Leadership and Management University Diploma

Become part of a welcoming and vibrant community in the heart of the historic city of Worcester. Our campuses have excellent transport links, making it easy to balance professional development with your life and career.

University of the Year finalist

Recognised for our graduate success, we’re shortlisted for University of the Year in the Times Higher Education Awards 2025.

Overview

The University Diploma in Leadership and Management at Worcester is designed for professionals who want to strengthen their leadership skills and broaden their business expertise.

You’ll learn how to lead and engage teams, make confident, evidence-based decisions, and improve performance across your organisation. Teaching is grounded in real business scenarios, with case studies and projects that reflect the challenges organisations face today. Sustainability is embedded throughout, so you’ll learn how to run a business responsibly, balancing environmental and social impact.

By studying alongside like-minded professionals, you’ll build valuable networks while developing skills you can apply immediately in your workplace. Whether you’re seeking CPD or planning a career change, this diploma offers the credibility and real-world skills you need to make an immediate impact.

City Campus, the home of Worcester Business School

The Charles Hastings building on City Campus

The front of the Charles Hastings building

Course content

This programme is delivered in three modules, all designed for professionals to develop their leadership and management skills. Each module is built around real-world scenarios, helping you apply new ideas directly to your workplace.

We regularly review our courses to reflect the latest research and developments in the subject area, as well as feedback from students, employers and the wider sector. As a result, modules may change to ensure the course remains current and relevant.

Careers

This University Diploma in Leadership and Management is ideal for professionals looking to upskill, advance their careers, or change direction. This qualification supports continuing professional development (CPD) and opens doors to roles where strong leadership and business expertise are essential.

Your career opportunities will depend on the modules you choose, but graduates often progress into:

Leadership and management roles
Project and change management
Digital and innovation roles
Finance and planning positions
Customer and relationship management

Many students use this diploma to prepare for promotion, broaden their responsibilities, or transition into new sectors. Studying at Worcester also helps you build a professional network and gain practical skills that employers value.

This programme has allowed us to share experiences with our colleagues from across the organisation. By supporting each other throughout this experience, we have formed strong bonds with colleagues that we would never have met.
Delegate from Southco

Course highlights

A student participating in an online lecture while at home on their laptop

students around a table and one of them is pointing

Flexible learning

Tailor your studies to your goals. Choose from a wide range of modules and study at a pace that fits your professional and personal commitments. This flexibility makes the diploma ideal for CPD.

Teaching and assessment

You’ll be taught by experienced academics and industry specialists through a mix of workshops, seminars, and practical activities. Every session is designed to help you apply what you learn to real business challenges.

You will be taught through a combination of interactive workshops, lectures, seminars, and practical activities. Interactive workshops take a variety of formats and are intended to enable the application of learning through discussion and small group activities. Seminars enable the discussion and development of understanding of topics covered in lectures, and laboratory practical sessions are focused on developing subject specific skills and applied individual and group project work.

Entry requirements

A Level 4, or equivalent qualification

Relevant business/management experience at an appropriate level

Recognition of prior learning

International students

Additional requirements

Any questions?

If you have any questions about entry requirements, please call our Admissions Office on 01905 855111 or email admissions@worc.ac.uk.

Fees

The standard tuition fees for part-time students enrolling on this University Diploma in the academic year 2026/27 are £2,445 with each module charged at £407.50.

Tuition fees are reviewed annually and may increase each year for both new and continuing students.

For more details, please visit our course fees page.