University of Exeter Business School

University of Exeter Business School
Type Business School
Established 1998
Parent institution
 University of Exeter
Director Professor David Allen
Administrative staff
 227
Location Exeter, United Kingdom
Campus Urban
Website http://business-school.exeter.ac.uk/
The University of Exeter Business School's Building:One located on Streatham Campus, Exeter

The University of Exeter Business School is the business school of the University of Exeter and was founded in 1998. Located on the University of Exeter’s Streatham Campus the School provides higher education in business, economics, finance, accounting and management programmes for undergraduates, postgraduate masters students (including MBA students) and business professionals.[1] The University of Exeter Business School is one of six colleges within the University of Exeter.

History

The University began offering an MBA in 1988, with the formation of the Centre for Management Studies. In 1998 the University of Exeter Business School was launched with the Departments of Management, Economics, Accounting and Finance merged. At the time of its formation, the Business School employed 38 full-time academics, and by 2013, this number had risen to over 200.[2]

The Business School was awarded EQUIS accreditation in 2013.[3]

It is directly responsible for all teaching and planning in its own area, and is required to produce an ‘Education Plan’, a ‘Research and Development Plan’, a ‘Financial Plan’, a ‘Staff Plan’ and an ‘External Affairs’ plan for approval by the University’s executive function.

College status

The University of Exeter Business School has an international student body made up of 93 different nationalities, faculty from 29 countries, 50 partner institutions in 24 countries worldwide and 20,195 alumni, almost half of whom are based internationally across 155 countries. The table below demonstrates the number of professional services staff and students in the Business School from the 2015/16 academic year [2] across its programmes.

Level No.
Staff 227
Undergraduate Taught 2900
Postgraduate Taught and MBA 890
Postgraduate Research 92

Reputation

The University of Exeter Business School is a UK-based international Business School which is part of a Russell Group university ranked within the Global Top 100 according to The Times Higher Education World Rankings 2015.[4] The Business School is currently rated in the top 12 for all subject areas according to The Times and The Sunday Times University Guide 2016.[5]

References

  1. ↑ "University of Exeter Business School". Retrieved 2008-03-20.
  2. 1 2 "About the University of Exeter Business School". Retrieved 2008-03-20.
  3. ↑ http://business-school.exeter.ac.uk/news/currentstories/title_322027_en.html
  4. ↑ https://www.timeshighereducation.com/world-university-rankings
  5. ↑ http://www.thesundaytimes.co.uk/sto/University_Guide/
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