Open University MBA Profile
Open University | |||||||||||||||
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| Motto | Learn and Live | ||||||||||||||
| Established | 1969 | ||||||||||||||
| Type | Public | ||||||||||||||
| Chancellor | Lord Puttnam | ||||||||||||||
| Vice-Chancellor | Prof Brenda Gourley | ||||||||||||||
| Students | 168,850 | ||||||||||||||
| Undergraduates | 151,385 | ||||||||||||||
| Postgraduates | 17,465 | ||||||||||||||
| Location | (various), United Kingdom | ||||||||||||||
| Campus | Distance Learning | ||||||||||||||
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| Affiliations | Alliance of Non-Aligned Universities, Association of Commonwealth Universities, European Association of Distance Teaching Universities, Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools | ||||||||||||||
| Website | http://www.open.ac.uk/ | ||||||||||||||
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The Open University (OU) is the UK's 'open' learning university. It was established in 1969, and the first students started in January 1971. The majority of students are based in the UK, but its courses are also studied in the rest of Europe, in North and South America, in Africa and in Australasia/Asia. The administration is based at Walton Hall, Milton Keynes in Buckinghamshire, but has regional centres in each of its thirteen regions around the UK. The university awards undergraduate and postgraduate degrees, diplomas and certificates.
With more than 180,000 students enrolled, including more than 25,000 students studying overseas, it is the largest academic institution in the UK by student number, and qualifies as one of the world's mega universities. Since it was founded, more than 3 million students have studied its courses. It was rated top University in England and Wales for student satisfaction in the 2005 and 2006 UK government national student satisfaction survey.
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