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Corporate sponsors and partners

Organisations who currently or recently sponsored staff on Open University Business School courses, or who have partnered with us in employee development, include:

  • Addaction
  • Airbus
  • Alzheimer’s Society
  • BAE Systems
  • Bechtel
  • Companies House
  • Croda International PLC
  • Cummins Group
  • Department for Work and Pensions
  • Deutsche Telekom
  • DHL
  • Electricité de France
  • European Commission
  • Finnforest
  • HBOS
  • HM Prison Service
  • IBM
  • IKEA
  • International Committee of the Red Cross
  • KPMG
  • Learning and Skills Council
  • Lifeline Kirklees
  • Logitech Europe SA
  • MENCAP
  • Metropolitan Police
  • Ministry of Defence
  • NACAB
  • NHS
  • Nike
  • Nokia
  • Norwich Union (AVIVA)
  • Pfizer
  • RAF
  • RBS
  • Roche Diagnostic
  • Rolls-Royce
  • Royal Mail
  • Sauer Danfoss
  • Scottish Executive Health Department
  • ScottishPower
  • Standard Life
  • Thales
  • UKTi
  • Wintershall AG

75% of the top 100 companies at any given moment are sponsoring their employees to study with the OU, because they recognise the quality of our teaching and they recognise the methodology for part time students who want to study and work at the same time.

Dominic Newbould

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