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Develop your skills and abilities, enhance your professional practice and boost your career with our MA Higher Education Administration, Management and Leadership. The programme is rooted in your professional experience and utilises a wide range of learning, teaching and assessment methods, materials and technologies. We have designed this online, part-time course to fit around existing work commitments. It is particularly relevant for those working in higher and further education management, administrative or developmental roles. You can also choose to study this course as a one-year Postgraduate Certificate or two-year Postgraduate Diploma.
Undergraduate degree or equivalent, in any discipline. Plus a minimum of six months of professional experience in undertaking administrative duties, managing a service or leading a project or group of inidividuals in their daily Higher Education activities.
Full requirementsTaught route: up to 24 months (part-time online)
Enhance your career aspirations and gain a broader understanding of Higher Education.
The course will enable you to:
You’ll be provided with all learning materials, including guidance for each module, eBook core texts, podcasts, presentations, articles to read, a discussion board and a wiki.
We also offer the MA Education which is a Master's degree designed to develop the skills and abilities to enhance your educational practice and effectively support students.
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Two compulsory modules:
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To get a full picture of how you can fit these part-time, online courses around your existing commitments, take a look at our course dates.
Throughout this programme, a variety of assessments are used.
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For those students completing the full Master's course, assessment methods also include:
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The course consists of 4 x 30 credit modules and a 60 credit project that run sequentially across three academic years.
Applications for this course are now open.
Apply for the MA, PGDip or PGCert Higher Education Administration, Management and Leadership directly with the University.
2022/23 Course Fees
2023/24 Course Fees (for courses starting on or after 1 July 2023)
By studying a Master's degree you could be eligible for a Student Loans Company Postgraduate Loan.
See full details of course fees and payment structures on the fees and funding page.
We have students from over 120 different countries throughout our campuses, with a dedicated team to help international students.