PGDip Business and Management at Edge Hill University

Programme overview

Whatever your background, this is your chance to find your place in the business world. Get the management theory, tools and techniques you need to become an innovative and future-focused leader on this PGDip Business and Management. Examine the influences that affect business success, then uncover the impact of society, new technology, and a company’s inner workings.

What you will study

Every business has an internal environment as well as being part of the wider world. Your studies will help you untangle the complex web of internal and external factors that affect a company’s growth. Study the core aspects of business and management and then add your choice of an optional module in human resources, international finance, branding or innovation depending on your own interests. Compulsory modules include Creating and Managing the Global Value Chain; Fundamentals of the Business Environment; International Strategic Management; Leading, Managing and Developing People; Organisational Research; Critical Perspectives on Managing Human Resources; International Finance and Investment; Strategic Brand Management; The Innovation Process: Creation to Implementation.

Career pathways

You’ll leave our PGDip Business and Management course as a professional who has in-depth knowledge of your subject area and strong leadership and management skills. This is a winning combination for commercial, third sector and public-sector management.

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Application information

Entry requirements

Example offer: 2:2 or above (or equivalent) in subject other than Business and Management. You should have a degree equivalent to UK first-class or second-class honours (2:2 or above) in a subject other than business and management. You may also be able to join the programme without a degree, subject to an interview, if you have appropriate professional qualifications or experience. English language requirements While international students who are not resident and working in the UK cannot currently join this course, if you are working and resident in the UK but your first language is not English, you will need IELTS 6.5 overall, with a score no lower than 6.0 in each individual component, or an equivalent English language qualification.

Domestic applicants: GBP 6,360 a year (2026/27). UK Full-Time tuition fee Source

Intake: September 2026; September 2027

Duration: 1 year full-time; 2 years part-time

Apply through the official page: https://www.edgehill.ac.uk/course/business-and-management-pgdip/

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