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Manchester Business School
Established:1965 (2004 for the 'new' MBS)
Type:Business School
Director:Michael Luger
Location:Manchester, United Kingdom
Campus:Urban
Affiliations:University of Manchester
Website:http://www.mbs.ac.uk

Manchester Business School (MBS) is the business and management school of the University of Manchester in England. The date of establishment or date of founding of an Institution is the date on which that institution chooses to claim as its starting point Year 1965 ( MCMLXV) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display full calendar of the 1965 Gregorian calendar. A business school is a university-level institution that confers degrees in Business Administration A director is the Chief executive officer of a University or other educational institution The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom, the UK or Britain,is a Sovereign state located The University of Manchester is a " red brick " civic University located in Manchester, England. A website (alternatively web site or Web site, a back-construction from the Proper noun World Wide Web) is a collection of Web pages The University of Manchester is a " red brick " civic University located in Manchester, England. England is a Country which is part of the United Kingdom. Its inhabitants account for more than 83% of the total UK population whilst its mainland According to the Financial Times it is ranked among the top 25 in the world. The Financial Times ( FT) is a British international business Newspaper.

Contents

History

Atrium of MBS East situated on the corner of Booth Street West and Oxford Road. It is the home to the Undergraduate Services and some of the Research Centres.
Atrium of MBS East situated on the corner of Booth Street West and Oxford Road. It is the home to the Undergraduate Services and some of the Research Centres.

The "new" Manchester Business School was formed in 2004 as a result of the merger of UMIST's Manchester School of Management, the Institute of Innovation Research (IoIR), the Victoria University of Manchester's School of Accounting and Finance, and the "old" Manchester Business School. The University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology ( UMIST) was a University based in the centre of the City of Manchester The Victoria University of Manchester (commonly known as the University of Manchester) was a University in Manchester, England. The Independent wrote, in 2006, that MBS is "one of the grand old men of British business schools",[1] as it was founded in 1965 - at the same time as the London Business School -, after the Franks Report recommended "the establishment of two high quality business schools attached to existing universities but with considerable autonomy". The Independent is a British compact Newspaper published by Tony O'Reilly 's Independent News & Media. London Business School is a leading international Business school and a constituent college of the University of London. [2] MBS was the first school in the United Kingdom to offer MBA courses. The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom, the UK or Britain,is a Sovereign state located The Master of Business Administration ( MBA) is a Master's degree in Business administration, which attracts people from a wide range of academic disciplines

Organisation

The school comes under the Faculty of Humanities of the University of Manchester. The University of Manchester is a " red brick " civic University located in Manchester, England. Today it is with over 200 teaching staff not only the largest campus-based business school in the country, and has a truly international student composition as three quarters of its student body is from outside the UK. [3]

Manchester offers Ph. D, MBA (full time and executive), several specialist masters programmes as well as undergraduate degrees. Entry requirements for undergraduate and postgraduate degrees are both highly competitive. For popular undergraduate courses such as Accounting and/or Finance there are just 70 places available for approximately 1600 applicants. [4] As of 2006, a minimum work experience of 3 years and a good Graduate Management Admission Test is required for admission to the MBA programs. GMAT redirects here for other uses see GMAT (disambiguation. The Graduate Management Admission Test (GMAT pronounced G-mat is The 18 months full time MBA program is known for its "Manchester Method" which puts emphasis on learning by doing throughout the entire duration of the programme, including significant real life projects. [5] In addition, the school offers the so-called "Manchester Gold" programme, a mentoring scheme to provide students with opportunities to meet regularly with professionals from a wide variety of sectors and industries. Last year's mentors, for example, came from high-profile companies such as Morgan Stanley, PricewaterhouseCoopers, Royal Dutch Shell Group, IBM Consulting and GlaxoSmithKline among many others. Morgan Stanley ( is a global Financial services provider headquartered in New York City New York United States PricewaterhouseCoopers (or PwC is one of the world's largest Professional services firms Royal Dutch Shell plc, commonly known simply as Shell, is a multinational oil company of Dutch and British origins GlaxoSmithKline plc () is a United Kingdom -based pharmaceutical, biological and Healthcare Company.

Professor Michael Luger Ph. D MCP (UC Berkeley) MPA AB (Princeton) is the new Director since January 2007; he joined from the Kenan-Flagler Business School, part of University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The University of California Berkeley (also referred to as Cal, Berkeley and UC Berkeley) is a major research university located in Berkeley Princeton University is a private Coeducational research university located in Princeton, New Jersey. The Kenan-Flagler Business School at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill serves the community as a world-renowned business education institution The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill ( UNC, North Carolina, or simply Carolina) is a public, Coeducational Research

Accreditation and reputation

Among the bodies validating MBS programmes, the British Psychological Society validates its Organizational Psychology masters, and the Chartered Institute for Personnel and Development its HRM MA degree. The British Psychological Society (BPS is the representative body for Psychologists and Psychology in the United Kingdom. Its MBA is one of a small and select band worldwide which receive triple accreditation by AACSB International, AMBA and EQUIS. Triple Accreditation is a term meaning that a Business school has been accredited by the three largest Business school ranking associations The Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB was founded in 1916 to accredit schools of business worldwide while the first accreditations took For the Iraqi condiment see Amba (condiment. For the geologic feature see Amba (geology. The European Quality Improvement System (or EQUIS) is a School accreditation system

