Qualifi Level 7 Diploma in Strategic Management and Leadership

You take all six mandatory units, then select two from a published group of four: finance for managers, strategic marketing, organisational change strategies, and human resource planning. Eight units in total. Qualifi does not publish credit values for individual units, so we cannot tell you how much of the 120 credits the two optional ones represent. Your centre may also have practical limits on which combinations it runs in a given intake, so ask before you set your heart on a pairing.

No. Several awarding organisations publish Level 7 qualifications whose titles rearrange the words "strategic", "management" and "leadership", and they are genuinely different qualifications with different units, sizes and rules. The one described on this page is Qualifi's, and its regulated number is 601/5335/0. If you are comparing offers from training providers, ask each of them for the qualification number and match on that. A title alone will not tell you what you are buying.

It is applied. Rather than analysing a published case study, you lead a piece of strategic work and are assessed on it. For anyone who needs to show an employer or a promotion panel something real, that unit tends to be the most useful thing on the transcript. Qualifi does not publish the assessment detail — length, format, whether it must be based on your own organisation — so ask the centre how it runs the unit.

A single onward option appears on the page: a dissertation at a UK university, leading to a master's degree. That line carries no qualifying language and identifies no institution, so read it carefully. The award is a diploma, not a master's, and it confers no degree. Universities set their own admission rules and decide for themselves how much credit a Level 7 diploma earns towards their programmes. Ask the university directly, in writing, before you commit money to the diploma.

Two things are published and only two: a Level 6 qualification, or a first degree. No minimum age appears, no English language test is specified and no references are requested, which differs from several other Qualifi Level 7 awards that do ask for all three. Because the page is silent, the sensible step is to ask your approved centre what it applies in practice — centres are entitled to add their own admission requirements.

Neither figure comes from Qualifi. Length is unpublished, price is unpublished, and this award carries no total qualification time either, leaving not even an hours estimate to work backwards from. The approved centre delivering the teaching sets the timetable and the price, because Qualifi accredits and certificates the qualification without teaching it. Get both in writing, and ask specifically whether registration, assessment and certification are inside the quoted figure.