Warwick Business School

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Warwick Business School
Established 1967
Type Public business school
Dean Mark P. Taylor
Admin. staff 319 (173 academic, 131 professional support, 15 visiting)
Students 7,539 (including 98 visiting/exchange)
Undergraduates 1,186
Postgraduates 3,162 (2,726 MBA and MPA, 438 specialist masters)
Doctoral students 182
Location Coventry, United Kingdom
Campus Semi-rural
Website www.wbs.ac.uk

Warwick Business School (WBS) is an academic department of the University of Warwick, that was originally established in 1967 as the School of Industrial and Business Studies. It is one of the most prestigious and highly selective business schools in the world.[1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8] The Business School offers undergraduate, postgraduate and PhD degree programs, as well as non-degree executive education for individuals and companies. Its MBA program, known as the Warwick MBA, is offered as a one-year full-time program, an executive MBA, and by distance learning. WBS is sited in three buildings on the University of Warwick campus on the border of the City of Coventry and the County of Warwickshire in the UK. It has a semi-rural green belt location.

History

Lake at the rear of the school

Warwick's School of Industrial and Business Studies (SIBS) was founded in 1967, with Brian Houlden as Chair, a total of five academic staff and 24 students across three programmes (MSc Management & Business Studies, MSc Management Science & Operational Research, Doctoral programme). It quickly gained a reputation for excellent research, particularly in the field of industrial relations. The Industrial Relations Research Unit, founded by Hugh Clegg in 1970 focused on achieving a better understanding of workplace industrial relations in general and workplace trade unionism in particular, in a time when the UK was perceived to suffer greatly from industrial strife and poor economic performance.

In 1981, the MSc in Management was renamed the Warwick MBA. At its 20th anniversary in 1987, SIBS was renamed Warwick Business School. The department had grown to over 100 staff, 815 students and 11 programmes. In 1997, following expansion of the distance learning MBA in particular, the staff tally was over 260, with 3,160 students across 17 programmes.

In 2000, a new Executive MBA teaching centre was opened, the first of four phases of development of new premises for WBS. Further phases opened in 2001 and 2006, increasing the teaching capacity of WBS dramatically. This was followed by aggressive recruitment of academic faculty. In 2006, there were a total of 319 staff and 7,539 students across 25 degree programs, from over 100 countries worldwide.

Research

Warwick Business School is recognized as one of the leading research institutions in business and management. The 2008 Research Assessment Exercise positions Warwick 5th in the UK in business and management.[9]

As of 2006, the WBS academic faculty consisted of 113 teaching staff, 60 researchers, and 15 visiting academics.[10]All academics are members of a teaching subject group, a research centre or unit, and often of both. Each teaching subject group has a group convenor or head, and devolved group management. Each research centre has a director, and has similarly devolved management. Research centers may have a board with external representation to ensure practical relevance of research strategy.

Rankings & Reputation

School rankings (overall)
Worldwide MBA
Business Insider[11] 26
CNN Expansion[12] 25
Economist[13] 29
Financial Times[14] 25
  • Financial Times Global MBA Ranking 2014 placed the Warwick MBA: 25th in the World, 10th in Europe and 4th in UK.[15]
  • The Guardian University Guide ranks Warwick Business School second only after Oxford's Saïd Business School Business and Management studies for 2014.[16]
  • QS World University Rankings "Top MBA 2014" ranks the Warwick MBA by distance learning 2nd in the world - just below IE Business School and above Kelley School of Business.[17]
  • The Warwick Executive MBA was ranked 21st in the world in 2013 by the Financial Times.[18]
  • Eduniversal ranked Warwick Business School 30th in the world and in the Top Tier (5 Palmes League) of Business Schools.[19]
  • Financial Times Global MBA Ranking placed the Warwick MBA: 28th in the World, 10th in Europe and 4th in UK for 2013.[20]
  • Business Insider ranks the Warwick Business School 26th in the world in 2013.[21]
  • Forbes ranked the Warwick MBA as the 7th best program outside the USA based on return on investment, and the 6th best one year program in 2013.[22][23]
  • Financial Times Global MBA Ranking 2012 placed Warwick MBA: 27th in the World, 9th in Europe, 4th in UK, 3rd in the World for Best Value for Money.[24]
  • Poets & Quants’ rank Warwick Business School No. 16 in Top 50 Non-U.S. MBA Programs.[25] The FT also rates WBS as the UK's fastest rising Business Schools in the same year.[26]
  • América Economía ranks WBS's Global MBA as the 44th Best in the world for 2011.[27]
  • Bloomberg Businessweek ranks Warwick Business School as one of the Best Business schools in Europe in 2010.[28]
  • CNN Expansion ranked the Warwick MBA 25th in the world in its 2010 "Best MBA in the World" report.[29]
  • The Economist Intelligence Unit ranked the Warwick MBA by distance learning 3rd in the world while QS ranked it 1st in UK and 2nd in the world.[30]
  • The Economist also placed Warwick's full-time MBA program 29th in the world, top 10 in Europe and 6th in the world for the final salary of its graduates, placing it ahead of other top international business schools such as Said Business School (Oxford), Yale School of Management, and ESADE.[31]
  • WBS is one of only 3 UK business schools to be awarded the top five-star (5*) research rating by the Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE), the others being London Business School and Lancaster's School of Management.[32]

