Nottingham University Business School
Overview
Located on an award winning campus, with over 2,500 students and around 200 staff, Nottingham University Business School is a leading centre for management education and offers a wide range of flexible undergraduate, MA/MSc, MBA and doctoral programmes. The School's teaching has been rated as 'excellent' by the Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE), with 70% of our research rated as either internationally excellent or world-leading in the 2008 Research Assessment Exercise.
The 2008 Times Good University Guide ranked the School sixth among UK management schools. We also rank first in the UK and overall 23rd globally in the Aspen Institute's 2009-10 'Beyond Grey Pinstripes' Global Top 100; within this prestigious ranking's research category we are placed 2nd in the world for our research into social, environmental, and ethical issues in management.
The Business School has excellent links with industry and commerce, and receives substantial research funding from the commercial sector as well as research councils.
Key features of the Business School
- One of Europe’s largest business schools in one of the world’s most prestigious universities.
- In the 2008 Research Assessment Exercise 70% of our research was rated as either internationally excellent or world-leading, ranking us 6th in the UK.
- Among the few UK business schools ranked in the 2009 Financial Times global top 100 MBA, with our PhD Programme ranked 36th in the World and where we rate highly for Value for Money, Career Progression, and International Experience.
- The Financial Times ranked our MSc International Business in the 2008 Top 50 Masters in Management programmes, and rated the programme ‘5th best in international business’ overall.
- 2nd in the world for Corporate Social Responsibility in the 2009 FT Global MBA Top 100.
- All our MBA programmes are accredited by AMBA, which ensures that they meet rigorous and consistent quality and standards.
- Our Singapore MBA programme in partnership with PSB Academy has been named the ‘Best Overall UK MBA’ by Edupoll.
- We currently have participants from 31 countries on our MBA and 47 countries on our MA/MSc programmes, so we can promise our students a rich variety of business perspectives from their peers.
- We offer the UK’s first and only MBA in Corporate Social Responsibility, led by our internationally renowned International Centre for Corporate Social Responsibility (ICCSR).
- Our Entrepreneurship division and the University of Nottingham Institute for Enterprise and Innovation (UNIEI) form one of Europe’s leading centres for entrepreneurship research and practice. UNIEI developed some of the first entrepreneurship courses in the UK.
- The award citation notes that under the auspices of the University's Institute of Enterprise and Innovation (UNIEI), Nottingham offers 'one of the largest and most highly developed entrepreneurship education programmes in Europe'.
- Our MBA participants benefit from an average annual salary increase of US$100,277 (Financial Times MBA 2008).
- Our faculty is among the leading researchers in their fields, ensuring that our teaching is underpinned by world-class research.
- Our Centre for Management Buy-out Research (CMBOR) is the world’s pre-eminent provider of information and analysis on management buy-outs and celebrated its 20th anniversary in 2006.
- We have established expertise in risk and insurance dating back to 1968 and our Centre for Risk and Insurance Studies (CRIS) is one of the world’s leading university centres for teaching and research in risk and insurance.
- Our Operations Management Division are one of the biggest in Europe and were the largest academic partner in the massive VIVACE project (Value Improvement through a Virtual Aeronautical Collaborative Enterprise), which involved 63 manufacturing companies and universities to design an aircraft and its engines as whole.
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