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Best Senior leader apprenticeship providers

Every provider delivering the Level 7 Senior leader apprenticeship, ranked by the Department for Education's official 2024/25 achievement rate. Compare pass rates and cohort sizes, then view a provider's profile to enquire. See the Senior leader standard page for funding, duration and the full provider directory.

Top providers by achievement rate

Official 2024/25 achievement rates for Senior leader, published by the Department for Education. Cohort sizes shown - providers with fewer than 30 leavers are listed separately. How this table works

#ProviderAchievement ratePass rateCohort
1York St John University92.5%100%50
2Best Practice Network92%97.9%50
3University of Huddersfield87.9%100%30
4University of Leeds86.4%100%60
5Loughborough University86%100%40
6University of Hertfordshire85.7%100%40
7QA85.1%100%50
8Newcastle University84.8%100%30
9University of Staffordshire84.6%100%30
10Cranfield University84.5%99.2%300
11University of Exeter83.6%100%260
12University of Lancashire83.3%100%40
13Arden University82.7%100%320
14The University of Sunderland82.4%100%30
15The University of Manchester81%99.3%170
16Corndel80.4%100%1030
17Lincoln Bishop University80%100%30
18Babington80%100%30
19Nottingham Trent University78.4%100%50
20The Open University77.5%100%40
21Knowledgebrief Limited76.8%100%70
22Captiva Learning76%100%560
23Sheffield Hallam University75%100%70
24University of Portsmouth75%100%30
25Teesside University73.6%98.7%110
26De Montfort University73.5%100%30
27Ascento73.1%86.4%30
28University of Reading71.4%100%320
29University of Wolverhampton71.4%100%40
30Lancaster University71.2%100%70
31Tend Training Ltd69.7%100%30
32Keele University68.6%100%70
33Oxford Brookes University68.1%100%50
34University of Kent67.3%100%50
35Middlesex University64%97%50
36University of Gloucestershire63.4%100%40
37Better Futures Apprenticeships63.2%100%40
38Hult International Business School63.1%100%150
39Aston University62%97.1%110
40University of Cambridge61.8%100%60
41Liverpool John Moores University60.5%100%80
42Northumbria University60%100%30
43University of Birmingham59.8%100%170
44City St George’s University of London58.6%100%30
45Consalia57.1%94.1%30
46University of East Anglia54.5%100%40
47Solent University54.3%100%40
48Happy50%93.3%30
49Leeds Trinity University50%100%30
50Coventry University45.1%100%50
51Durham University29.4%100%30
–Bauer Academy small cohort100%100%10
–University of Nottingham small cohort100%100%10
–Coreed small cohort93.3%93.3%20
–Serco small cohort90%100%10
–University of Bedfordshire small cohort88.9%100%10
–Aicura small cohort87.5%100%20
–University of Lincoln small cohort85.7%100%10
–WELL Training small cohort81.3%100%20
–Anglia Ruskin University ARU small cohort78.3%100%20
–Buckinghamshire New University small cohort76.9%100%10
–University of West London small cohort75%100%20
–Bournemouth University small cohort75%100%10
–The University of Sheffield small cohort72.2%100%20
–UWE Bristol small cohort71.4%100%10
–Aspirations Academies Trust (Academy Trust) small cohort70%100%10
–Canterbury Christ Church University small cohort63.6%100%10
–Qdos Training small cohort63.6%100%10
–Birmingham City University small cohort45.5%100%10
–University of Plymouth small cohort41.7%100%20
–BPIF Training small cohort41.7%100%10
–Deere Apprenticeships Ltd small cohort40%100%20
–UCL small cohort38.9%100%20
–Sct Ltd small cohort38.9%100%20
–University of Bradford small cohort36.8%100%20
–Riverside Training small cohort31.3%100%20

Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: Department for Education, apprenticeship national achievement rate tables, 2024/25. Rankings are compiled by FATP and are not endorsed by the DfE. Providers with DfE-suppressed data (small cohorts) are not shown.

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