Business and Management PGDip

Leadership. Strategy. Operations. Study the factors that impact businesses and learn how to achieve your targets. Excel your career, boost your confidence, and prepare for success with our PGDip Business and Management.

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Overview

Course length:	1 year full-time 2 years part-time
Start dates:	September 2025
Location:	Edge Hill University
Example offers:	2:2 or above (or equivalent) in subject other than business and management. View full entry criteria
Subject(s):	Business Management
Faculty:	Arts and Sciences
Department:	Business School

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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. Use your new knowledge to make better business decisions and achieve your objectives.

You’ll work alongside experts in our Business School. We’ll teach you effective ways to manage people and operations. At the same time, you’ll develop advanced skills in research, business analysis and strategic planning. You’ll also pick an optional module in international finance, brand management, entrepreneurship or human resources.

You’ll leave us with an impressive set of transferable skills and an invaluable management toolkit to boost your employability across the private, public and not-for-profit sectors.

What you'll 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.

In today’s fast-changing digital world, managers need to understand the impact of new technology on the workforce. You’ll look at training, wellbeing and changes in work practices. Get a handle on business strategy too. You’ll study key business theory, and we’ll teach you essential analytic and planning tools and techniques.

Success or failure often depends on the customer experience. You’ll see how strategic operations and project management are necessary for new products and services.

Compulsory modules:

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International Strategic Management focuses on the analysis, application and implementation of strategic management theories and concepts across a range of organisations, competitive environments and different industries. Examining the internal controls and mechanisms that can influence the successful generation, implementation and execution of an organisation’s strategic plan, the module will develop your knowledge of strategic management and enable you to demonstrate and apply integrated strategies such as internal auditing, market penetration, marketing development, product development and corporate governance. This theoretical application of strategic management tools and techniques will enable you to critically analyse an organisation’s internal environment to enhance its competitive position and future strategic direction. You will develop the skills and techniques required to strategically re-engineer an organisation’s internal dynamic, with the vision to capitalise upon ever-changing business environments.

Module code: BUS4048

Credits: 20

Assessment

100% Coursework

Leading, Managing and Developing People recognises that, in the new digital society, effective leadership and human resource management are fundamental to any contemporary organisation adapting to technological disruption and economic uncertainty. The present economic and social context in which organisations operate will transform tasks, jobs and skills to the extent that long-standing jobs may be eliminated and replaced by jobs-for-tomorrow. According to the World Economic Forum report (2020), it is estimated that there will be a shift in the division of labour between humans and machines and an increase in the level of work process digitisation, including the expansion of remote working practices. This new context of work raises the need to reskill or upskill existing workers, while other issues such as labour productivity and employee wellbeing also require consideration. By focusing on effective leadership and human resource management, this module will enhance your knowledge and understanding of leading, managing and developing people to help them adapt to change and the future of work in the new digital society.

Module code: BUS4046

Credits: 20

Assessment

100% Coursework

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International Finance and Investment equips you with a range of analytical skills and knowledge around recent global financial issues and crises, as well as making investment decisions in global financial markets. The module examines the causes and consequences of the global financial crisis and highlights both theoretical and empirical developments in the determination of foreign exchange rates. You will also assess monetary unions in Europe, and potentially elsewhere, and discuss the issues relevant to making investment decisions in a global context.

Module code: BUS4030

Credits: 20

Assessment

50% Coursework

50% Exam

How you'll study

You will study the Postgraduate Diploma across the autumn and spring semesters in one academic year as a full-time student or two academic years as a part-time student.

The programme will be delivered using a combination of lectures, seminars, tutorials, practical classes and workshops, alongside extensive online activities and guided independent study.

Face-to-face classes will typically take place in three-hour blocks in the afternoon and/or evening for nine hours per week for full-time students. You will be encouraged to apply your theoretical learning to real-life organisations.

How you'll be assessed

The programme combines several different forms of assessment to test intellectual development, vocational capability, and critical thinking. Coursework often involves both individual and group-based tasks. Case studies and problem-solving exercises are used, requiring the completion of a variety of written tasks, reports and project work.

Who will be teaching you

Edge Hill Business School is home to a thriving research community, hosts a growing international partnership portfolio, and is a member of AACSB International (The Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business), the world’s largest management education network.

All our staff are passionate about student learning and development. The degree is delivered by specialists in economics, marketing, human resource management, e-commerce and small and medium sized enterprises, among others. The team includes active researchers who publish in academic journals, as well as academically and professionally qualified staff. All team members are people with an energy and enthusiasm for their subject areas.

You can expect to receive your timetable at enrolment. Please note that while we make every effort to ensure that timetables are as student-friendly as possible, scheduled teaching can take place on any day or evening of the week.

Where your course includes optional modules, these are to provide an element of choice within the course curriculum. The availability of optional modules may vary from year to year and will be subject to minimum student numbers being achieved. This means that the availability of specific optional modules cannot be guaranteed. Optional module selection may also be affected by timetabling requirements. Some restrictions on optional module choice or combinations of optional modules may apply.

Entry criteria

Entry requirements (2025 / 2026)

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.

How to apply

There is an online application process for this course.

Please choose the application form for your preferred intake date and mode of study

Should you accept an offer of a place to study with us and formally enrol as a student, you will be subject to the provisions of the regulations, rules, codes, conditions and policies which apply to our students. These are available at www.edgehill.ac.uk/studentterms.

Facilities

A stunning £8m building provides state-of-the-art teaching and learning facilities for students in Edge Hill Business School.

The three-storey building offers a 100-seat lecture theatre and modern seminar and meeting rooms. There are also social learning areas which encourage a more informal and interactive style of learning, in addition to an attractive roof garden and atrium.

Where you'll study

Finance

Tuition fees

£6,120

a year

£51 per credit

for 120 credits

The University may administer a small inflationary rise in tuition fees, in line with Government policy, in subsequent academic years as you progress through the course.

EU/EEA and Swiss students who have settled or pre-settled status under the EU Settlement Scheme, as well as Irish nationals, may be eligible for the UK tuition fee rate.

Your future career

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.

You can move into general management in your field or use the course to change industry. You can also work in organisational development or set up as a consultant.

Our postgraduate diploma gives you the potential to go into further professional or academic study. You can look at taught Master’s degrees or a Masters by Research (MRes) award.

Course changes

Every effort has been made to ensure the accuracy of this information, however our courses are subject to ongoing review and development. Changing circumstances may necessitate alteration to, or the cancellation of, courses.

Changes may be necessary to comply with the requirements of professional bodies, revisions to subject benchmarks statements, to keep courses updated and contemporary, or as a result of student feedback. We reserve the right to make variations if we consider such action to be necessary or in the best interests of students.