The Warwick Executive Diploma in Advanced Management

Build your own pathway

Balancing your career, personal life, and finding time to study and progress in your career isn't easy. That's why we've designed the Warwick Leadership Pathways to work around you and your organisation.

The Executive Diploma in Advanced Management allows you to invest in your leadership development, at your own pace. You can choose your own path through our varied Postgraduate Awards. Our four-day Postgraduate Awards offer bite-sized learning with practical application. Covering a wide range of subjects, you'll build your leadership skills and knowledge in key business topics.

Choose any combination of our Postgraduate Awards from across the portfolio, plus the assessed Project Module (40 credits) to achieve your Executive Diploma in Advanced Management.

Start Date September or October
Duration 1 year
Location London - The Shard
Format Part-time
Fees £18,270 *

* See fees and funding for fees breakdown.

Why should you do this course?

Gain an accredited qualification, and real take-home benefits for you and your organisation.

Benefits for you:

A fully flexible framework that allows you to design your own development journey
Work at your own pace, with the choice of studying between one and five years
Learn from some of the leading experts in the a range of key business areas.
Develop your leadership skills and knowledge in key business topics
Build a supportive network of executives from a wide variety of industries.

Benefits for organisations:

Flexible on content – access individual module themes as a one-off programme, or build a unique route through a self-selected learning experience
Flexible on time - complete an Executive Diploma in one year, or build your qualification up with multiple modules over time to complete a qualification within 5 years
Flexible on finance - invest in an Executive Diploma for a complete and impactful one-year experience, or spread costs over a period that targets key development programme areas to build capability.

Learn from world-leading experts

Your teaching team is made up of experts from the worlds of academia and practice, in leadership and business. With their support, your knowledge, ideas and confidence can flourish. Meet the faculty teaching on our Executive Diplomas...

A supportive peer network for life

Tackling challenges is easier as a team. You will get to know your peers who will become your support network, both during and after your studies. Take a look at what our current and former participants of the Warwick Executive Diplomas have to say...

A deep dive into leadership expertise

Unlike a general management course, this Executive Diploma will allow you to create a leadership pathway that best suits you.

Actionable learning through your assessments

For each module, you'll complete one to two assignments to ensure you can put what you've learned into practice. Your assignments will give you practical, actionable strategies and reports that you can take back to your organisation and implement immediately. Take a look at the modules you can choose from...

Inspirational learning facilities

You will study your modules at WBS London, our inspirational teaching spaces on Level 13 and Level 17 of The Shard. With fantastic transport links thanks to our proximity to London Bridge Underground and Railway Stations, getting here is easy. Take a look around the facilities you can experience...

Become a great leader

Choose from a wide range of subjects to build your leadership skills and knowledge in key business topics

Student experiences

The programme gives access to the latest ideas and research which is relevant to now rather than standard theory based on the corporations of the 20th century. There were a fantastic range of people on the course, with participants from across the world."

Susan Ronaldson Course participant,
Executive Diploma in Organisational Change (2020-2021)

"The course is an excellent opportunity to learn about the current thinking in behavioural science from leading experts and thinkers. It'll enable you to gain practical experience of using the tools and techniques, which you can then quickly transfer back to your own organisation."

Jamie Bowen Course participant,
Behavioural Science in Practice

The breadth of topics which were covered in the course allowed me to leave the course with the confidence that I understood the fundamental aspects of digital leadership."

Michelle Munemo Course participant,
Executive Diploma in Digital Leadership

Start Date September or October
Duration 1 year
Location London - The Shard
Format Part-time
Fees £18,270 *

* See fees and funding for fees breakdown.

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