Flexible Learning Options

Diverse Study Options to Meet Your Needs

From short courses and microcredentials, to professional development modules and fully online Master’s degrees, we offer a range of flexible programmes to suit your individual needs. Our suite of programmes uses a variety of delivery methods, including online only, face-to-face, blended, and distance-learning approaches.

Why Study Flexibly?

Flexible learning is becoming an increasingly popular way for busy professionals to stay ahead in their chosen field. Studying one of our programmes can help boost your career prospects, give you the opportunity to develop new skills, advance your knowledge in a particular field, or allow you to pursue your passion in an area of personal interest.

Our flexible delivery methods allow you to complete our programmes around your own schedule, whether that be through online learning from home, on-campus delivery with multiple start options throughout the year, or on-the-job learning through a work-based programme or apprenticeship.

Short Courses

We have developed a range of short courses covering a variety of subject areas and disciplines, including business, education, health, languages, media, food, and agriculture. A number of our courses are professionally accredited so you can receive a certificate upon successful completion.

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Online Learning

The University of Lincoln provides a range of fully online programmes designed to help fit teaching and learning around your other commitments. These include our flexible, bite-sized courses, known as 'microcredentials', as well as a range of fully online Master's degrees. These programmes can be studied entirely from the comfort of your own home, with support available from our expert staff.

Microcredential Programmes

Our online short courses are designed are to help strengthen your professional credentials in a range of specialised areas. These easily accessible short courses, also known as microcredentials, cover key practical and theoretical in-demand skills. They can be used to simply boost your CV or as a route into further study. The University of Lincoln has also partnered with digital education specialists FutureLearn to offer a range of online short course options.

Accounting Concepts

This course offers and introduction to some of the basic ideas and concepts behind management accounting.

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Assessing Financial Health

Explore key financial ratios used in association with external financial reports, including profitability ratios, liquidity ratios, gearing and investor ratios, and efficiency ratios.

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Brand Management

Develop your understanding of brand management and how organisations use brands to connect with customers and build loyalty.

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Conscious Inclusion: Empowering Individuals

This course is led by an expert team from the Eleanor Glanville Institute and explores conscious inclusion from a range of different perspectives.

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Culture and High Performing Teams

This course offers an understanding of the development and maintenance of high-performance teams.

Environmental Trends and Strategic Marketing

Explore and identify environmental trends that may impact marketing strategies.

Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Literacy: the ABC of EDI

Build your understanding of EDI, covering topics such as bias, social influence, control, allyship, and personal leadership.

Ethical Leadership and the Decision Making Process

This online microcredential explores ethical theories and their relationship to leadership at both an individual and organisational level.

Inclusive Leadership: Empowering Co-creation, Change and Innovation

Build an understanding of what it means to be an inclusive leader.

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Integrated Marketing Communications and Stakeholder Engagement

Develop your understanding of the interconnected concepts of stakeholder engagement and integrated marketing communications.

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Investment Appraisal and Financial Decision-Making

Examine investment appraisal techniques and how they can be used to inform decision-making.

Managing Self and Others

Explore the concepts, approaches, and behaviours associated with managing self and others.

Reporting Human Rights

This online course offers an introduction to the subject of human rights and the techniques used by Thomson Reuters to inform its reporting.

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Strategic Analysis

Explore techniques, models, and frameworks that leaders and managers can use to analyse both the external and internal environment of an organisation.

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Strategic Change

Examine how different business models can help in developing competitive advantage.

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What is Strategy?

Explore the nature and meaning of strategy and its role in contributing to the purpose of the organisation or to the development of competitive advantage.

Full Microcredential Course List and Dates

Course Category	Title	Course Start Date
Strategy	What is Strategy?	New Dates TBC
Strategy	Strategic Analysis	11 March 2024
Strategy	Strategic Change	6 May 2024

Course Category	Title	Course Start Date
Marketing	Environmental Trends and Strategic Marketing	New Dates TBC
Marketing	Brand Management	11 March 2024
Marketing	Integrated Marketing Communications and Stakeholder Engagement	6 May 2024

Course Category	Title	Course Start Date
Accounting and Finance	Accounting Concepts	1 July 2024
Accounting and Finance	Investment Appraisal and Financial Decision-making	9 September 2024
Accounting and Finance	Assessing Financial Health	4 November 2024

Course Category	Title	Course Start Date
Leadership and Management	Managing Self and Others	1 July 2024
Leadership and Management	Culture and High Performing Teams	9 September 2024
Leadership and Management	Ethical Leadership and the Decision-Making Process	4 November 2024

Course Category	Title	Course Start Date
Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion	Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Literacy: ABC of EDI	New Dates TBC
Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion	Inclusive Leadership: Empowering Co-creation, Change and Innovation	9 September 2024
Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion	Conscious Inclusion: Empowering Individuals	6 May 2024

Course Category	Title	Course Start Date
Journalism	Reporting Human Rights	New Dates TBC

Online Master's Degrees

Our online Master's programmes includes range of full MSc and MBA options in subjects including Business and Management.

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MBA Leadership

Our online MBA has been created for ambitious professionals who want to fast-track their career progression.

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MSc Management

This MSc Management has been created for individuals who want to develop a deep understanding of business, leadership, and management.

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MSc Management with Human Resources

This programme has been created for individuals who want to develop a holistic understanding of business, leadership, and management in a human resources context.

MSc Management with Marketing

This online course has been created for individuals who want to develop a robust understanding of business, leadership, and management in a marketing context.

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MSc Management with Project Management

This programme has an applied focus and is designed to develop both the management and project management skills that cut across functions.

MSc Management with Supply Chain

This course offers the opportunity to evaluate the macro issues and challenges associated with the development of strategic global supply chains.

Work-based Learning and Specialist Development

In addition to our regular short course and online programmes, we also offer a range of specialist professional development and training programmes for health and education professionals, business managers, and for former and serving military personnel.

Specialist Health Programmes

Our Health and Wellbeing Hub offers post registration programmes and continuing professional development for qualified practitioners working across the health and social care sector. We have expertise in a broad range of health and wellbeing areas with a portfolio developed over many years of partnership working closely with employers.

Health Programmes

Military Programmes

The University of Lincoln offers a range of programmes designed for full-time serving, reservist, and veteran members of the armed forces. These include work-based distance learning programmes, specialist technical Master's programmes, and our 'Selborne' programmes for Royal Navy and Royal Marines personnel.

Military Programmes

Work-based Learning

Our work-based distance learning programmes aim to help you to fit your studies around your existing work commitments. Each programme allows you to build on your expertise and achieve a full degree by completing a range of work-based management activities. These flexible programmes can be completed within 13-24 months.

Management Courses

Degree Apprenticeships

Degree Apprenticeships offer students the chance to earn a salary while studying for a Bachelor's or Master's degree without paying tuition fees. They allow you to work as an employee while you study part-time, combining university study with practical on-the-job experience, developing the employment skills needed for a successful career in your chosen field.

Our Degree Apprenticeships

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Need Help?

If you're not sure which programme best suits your needs, contact our friendly Enquiries Team at enquiries@lincoln.ac.uk and we'll try to help you find the course that's right for you.