Accreditation

WBS is one of only 59 Business Schools in the world with Triple accreditation: The Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business AACSB, the Association of MBAs AMBA and the European Quality Improvement System EQUIS.[33][34][35]

Notable People

Academic Staff

Söhnke M. Bartram : Professor of Finance

Nick Chater : Professor of Behavioural Science

Andrew Oswald : Pro Dean of Research and Professor of Behavioural Science, Professor of Economics

Tobias Preis : Associate Professor of Behavioral Science and Finance

Andrew Sentance CBE : Professor of Practise in Sustainable Business, Senior Economic Advisor PriceWaterhouseCoopers

Mark P. Taylor : Professor of Finance

Alumni

Deans

  • Brian Houlden (1967–1973)
  • Roger Fawthrop (1973–1976)
  • Derek Waterworth (1976–1978)
  • Robert Dyson (1978–1981)
  • Thom Watson (1981–1983)
  • George Bain (1983–1989)
  • Robin Wensley (1989–1994)
  • Robert Galliers (1994–1998)
  • Robert Dyson (1998–2000)
  • Howard Thomas (2000–2010)
  • Mark P. Taylor (2010–present)

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Financial Times Business School Rankings 2012". 
  2. ↑ "Top MBA - Business School Rankings 2013". 
  3. ↑ "Which MBA - The Economist 2013". 
  4. ↑ "Poets & Quants: Business School Rankings 2012". 
  5. ↑ "Find MBA: Business School Rankings 2013". 
  6. ↑ "Business Insider: The World's Best Business Schools Rankings 2013". 
  7. ↑ SBS Swiss Business School: Global MBA Rankings 2011
  8. ↑ CEO Magazine: Global MBA Super Table 2013
  9. ↑ "RAE (Education),Business and management studies (Education subject),Research (Higher education),Higher education (Universities etc.),Education". The Guardian (London). 2008-12-18. 
  10. ↑ FT: Business Education: Faculty 2013
  11. ↑ "The World's Best Business Schools". Business Insider. 2013. Retrieved 2014-01-12. 
  12. ↑ "Ranking:Los Mejores MBA en el mundo 2013". CNN Expansion. 2013. Retrieved 2013-07-11. 
  13. ↑ "Which MBA". The Economist. 2013. Retrieved 2014-02-11. 
  14. ↑ "Global MBA Rankings". Financial Times. 2014. Retrieved 2014-02-11. 
  15. ↑ Financial Times: Global MBA Rankings 2014
  16. ↑ The Guardian: University guide 2014: League table for Business and Management studies
  17. ↑ The QS Distance/Online Global MBA Ranking 2014
  18. ↑ "EMBA rankings 2013". FT.com. Retrieved 2014-01-17. 
  19. ↑ ED Universal Business Schools Raking by Palmes
  20. ↑ Financial Times Global MBA Ranking 2013
  21. ↑ Business Insider: The World's Best Business Schools 2013
  22. ↑ Forbes: Best International Business Schools
  23. ↑ Forbes: Best Business Schools Rankings
  24. ↑ Financial Times Global MBA Ranking
  25. ↑ Poets & Quants: Top 50 Non-U.S. MBA Programs
  26. ↑ Rankings FT: European Business School Rankings 2012
  27. ↑ América Economía: Global MBA Rankings 2011
  28. ↑ Business Week: Europe's Top B-Schools 2010
  29. ↑ Best MBA in the World
  30. ↑ "Top 10 Distance Learning Programs". Which MBA. Retrieved 2008-02-18. 
  31. ↑ Economist: Which MBA
  32. ↑ "2001 Research Assessment Exercise Results, Unit of Assessment: 43 Business and Management Studies". HERO. Retrieved 2008-02-18. 
  33. ↑ "AACSB Schools Accredited in Business"
  34. ↑ "Association of MBAs (AMBA), Accredited MBA Programs"
  35. ↑ "EQUIS, Accredited Members"

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