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Professional Development Europe (PDE) is an accredited institution of the Open University of the United Kingdom. It offers two MBA awards, one a general MBA and the other an MBA (Technology Management) for those wishing to specialise. Both awards are fully validated awards of the Open University. Graduates of the programmes are awarded an MBA (OUVA).

The Open University is generally acknowledged as a world leader in distance education, with over 30 years experience in this form of delivery. It is the only recognised British higher education institution that teaches exclusively by distance learning. In independent research, the Open University was ranked 11th among the 100 or so universities in the United Kingdom.

Through its links with higher education institutions and sister companies in the USA, Australia, India and South Africa, PDE has a network of global contacts providing management programmes which range from Certificates in Management to Doctorates in Business Administration. The specialist MBA in Technology Management, for example, offered elsewhere as an award of Deakin University, Australia, is one of the most successful specialist distance learning programmes of its type in the world.


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