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...to your life Our MBA will help you become someone who inspires achievement, encourages dedication and instils admiration and trust in others. Studying our MBA will take you on a With our MBA, the quality of your — Convenient: it lets you fit learning personal journey. One that will encourage experience is matched by the versatility around your day job and home life. you to challenge limits, cross boundaries of our learning methods: Our cutting-edge technology enables and change the way you think. Our MBA is you to study in your own time – at home, — Proven: our triple-accredited1 status puts designed to fit around your life and career. us in the top one per cent of business at work or on the move. By drawing on our vast experience, we enable schools in the world. — Affordable: with the option to ‘pay as you go’ in monthly instalments. you to study at the highest level in a way that — Highly regarded: our MBA is ranked as enriches your working life, without putting the 6th best online MBA in the world by — Rewarding: 82 per cent of our students2 it on hold – giving you maximum flexibility, the CEO Magazine 2016 and the QS say that they have experienced a salary coupled with convenience. Distance Online MBA Rankings 2016. increase while taking the MBA. — Practical: integrates with, and adds value to your day job, allowing you to apply your learning instantly.

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We are home to more than 25,000 successful MBA graduates. Designed for professionals keen to take the next step in their career, our MBA programme is highly practice-based, blending academic rigour with the realities of business. Our journey helps make a difference, not only to your career, but to your organisation – and your life. Our Business School is triple-accredited; by the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB), EFMD Quality Improvement System (EQUIS) and the Association of MBAs (AMBA). Such accreditation ensures you will have a globally reputed qualification of proven quality. Relevant and far reaching Our MBA is successful because of its relevance to your work. It works for so many professionals because it is designed with the highest amount of practical focus – and its international programme design Typical OU MBA class profile lets you apply your MBA knowledge anywhere in the world. Average tutor/student ratio 1:16 Our MBA comes to life in Average age 37 Average years of your workplace 14 work experience The best way to learn is to practise, which is why ours is very much a practice-based 36% female Gender programme – which we call ‘practice- 64% male based learning’. Our rigorous approach to constantly applying management theories to the workplace will “The OU Business School provides help you develop independent learning, and modules and qualifications that a critical view on the knowledge you gain. thriving business people can study Employers like our approach whilst they earn, allowing them to Our unique practice-based learning brush up on their skills and explore approach is endorsed by organisations new areas of knowledge, whilst across the globe. It’s why more than 40 per cent of our MBA students are sponsored by implementing learning outcomes their employers. into their organisation from For more information on how we work with day one of study to maximise organisations, please see page 22. business opportunities.” Theo Paphitis, Business Expert

Triple accredited Only one per cent of all business schools are triple-accredited, and with more than 25,000 successful MBAs we are by far

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The Open University is highly respected “Business men and women can make a real difference to their by employers which is why more than organisation’s strategy through implementing learning from the 40 per cent of our students are sponsored by their employers. OU Business School qualifications from day one of studying. Our online Business Case Builder tool can Having the support of highly accredited qualifications under their generate a fully written tailored business belt, gives employees the confidence and knowledge to voice case in three easy steps. Explore the tool at g o www.openuniversity.co.uk/mba-sponsor solutions and strategies that reflect today’s business practices.” to create a business case to present to Sir Gerry Robinson, Business Expert your employer.

If your employer would like more information Pay as you about The Open University and the benefits of sponsoring employees, then please go to www.openuniversity.co.uk/mba-employers. 27 28 Student achievement awards academic year. We continue to support and celebrate our alumni by recognising outstanding achievements to to achievements Here are what some of our awardoutstanding winners had to say about theirrecognising studyby experience. alumni our celebrate both and organisations and communities. support to continue We year. academic which have run for over a decade, are held to commend some of the highest achieving students fromThe OU the Business past School celebrates the exceptional achievements of its highcalibre students annually.The awards, Student achievement awards Outstanding Contribution to Society to Contribution Outstanding Alumni of Jeremy the Roebuck, Year 2014/2015 – because of MBA.” my been only has possible2000 the world. Every role since I’ve had life. It all the difference made has in with the organisation my changed because of that the way studying so means “The OU to much me MBA Dineen, of Student Michael the Year 2014/2015 for would say go “I it. Outstanding ContributionOutstanding to anOrganisation Dr Luke Alphey, Alumni of the Year 2014/2015 – experience themselves.” ofrange sources could anyone than knowledgeand from afar wider dramatically, bringing in experience “An MBA broadens horizons one’s more smoothly!” Things seem company. to my in flow period of significant transformation quickly successfully and a through It helped has to me transition else. anywhere study to want with get on and it. You will not procrastinate,Don’t just dive in

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