| Said Business School | |
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The Said Business School |
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| Established | 1996[1] |
| Website | www.sbs.ox.ac.uk |
Saïd Business School (SBS) is the business school of the University of Oxford in England, located on the north side of Frideswide Square on the former site of Oxford Rewley Road railway station. It is the University's centre of learning for graduate and undergraduate students in business, management and finance. Established in 1996, the Saïd Business School is one of the youngest top-tier business schools world wide. In spite of its age, it is consistently ranked as one of the world's leading business schools. It is named after Wafic Saïd, chief founding benefactor of the school.[2]
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Saïd Business School's main degree programmes are its one-year Master of Business Administration (MBA), the 21-month Executive MBA, the DPhil Programme, the one-year MSc in Financial Economics in cooperation with the Economics Department and the one-year MSc in Law and Finance (MLF) in conjunction with the Oxford Law Faculty. The School also runs 18-month Masters Diplomas in Finance, Strategy, Management and Leadership as its Postgraduate education designed to offer senior executives a strategic overview of management. These degree programs were launched in 2006 and attracts Senior Executives from across the world covering other aspects of the MBA curriculum, including marketing and operations management.
The School runs an MSc in Major Programme Management in association with the BT Centre for Major Programme Management. It also offers two MEng programmes and the top ranked[3] BA in Economics and Management jointly with the Department of Economics. It has regularly been the most competitive course to get into in Oxford, with an average acceptance rate of only 8% over the last three years.[4]
| School rankings (overall) | |
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| Worldwide MBA | |
| América Economía[5] | 20 |
| CNN Expansion[6] | 18 |
| Economist[7] | 60 |
| Financial Times[8] | 27 |
The School is ranked number 6 in the world by the eduniversal rankings in 2011.[9] In 2010, Forbes ranked the School 1st among non-US business schools with most satisfied MBAs. The MBA programme was ranked 10th among non-US MBA programs in the 2008 Business Week MBA rankings.[10][11] The School was ranked 16th worldwide and 2nd in the UK in the Financial Times Global MBA Rankings 2010.[12] The Business School was also ranked top 5 among non-US One-Year Business School by Forbes in 2010. In the 2010 QS Global 200 Business Schools Report,[13] in which schools are indexed based on their region, the school was placed 3rd in Europe. Furthermore, the BA in Economics & Management was ranked as the top undergraduate business programme by the Guardian.[3] According to former UK MP David Marquand, the Business School is the "future of Oxford University" and is "likely to significantly impact public policy".
The Oxford Centre for Management Studies (OCMS) was founded in 1965. It was the precursor to both what is now Saïd Business School and to Templeton College, the University's business-focused postgraduate college. Initially, OCMS was an "associate institution" of the University, providing executive, graduate and later undergraduate courses in Management Studies. OCMS was renamed Templeton College in 1983, and the University of Oxford School of Management Studies was created in 1991, taking over the undergraduate and graduate degree courses from the college.[14] Saïd Business School was formed in 1996 out of the School of Management Studies.
The new business school building was completed in 2001 with a £23 million benefaction from Saudi-Syrian businessman Wafic Saïd. The building includes an amphitheatre and the Sainsbury Library, and was designed by Edward Jones and Sir Jeremy Dixon. It was built on the site of Oxford Rewley Road railway station. The opening on 5 November 2001 was accompanied by protests by students mainly because of the controversial nature of Wafic Saïd's donation (his wealth is partly derived from advising on defense related contracts between the UK and Saudi-Arabia, in particular the Al-Yamamah arms deal[15]).
Since 2005, SBS also runs Oxford University's business executive education programme (formerly run by Templeton College). As part of the development of executive education, the school had a groundbreaking ceremony to build an additional building on the Park End Street site (also designed by Dixon and Jones). Wafic Saïd has agreed to donate a further £15 million to fund the building; the remainder will be fundraised by the University as part of their main fundraising campaign.
SBS also has a close relationship with the Skoll Foundation[16] via the Skoll Centre for Social Entrepreneurship[17] which promotes social entrepreneurship.
The Saïd Business School is a fully integrated department of the university. This allows it to draw on Oxford's teaching and research resources across a range of subjects, including sociology, economics, law, psychology, politics and international relations. As examples of interdisciplinary work, faculty and researchers are focused on new insights into issues such as the politics of global business, the rise of science entrepreneurship, the management of innovation, and the social and commercial impact of information systems and the Internet.
The school have generated research in many areas, including: accounting; finance; marketing; organisational behaviour; strategy, entrepreneurship and international business; operations management; and the management of science and technology. The subjects of the research are diverse, ranging from the automotive, aerospace and telecommunications industries to professional service firms, the health service and the public sector.
The research centres are helping particular sectors of the economy to wrestle with the challenges they face and to discover new directions through research. They include:
The interdisciplinary Oxford-Man Institute of Quantitative Finance also draws many of its researchers from SBS.
The Saïd Business School at the University of Oxford has secured planning permission for a new building to stand next to the existing School building. The new building has been designed by the leading architectural practice Dixon Jones, which created the School's critically acclaimed original building. It is anticipated that total costs of the building will be in the region of £25 million.
The new building will provide the additional facilities the School requires for a significant expansion of its executive education activities and will complement the existing executive education resources at Egrove Park (formerly belonging to Templeton College) at Kennington on the outskirts of Oxford, where much of the School's executive education is currently delivered. The building will also allow for expansion of the School's degree programmes which is expected to be complete by Spring 2012.