The school was recently ranked among the top 25 business schools in the world for the third time for its MBA program, and 1st in the world for its doctoral program. [6] It is placed 9th in Europe and 4th in the UK, while being 5th in the world for international business and 4th in Europe for percentage salary increase of its graduates. Regarding international experience, MBS is 11th in the world and 1st in the UK as well as is ranked in the world's top 10 for the career progress of its alumni. The average starting salary of Manchester's MBA graduates is US$111,774 - one of the highest of European business schools. The United States dollar ( sign: $; code: USD) is the unit of Currency of the United States; it has also been

Other rankings, such as the most recent Forbes survey, which lists business schools on their "return on investment" via a survey of alumni salaries, put Manchester 3rd in the UK and 6th in Europe. In the Which MBA? survey MBS reached the 5th place in the UK, 8th in Europe and 30th in the world. The MBA Career Guide of international MBA recruiters placed Manchester 2nd in the UK, 7th in Europe and 15th in the world. [7]

Furthermore, Manchester was selected by HM Home Office's Border Agency as part of the Highly Skilled Migrant Programme which gives MBA-graduates from the world's top 50 business schools extra qualification points and helps them meet visa requirements to work in the UK. The Highly Skilled Migrant Programme (HSMP was a scheme which has now been phased out that was designed to allow highly skilled people to Immigrate into the United Kingdom The Quality Assurance Agency for Higher Education (QAA) assessed the school's teaching quality with 24 out of 24 points. The Quality Assurance Agency for Higher Education ( QAA) was established in 1997 to provide an integrated Quality assurance service for United Kingdom

Research Profile

In the previous 2001 Research Assessment Exercise (pre-merger) the 'old' Manchester Business School and Manchester School of Management were both rated 5. The Research Assessment Exercise ( RAE) is an exercise undertaken approximately every 5 years on behalf of the four UK Higher education funding councils ( HEFCE Manchester School of Accounting and Finance is one of only two accounting and finance schools in the UK rated as 6* by the RAE (i. e. with RAE 5* rating for two consecutive periods). The UK government body (HEFCE) ranks MBS teaching capabilities as 'Excellent', the highest category. The Higher Education Funding Council for England ( HEFCE) is a Non-departmental public body of the Department for Innovation Universities and Skills (previously According to a survey published by Accounting and Finance in 2008, MBS is ranked as the "world number one for accounting research".

Manchester has several research centres of international standing. These include those in the areas of decision sciences, employment and labour studies, technology management and innovation, and critical management studies. Critical management studies (CMS is a loose but rapidly growing grouping of politically Left wing and theoretically innovative approaches to Management, business Among its Professors with World-ranked reputations are Professors Luke Georghiou, Ian Miles, Richard Nelson and Giovanni Dosi (Manchester Institute of Innovation Research), Professor Fang-Lee Cooke (Chinese Business and Employment), Professor Colin Talbot (Public Policy and Management), Professor John Hassard (Organization Studies), Professor Jill Rubery FBA (Employment Studies), Professor Andrew Stark (Finance), and Professor Richard Whitley (Business Systems). Manchester Institute of Innovation Research is a research centre at the University of Manchester, England. Colin Talbot (born 1952 is a British political scientist He is currently (2008 a full professor at the University of Manchester and holds the Chair of Public Policy Professor Karel Williams is currently co-heading a major new centre for the research of social change called CRESC.

International Exchange Programmes

Manchester has one of the world's largest international exchange programmes, among others with renowned institutions such as New York University, Cornell University, University of Chicago, University of California (all USA), Queen's University, McGill University, York University and University of Toronto (all Canada), SDA Bocconi (Italy), HEC Paris (France), Copenhagen Business School (Denmark), Rotterdam School of Management (Netherlands), Stockholm School of Economics (Sweden), Instituto de Empresa (Spain), University of St. Gallen (Switzerland), National University of Singapore, International University of Japan, Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, Hong Kong University of Science & Technology, CEIBS (China), University of Otago (New Zealand) and the Universities of Sydney and Melbourne (both Australia). New York University ( NYU) is a private, Nonsectarian, Coeducational Research University in New York City. The University of Chicago is a Private university located principally in the Hyde Park neighborhood of Chicago. The University of California ( UC) is a Public university system in the state of California. Queen's University, generally referred to simply as Queen's, is a coeducational non-sectarian Public university located in Kingston, Ontario York University (Université York is a public Research university located in Toronto, Ontario. This article is about the University of Toronto's St George Campus SDA Bocconi School of Management is one of the leading Business schools in Europe. Copenhagen Business School, also known as CBS, is one of the three largest business schools in Northern Europe and is situated in Copenhagen, Denmark The Stockholm School of Economics (SSE or Handelshögskolan i Stockholm (HSS is a highly ranked business school and the only private University IE Business School is an independent educational institution consistently ranked among the top 15 business schools worldwide (see Rankings below The University of St Gallen (in German Universität St Gallen) is a Research university based in St The National University of Singapore ( Abbreviation: NUS;; Abbreviated 国大 Malay: Universiti Kebangsaan Singapura; Tamil: The is a private University located in Minami Uonuma city in Niigata Prefecture, Japan. The Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad (IIM Ahmedabad also known as IIMA is considered to be the premier institute of management education in India The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (often abbreviated HKUST is a public university located in Hong Kong China Europe International Business School ( CEIBS) is an international business school located in Shanghai, China. The University of Otago ( Te Whare Wānanga o Otāgo) in Dunedin is New Zealand 's oldest university with over 20000 students enrolled during The University of Sydney (informally Sydney Uni or USyd) is the oldest university in Australia The University of Melbourne is a Public university located in Melbourne, Victoria.

Notable alumni

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