This page is about our 3-stage pathway to a Master’s degree in Leadership and Management featuring the qualifications: Postgraduate Certificate, Postgraduate Diploma, and Master’s degree.
For information about MBAs or other programmes, visit Executive Education.
Learners in our Leadership and Management qualification programmes study remotely, not on the University’s premises. Enrolling in these programmes would not enable you to obtain a student visa from UK Visas and Immigration.
Our full-time MBA is our only Executive Education programme where learners study full-time at our Lancaster campus. Full-time MBA learners are eligible to apply for a UK student visa.
‘Accreditation of prior learning’ is our process for awarding module credits for postgraduate (Level 7) learning you’ve done before enrolling with us.
Level 7 is a qualification level in England, Wales and Northern Ireland. Examples of Level 7 qualifications: level 7 award, Master’s degree, postgraduate certificate, and postgraduate diploma.
We award credits for equivalent learning: learning approximately the same as what you’d learn with us.
Examples of organisations you might already have an award from:
By showing us evidence of your prior learning, you could be made exempt from one or more modules.
This has two main advantages to you:
What you need to do to earn credits for prior learning:
You pay a fee for accreditation of prior learning. The fee varies depending on the number of modules you are exempt from. After telling us what prior learning you have done, we'll tell you the fee that applies to you.
The fee is £700 plus a further £325 for each 20-credit exemption awarded.
