Durham University Business School

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Durham Business School
Established 1965
Type Business School
Dean Professor Tony Antoniou
Students 2,588
Location Durham, United Kingdom
Address Durham Business School, Mill Hill Lane, Durham DH1 3LB, United Kingdom
Campus Semi-rural
Website http://www.dur.ac.uk/dbs/

Durham Business School (DBS) in Durham, UK, is the international business school of Durham University. Established in 1965 it is one of the oldest business school in the UK. The School offers postgraduate degrees in management, finance and economics, including

and undergraduate degrees in the fields of Economics and Finance and Business, Finance and Accounting. The University's department of Economics and Finance and the Foundation for Small and Medium Enterprise Development merged with the Business School in 2002 to become the School of Economics, Finance and Business, more commonly known as Durham Business School or DBS. The school has over 10,000 alumni belonging to its Agora association.

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[edit] Organisational Relationships

The Business School has a variety of links with companies and organisations as well as other academic institutions.

The school's academic network includes the:

The school's business network includes:

[edit] Reputation & Scholarships

Durham Business School's has been rated as one of the top twenty in Europe and one of the top ten in the UK and top 100 World-wide.

  • The Economist ranked the MBA 57th in the world [2] in 2006 (62nd in 2005 & 84th in 2004)
  • The Financial Times global rankings ranked the MBA 96th in the world in 2007[3] and 16th Europe. DBS is ranked 2nd in the world for career progress (1st in the UK). [4]
  • Distance Learning MBA among the Financial Times’ world's top 25 distance learning MBAs.
  • Teaching in economics and finance received the maximum 24 score in the last QAA subject review.
  • Finance and Accounting research was graded 5* in the last Research Assessment Exercise.
  • The Association of MBAs recently re-accredited all MBA programmes for the maximum five-year period.
  • EQUIS accreditation awarded in 2005.

The school has a variety of scholarships aimed at postgraduates including[5]:

  • The Dean’s Scholarships for PhD, MBA and Masters programmes
  • Independent Newspaper Scholarships
  • British Chevening Scholarships
  • Shell Centenary and Shell Chevening Scholarships
  • Fulbright Awards (for US applicants)
  • Commonwealth Scholarship & Fellowship Plan
  • 9/11 Scholarship Fund
  • Hobsons Bursary
  • Rotary Ambassador scholarships

[edit] Degree Programmes

The school offers a wide range of degree programmes at both undergraduate and postgraduate level, as well as executive-level MAs. The following courses are currently offered:-

[edit] MBAs

  • Full-time MBA
  • Executive MBA (part-time)
  • Finance MBA
  • Distance Learning MBA
  • DBS and EBS Executive MBA
  • Caribbean MBA
  • Sinerghia MBA (Distance Learning)
  • Executive MBA @ Sinerghia

[edit] MSc and MA

The Master of Science award is finance-based and the Master of Arts is business management-based. The School offers the following programmes:

MSc

  • Accounting and Finance
  • Corporate and International Finance
  • Economics and Finance
  • Finance
  • Finance and Investment
  • International Banking and Finance
  • International Money, Finance and Investment.

MA

  • Entrepreneurship
  • Financial Management
  • Human Resource Management
  • Management (full-time and distance learning)
  • Marketing (full-time and distance learning)

[edit] Executive Masters and Research Degrees

The School offers two execuative masters in Enterprise Management and Business Transformation. The Execuative masters in Enterprise Management is a part-time (max 5 year) course that focuses of enterprise in finance, marketing and organisations as well as research into business. The business transformation executive masters focuses on developing an holistic view of business transformations and change as well as planning, developing and managing change in a business environment. The school also offers two research degrees; the DBA and MPhil/PhD. Both the degrees focus on research in business and micro and macro perspectives.

[edit] Undergraduate

  • Accounting and Finance
  • Business
  • Business Finance
  • Economics
  • Business Economics
  • Economics with French
  • Economics and Politics

[edit] Research

The school's research is thematic with research based in the following areas

  • Decision Science, Consumer Behaviour and Marketing
  • Economics
  • Entrepreneurship
  • Finance and Accounting
  • HRM and Organisational Behaviour
  • Public Management
  • Strategy and Organisation

The school also has five research centres based around the themes above.

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[edit] References

  1. ^ List of Partnerships
  2. ^ Economist Rating
  3. ^ Financial Times Rating
  4. ^ News Article from DBS about The Financial Times Ratings
  5. ^ List of Scholarships

[edit] See also

[edit] External links

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