Distance learning

Study with us. Wherever you are.

Every programme we do, every course we offer can be studied from anywhere in the world. Many thousands of students have graduated with Edinburgh Business School entirely through distance learning.

All distance learning programmes are tackled course by course whenever you are ready for them. You will, of course, benefit from the full support of the School throughout.

Distance learning students receive the following:

Comprehensive course text.
Interactive course website.
Web access to Faculty.
Full use of the EBS Student Services website.
Optional contact with fellow students.

You are provided with all you require to prepare for exams. There are no additional reading lists or compulsory residentials. You can also apply, if you wish, to take some courses on-campus in Edinburgh.

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Thomas Stephen O'Connell
USA

Programme flexibility meant everything to Thomas O'Connell when circumstances forced him to suspend his involvement with Edinburgh Business School's MBA programme in early 1999. Thomas was running his own consultancy in the US when he signed up with EBS in 1998. A long-standing ambition to join the World Health Organisation (WHO) arose and it meant not only a change in career, but relocation to a foreign country.

Thomas moved to France, close to the Swiss border as the WHO job was based in Switzerland, and for the next three years he focused on his new job and lifestyle....more