Strathclyde Business School

The Strathclyde Business School (SBS) is one of the five schools which constitute the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow, Scotland. It includes a number of departments which offer undergraduate and postgraduate courses, and the Department of Management which specialises in postgraduate business courses.

Introduction

Strathclyde Business School (SBS) started offering a full-time one year MBA in 1966, the first UK school to do so.

The Business School has over 170 academic staff, over 2,100 undergraduate and 600 full-time (1,800 part-time) post-graduate students, and a turnover of over £23m. The 13 subject Departments and specialist units embrace not only the functional disciplines of management but also some of the supporting social sciences, and combine breadth with strength in depth. They collaborate to provide a full and varied programme of specialist and inter-disciplinary courses, and offer great flexibility and choice to students.

The SBS departments are

* Accounting and Finance
* Economics
* European Policies Research Centre
* Department of Management
* Hospitality and Tourism Management, Department of
* Human Resource Management
* Hunter Centre for Entrepreneurship
* Management Science
* Marketing

Activities

This School pioneered developments in undergraduate teaching, the MBA and the Doctorate of Business Administration. They pioneered the study of Marketing and host one of the largest Departments in the country. The Scottish Hotel School is the only hotel school to be fully integrated into a business school in a British university. They initiated cross-disciplinary studies in Technology and Business Studies, and International Business and Modern Languages.

The Business School offered the first DBA (Doctor of Business Administration) in the country and introduced new methods of study for the MBA, being awarded the Queen's Award for Export Achievement for the open learning programme. Many in our extensive range of postgraduate instructional courses have received Research Council recognition, as have our facilities for research.

The Business School offers specialist training, research and consultancy services to meet the needs of individuals and organisations in most business sectors.

The Business School has achieved, from the Funding Councils, excellent and commendable ratings for the quality of its teaching, and international and national excellence ratings for its research.

It has full accreditation from the three main international accrediting bodies (AMBA, AACSB and EQUIS) being one of a handful of schools to do so. Less than 1% of business schools in the world hold "triple accreditation" - Strathclyde is one of them.Fact|date=September 2008

Recent years have seen the prestige of the school slip somewhat largely due to increased competition from recent entrants to the MBA market such as Oxford University and Cambridge University. But in 2008, the Times Higher Education Ranking listed the Strathclyde MBA as the Number 1 in the Scotland, 30th in the World and the best MBA worldwide in terms of value for money.

Department of Accounting & Finance

The department has been ranked as the top Accounting & Finance department in the UK in the Independent's Good University Guide Subject League Table for 2009. [http://www.thegooduniversityguide.org.uk/single.htm?ipg=6643]

Department of Management

Part of the wider Strathclyde Business School, the Department of Management pioneered the one year full-time MBA (Master of Business Administration) in the UK 1966. The school went on to offer the first part time MBA and distance learning MBA in the UK in 1976 and 1983 respectively. The school was also the first UK provider of the DBA (Doctor of Business Administration).

Strathclyde is one of the many business schools in the world to hold international accreditation from the three industry hallmarks of excellence - AMBA, AACSB and EQUIS.

The Department of Management has 10 established international centres, in Europe, the Gulf and South East Asia, where the MBA is available, with the first centre opening in 1988.

As well as the prestigious MBA, the Department of Management also offers the MSc in Business and Management (MBM), a one year postgraduate programme. The MBM has become one of the first programmes in the world to be recommended for PEMM (Pre Experience Masters Degrees in General Management)accreditation as launched by AMBA in March 2005.

The Department of Management also offers the MSc in Business and Information Technology Systems (BITS) programme and a range of executive development programmes.

FT MBA Ranking

The Strathclyde MBA has been ranked 30th in the top 100 full time MBA programmes in the world as compiled by the Financial Times (published January 28).

Strathclyde's MBA programme was one of just 15 UK programmes to be ranked in the top 100 with Strathclyde taking joint 7th position in the UK and 13th in Europe. In addition, SBS' ranking means it is the top programme in Scotland according to this year's figurescite web|url=http://rankings.ft.com/global-mba-rankings
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Post-graduate Courses

* MBA (Master of Business Administration) [http://www.gsb.strath.ac.uk/mba/]
* MBA with Specialisation in Leadership Studies
* MSc in Business Information Technology Systems
* MSc in Business and Management
* Economics, Scottish Doctoral Programme
* MSc in Economic Management and Policy
* MSc/PG Dip. in Environmental Science
* MSc/PG Dip. in Environmental Studies
* MSc/PG Dip. in Human Resource Management (full-time)
* MSc/PG Dip. in Human Resource Management for the Tourism and Hospitality Industries
* MCM in Communications Management
* MSc in International and Financial Economics
* MSc/PG Dip./PG Cert. in Technology Entrepreneurship
* MSc/PG Dip. in Finance [http://www.strath.ac.uk/accfin/postgraduatecourses/]
* MSc in International Accounting and Finance [http://www.strath.ac.uk/accfin/postgraduatecourses/]
* MSc in International Banking and Finance [http://www.strath.ac.uk/accfin/postgraduatecourses/]
* MSc/PG Dip. in International Hospitality Management
* MSc/PG Dip. in International Marketing
* MSc/PG Dip. in Marketing
* Master of International Management
* MSc/PG Dip. in Operational Research
* MSc/PG Dip. in Personnel Management (part-time)
* MSc in Procurement Management
* MSc/PG Dip. in Science, Technology and Sustainability
* MSc/PG Dip. in Tourism
* MSc/PG Dip. in Tourism in Developing Countries

Research Degrees

* Accounting and Finance Research Interests (Core Accounting, Market Based Accounting & Corporate Finance, Finance Theory, Empirical Finance)
* Economics Research Interests
* European Policies Research Centre
* Graduate School of Environmental Studies Research Interests
* Human Resource Management Research Interests
* Hunter Centre for Entrepreneurship Research Interests
* Information Science Research Interests
* Management Science Research Interests
* Marketing Research Interests
* Scottish Hotel School Research Interests
* Strathclyde Graduate School of Business Research Interests

References

External links

* [http://www.strath.ac.uk/business School website]