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Advanced Management PGDip, PGCert, PGA

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Find out more about our Executive Diploma in Advanced Management degree at Warwick

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TIBS-N1SC

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PGA / PGCert / PGDip

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PGA: 4 days / PGCert: 12 days / PG Dip: 1 year part-time

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September/October 2025

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Warwick Business School

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WBS London, The Shard

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The Executive Diploma in Advanced Management has been expertly designed for business leaders and senior managers. Study at Warwick Business School at The Shard, and invest in your leadership development at your own pace.

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Balancing your career, personal life, and finding time to study and progress in your career isn't easy.

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.

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Executive level learning at The Shard

WBS’s London location on the 17th and 13th floors of the iconic Shard building, in the heart of one of the world’s most cosmopolitan cities, combines facilities specifically designed for executive-level learning, with easy access to London’s international airports and transport hubs.

Teaching

  • Peer networks and debate: Questioning, discussion and debate with a support network of peers as well as truly interactive relationships with teaching faculty
  • Bespoke distance learning platform: Inter-modular support from the my.wbs platform, which is used to deliver our Distance learning MBA
  • Guest speakers and practitioners: relevant and relate-able speakers from industry and practice will feature within each individual module
  • Personal development and action learning: Utilising reflective practice, psychometric tools and analysis as well as learning through doing.

Reading lists

If you would like to view reading lists for current or previous cohorts of students, most departments have reading lists available through Warwick Library on the Talis Aspire platform.

You can search for reading lists by module title, code or convenor. Please see the modules tab of this page or the module catalogue.

Please note that some reading lists may have restricted access or be unavailable at certain times of year due to not yet being published. If you cannot access the reading list for a particular module, please check again later or contact the module’s host department.

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The cohorts on this Executive Diploma typically consist of between 15 and 20 participants

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Four full-day workshops per module.

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You will be required to complete written assessments, plus a further strategic project. All assignments are designed to be directly related to your own organisational context and challenges. In order to gain the qualification of Postgraduate Diploma awarded by the University of Warwick, you will need to attend all four taught modules, and pass the assessment in each module and your project.

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Minimum requirements

Participants who will gain most from the programme may be facing strategic challenges within their organisation which need outside inputs and new thinking, and/or who wish to address areas within their own development to help them get to the next level of performance. Applications are encouraged from a wide cross-section of industry sectors, both commercial and non-profit/public sector, and business functions.

Applications are welcomed from candidates who can demonstrate that their experience and responsibilities will allow them to take an active part in discussions and benefit fully from the programme.

Successful applicants are expected to have at least 5 years of management experience that reflects the contribution and impact they have made as a leader in their career so far. Final admission decisions will be made by the Programme Director and Admissions Committee.

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  • IELTS overall score of 7.0, minimum component scores of two at 6.0/6.5 and the rest at 7.0 or above.

All of our courses are delivered in English so, if English is not your first language, you have not graduated from an English speaking university or worked in an English speaking environment for at least two years you must demonstrate a minimum overall standard in the following recognised tests of English. The certificate will be required as evidence.

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There are no additional entry requirements for this course.

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The programme is delivered in four modules of your choice, each over four days at WBS London, so you don’t need to divert from your usual responsibilities at work. Upon successful completion you will be awarded a Postgraduate Diploma in Advanced Management from the University of Warwick.

The four Postgraduate Awards that you choose to study will build and develop new leadership thinking and transform your strategic understanding enabling you to utilise your new learning immediately in your own organisation between modules as well as through your Project Module.

You can choose for your modules to be taught between a one and five year period, depending on the pace that works for you.

Modules

You can also choose to study any of the above modules individually as a Postgraduate Award with variable start dates throughout the year. These Postgraduate Awards run across four days of face-to-face teaching at our London base in The Shard, with a six week window to complete your assignments. Successful completion of three Postgraduate Awards will grant you a Postgraduate Certificate.

Read the module descriptions for this course on the Warwick Business School website.

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