The Open University
Milton Keynes · Higher Education Institution
The sponsor holds Student Sponsor status with a track record of compliance — the standard standing for an established provider.
Who teaches, and who awards
The Open University awards 12 undergraduate courses that another provider teaches. A student on one of these registers with The Open University and receives its qualification, but attends the provider named below. The teaching provider is a separate organisation and holds its own sponsor licence only if it appears on this site in its own right.
Taught by Open College of the Arts
12 courses- Own sponsor licence:
- no
- On the OfS register:
- no
List the 12 courses
- Creative Arts BA · Part-time
- Creative Writing BA · Part-time
- Drawing BA · Part-time
- Fine Art BA · Part-time
- Graphic Design BA · Part-time
- Illustration BA · Part-time
- Interior Design BA · Part-time
- Music BA · Part-time
- Painting BA · Part-time
- Photography BA · Part-time
- Textiles BA · Part-time
- Visual Communications BA · Part-time
Discover Uni records the registering provider and the teaching provider separately for every course. Where they differ, the arrangement is a franchise or a validation; the dataset does not say which, and neither does this page.
Officially published undergraduate courses for 2026/27
133 coursesWhat The Open University publishes through Discover Uni for 2026/27 entry. Undergraduate only — postgraduate courses are not in that dataset, so a course missing here is not a course this provider does not teach. Fees are not reproduced. The costs link on each row is the provider’s page for costs in addition to tuition — equipment, placements, field trips — which is what Discover Uni collects; it is not a page of international tuition fees, and no such page is published as open data by anyone.
| Course | Award | Campus | Length | Mode | Options | Provider |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Accounting and FinanceProfessionally accredited | BSc | — | — | Distance | — | Course · Additional costs |
| Accounting and Finance | DipHE | — | — | Distance | — | Course · Additional costs |
| Art History and Visual Cultures | BA | — | — | Distance | — | Course · Additional costs |
| Art History and Visual Cultures | DipHE | — | — | Distance | — | Course · Additional costs |
| Arts and Humanities | BA | — | — | Distance | — | Course · Additional costs |
| Arts and Humanities | DipHE | — | — | Distance | — | Course · Additional costs |
| Bachelor of Design | BDes | — | — | Distance | — | Course · Additional costs |
| BiologyProfessionally accredited | BSc | — | — | Distance | — | Course · Additional costs |
| Biology | DipHE | — | — | Distance | — | Course · Additional costs |
| Biomedical Sciences | BSc | — | — | Distance | — | Course · Additional costs |
| Biomedical Sciences | DipHE | — | — | Distance | — | Course · Additional costs |
| Business and Economics | BA | — | — | Distance | — | Course · Additional costs |
| Business and Economics | DipHE | — | — | Distance | — | Course · Additional costs |
| Business and Law | BA | — | — | Distance | — | Course · Additional costs |
| Business and Law | DipHE | — | — | Distance | — | Course · Additional costs |
| Business ManagementProfessionally accredited | BA | — | — | Distance | — | Course · Additional costs |
| Business ManagementProfessionally accredited | DipHE | — | — | Distance | — | Course · Additional costs |
| Business Management and Languages | BA | — | — | Distance | — | Course · Additional costs |
| Business Management and Languages | DipHE | — | — | Distance | — | Course · Additional costs |
| Childhood and Youth Studies | BA | — | — | Distance | — | Course · Additional costs |
| Childhood and Youth Studies | DipHE | — | — | Distance | — | Course · Additional costs |
| Classical Studies | BA | — | — | Distance | — | Course · Additional costs |
| Classical Studies | DipHE | — | — | Distance | — | Course · Additional costs |
| Combined STEM | BSc | — | — | Distance | — | Course · Additional costs |
| Computer Science with Artificial Intelligence | BSc | — | — | Distance | — | Course · Additional costs |
| Computer Science with Artificial Intelligence | DipHE | — | — | Distance | — | Course · Additional costs |
| Computing and ITProfessionally accredited | BSc | — | — | Distance | — | Course · Additional costs |
| Computing and IT | DipHE | — | — | Distance | — | Course · Additional costs |
| Computing and IT and a second subjectProfessionally accredited | BSc | — | — | Distance | — | Course · Additional costs |
| Computing and IT and a second subject | DipHE | — | — | Distance | — | Course · Additional costs |
| Computing with Electronic Engineering | BSc | — | — | Distance | — | Course · Additional costs |
| Computing with Electronic Engineering | DipHE | — | — | Distance | — | Course · Additional costs |
| Criminology | BA | — | — | Distance | — | Course · Additional costs |
| Criminology | DipHE | — | — | Distance | — | Course · Additional costs |
| Criminology and Law | BA | — | — | Distance | — | Course · Additional costs |
| Criminology and Law | DipHE | — | — | Distance | — | Course · Additional costs |
| Criminology and Psychology | BA | — | — | Distance | — | Course · Additional costs |
| Criminology and Psychology | DipHE | — | — | Distance | — | Course · Additional costs |
| Criminology and Sociology | BA | — | — | Distance | — | Course · Additional costs |
| Criminology and Sociology | DipHE | — | — | Distance | — | Course · Additional costs |
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