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Bradford University School of Management, located in Bradford, West Yorkshire, England and established in 1963, is an international business school. It occupies buildings near Lister Park which are separate from the main university campus.
- Introduction
- Accreditation
- Ranking
- Courses
- Structure
- Trivia
- FT.com / Business Education / Global MBA rankings
The University of Bradford (est. 1966) is a university in Bradford, West Yorkshire in the United Kingdom. Formed from a technical college in 1966, there are three campuses: the main campus, located on Richmond Road, the School of Health, on Trinity Road, and the School of Management, at Emm Lane. According to The Times Good University Guide 2008, the University of Bradford is the 48th best university in the country.[3] It has roughly 12,000 students enrolled, of which almost a third are mature students. Almost 25% of students are international students, and come from over 100 countries. 92% of the university’s domestic students come from the state sector.
The University of Bradford was the first university in the UK to establish a Department of Peace Studies in 1973, and it is currently ranked first in the world for the subject. Its School of Management is also ranked third best in the UK. The university is currently undergoing a £79 million redevelopment programme, to improve both its building and its accommodation, as well as its facilities for disabled students, who compose almost 6% of the total student population.
- History
- Motto
- Reputation
- Administration
- Schools
- Students
- Plate glass university
- References
- University of Bradford website
- University of Bradford Union
Management
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The Bradford School of Management is located 3 miles away from the main campus on a 13 acre parkland campus, Emm Lane. It teaches courses in the realm of business, finance, accountancy, management and marketing. As of 2005 the department will commence teaching an accredited LLB Law degree. It has a number of Masters degrees, MBA programmes and doctoral programmes running alongside undergraduate programmes.
Bradford University School of Management is also a leading European business school, regularly appearing as one of the top ten in league tables such as the Financial Times. It work with large corporates such as ASDA, the BBC and the airline – Emirates, as well as small businesses, providing management development, MBAs and research and graduate links. Its MBAs and undergraduates have some of the highest employment rates of any business school.
In 2005, the School of Management ranked 4th in the world for value of MBA program and 2nd in UK and 5th in Europe for its Master program by Financial Times.
According to Financial Times European Business School Rankings 2005 , School of Management achieved 20th out of 50 Best European B-schools and 10th in the UK.[11]
Its research is both international and interdisciplinary and has five main research groups covering all the main areas of management, and co-operative links and exchange agreements with 20 universities in America, Australia, Canada, Denmark, France, Holland, Spain and Sweden.
School of Management has full Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) accreditation for DBA and PhD programmes, portfolio Association of MBAs accreditation for MBA programmes and EQUIS accreditation as a School which only accredits to few best B-schools. The University has also started Law courses for the first time as well as MSC Total Performance Quality Management at a post graduate level.
The School of Management is one of the oldest university schools of management in the UK, being one of the first to offer an MBA.
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| Motto: | Give invention light (from Shakespeare‘s Sonnet 38) |
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| Established: | 1966 | |||||||||||||
| Chancellor: | Imran Khan[1] | |||||||||||||
| Vice-Chancellor: | Prof Mark Cleary | |||||||||||||
| Students: | 13,600[2] | |||||||||||||
| Undergraduates: | 9,110[2] | |||||||||||||
| Postgraduates: | 4,490[2] | |||||||||||||
| Location: | Bradford, England, UK (53°47′30″N 1°45′44″W / 53.79167, -1.76222Coordinates: 53°47′30″N 1°45′44″W / 53.79167, -1.76222) |
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| Colours: | University of Bradford
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| Affiliations: | EQUIS AMBA University Alliance |
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| Website: | http://www.brad.ac.uk/ | |||||||||||||
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