000 people from more than 100 countries have already graduated with The Open University Business School, making us the largest management school in Europe. We invite you join them or to sponsor your staff to join them.

Our Values

We are transforming management thinking. We have have down the boundaries between the academic and working world with our pioneering and practice-based approach; what is taught one day can be put into action the next, what is learnt is embedded in practice. Our research and teaching truly challenge the way professionals and organisations work and learn around the world: we learn from professionals while professionals learn from us.

We are responsible, inclusive and accessible. We champion ethical standards, sustainable environmental development, and corporate social responsibility. We offer a wide range of support services to students with disabilities and additional requirements. We also offer opportunities for everyone throughout the world to realise their full potential, whatever their educational or financial starting point: we have broken the link between exclusivity and excellence.

We are driven by quality. We pursue excellence in everything we do, in our internationally recognised research, teaching and delivery methods. It is this commitment to innovation and continuous improvement that keeps The Open University Business School at the forefront of global organisational, management and legal thinking: we are working with business for business.

Our Vision

We are developing a truly global business school that makes the world a better place through promoting responsible values as well as value added.

Our Mission

We will deploy our world class learning approach to take business, management and legal education into the very heart of professional practice, enriched by a world wide network of partnerships, underpinned by leading edge research, and a deep understanding of how professionals learn and develop their practice.