The University of Leicester is one of the UK's leading research and teaching universities with over 25 years' experience of offering high quality distance learning courses. It is one of the UK's largest providers of distance learning courses with nearly 2,000 new distance learners joining them each year. Leicester's courses are internationally renowned and their students come from 206 culturally diverse countries, many of whom are supported by their extensive network of partners across the world.
In 2014/15 one in four distance learners studying with Leicester's School of Business were recruited by Stafford.