MANCHESTER BUSINESS SCHOOL

'Manchester Business School' ('MBS') is the business and management school of the University of Manchester in England. ''The Independent'' wrote, in 2006, that MBS is "one of the grand old men of British business schools",^[1] and it was founded in 1965, at the same time as the London Business School, after the Franks Report recommended the establishment of two business schools attached to existing universities but with considerable autonomy.^[2] MBS was the first school in the United Kingdom to offer MBA courses and according to the Financial Times it is ranked among the top 25 in the world.

Contents

Background

Accreditation and reputation

Research Profile

Partner Universities

Notable alumni

External links

Background

The "new" Manchester Business School was formed in 2004 as a result of the merger of the Institute of Innovation Research (IoIR), The Victoria University of Manchester's School of Accounting and Finance, UMIST's Manchester School of Management and the "old" Manchester Business School (est.1965). The school comes under the Faculty of Humanities of the University of Manchester. Today it is with over 200 teaching staff not only the largest campus-based business school in the country, but can proudly claim to have a truly international student composition as three quarters of its student body is from outside the UK.
Manchester offers Ph.D, MBA (full time and executive), several specialist masters programmes as well as top-ranked undergraduate degrees. Entry requirements for undergraduate and postgraduate degrees are both highly competitive. For popular undergraduate courses such as Accounting and/or Finance there are just 70 places available for approximately 1600 applicants.^[3] As of 2006, a minimum work experience of 3 years and a good Graduate Management Admission Test is required for admission to the MBA programs. The 18 months full time MBA program is known for its ''"Manchester Method"'' which puts emphasis on learning by doing throughout the entire duration of the programme, including significant real life projects.^[4] In addition, the school offers the so-called ''"Manchester Gold"'' programme, a mentoring scheme to provide students with opportunities to meet regularly with professionals from a wide variety of sectors and industries. Last year's mentors, for example, came from high-profile companies such as Morgan Stanley, PricewaterhouseCoopers, Royal Dutch Shell Group, IBM Consulting and GlaxoSmithKline among many others.
Professor Michael Luger Ph.D MCP (UC Berkeley) MPA AB (Princeton) is the new Director since January 2007; he joined from the Kenan-Flagler Business School, part of University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Accreditation and reputation

Among the bodies validating MBS programmes, the British Psychological Society validates its Organizational Psychology masters, and the Chartered Institute for Personnel and Development its HRM MA degree. Its MBA is one of a small and select band worldwide which receive triple accreditation by AACSB International, AMBA and EQUIS.
The school was recently ranked among the top 25 business schools in the world for the second time for its MBA program, and 2nd in the world for its doctoral program [1]. It is placed 9th in Europe and 4th in the UK, while being 5th in the world for international business and 4th in Europe for percentage salary increase of its graduates. Regarding international experience, MBS is 6th in the world and 1st in the UK as well as is ranked in the world's top 13 for the career progress of its alumni. The average starting salary of Manchester's MBA graduates is US$108,615 - one of the highest of European business schools.
Other rankings, such as the most recent ''Forbes'' survey, which lists business schools on their "return on investment" via a survey of alumni salaries, put Manchester 3rd in the UK and 6th in Europe. In the ''Which MBA?'' survey MBS reached the 5th place in the UK, 8th in Europe and 30th in the world. The ''MBA Career Guide'' of international MBA recruiters placed Manchester 2nd in the UK, 7th in Europe and 15th in the world.^[5]
Furthermore, Manchester was selected by HM Treasury as part of the Highly Skilled Migrant Programme which exempts MBA-graduates from the world's top 50 business schools from the usual visa requirements to work in the UK. The Quality Assurance Agency for Higher Education (QAA) assessed the school's teaching quality with 24 out of 24 points.

Research Profile

In the previous 2001 Research Assessment Exercise (pre-merger) the 'old' Manchester Business School and Manchester School of Management were both rated 5. Manchester School of Accounting and Finance is one of only two accounting and finance schools in the UK rated as 6
★ by the RAE (ie with RAE 5
★ rating for two consecutive periods). The UK government body (HEFCE) ranks MBS teaching capabilities as 'Excellent', the highest category.
Manchester has several research centres of international standing. These include those in the areas of employment and labour studies, technology management and innovation, and critical management studies. Among its Professors with World-ranked reputations are Professor Fang-Lee Cooke (Chinese Business and Employment), Professor Colin Talbot (Public Policy and Management), Professor John Hassard (Organization Studies) Professor Jill Rubery FBA (Employment Studies) Professor Andrew Stark (Finance) and Professor Richard Whitley (Business Systems). Professor Karel Williams is currently co-heading a major new centre for the research of social change called CRESC.

Partner Universities

The Manchester Business School has 'one of the world's largest international exchange programmes' [2], among others with following institutions:
'Europe'

★ Wirtschaftsuniversitaet Wien - Austria

★ Université Catholique de Louvain - Belgium

★ Copenhagen Business School - Denmark

★ Helsinki School of Economics - Finland

★ Hanken Swedish School of Economics and Business Administration - Helsinki, Finland

★ Helsinki School of Economics & Business Administration - Finland

★ HEC Paris - France

★ ESSCA Angers - France

★ Bordeaux Business School - France

★ ESC Grenoble - France

★ IESEG, Lille - France

★ Université Jean-Moulin, Lyon III - France

★ Université de Strasbourg, Robert Schumann - France

★ Universite de Paris Dauphine - France

★ WHU Koblenz, Otto Beisheim Graduate School of Management - Germany

★ University of Mannheim - Germany

★ Universität zu Koeln - Germany

★ SDA Bocconi - Milan, Italy

★ Rotterdam School of Management - Netherlands

★ Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam - Netherlands

★ University of Amsterdam - Netherlands

★ Norwegian School of Management - Norway

★ Instituto de Empresa - Madrid, Spain

★ Universidad de Navarra - Spain

★ ESADE - Barcelona, Spain

★ Stockholm School of Economics - Sweden

★ Lund University - Sweden

★ University of St Gallen - Switzerland
'The Americas'

★ EAESP - Sao Paulo, Brazil

★ Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, COPPEAD, Brazil

★ McGill University - Montreal, Canada

★ McMaster University - Hamilton, Canada

★ University of Toronto - Toronto, Canada

★ York University - Toronto, Canada

★ University of British Columbia - Vancouver, Canada

★ Queens University - Kingston, Canada

★ Simon Fraser University - British Columbia, Canada

★ HEC Montreal - Canada

★ University of Calgary - Canada

★ Universidad Adolfo Ibanez - Santiago, Chile

★ Universidad de Los Andes - Bogota, Colombia

★ IPADE - Mexico City, Mexico

★ ESAN - Lima, Peru

★ Cornell University, The Johnson School - USA

★ New York University, Stern School of Business - USA

★ Ohio State University, Fisher College of Business - USA

★ College of William & Mary - USA

★ Indiana University, Kelley School of Business - USA

★ Pennsylvania State University - USA

★ Southern Methodist University - Texas, USA

★ Case Western Reserve University - USA

★ Emory University, Goizueta Business School - Atlanta, USA

★ University of California - USA

★ University of Chicago - USA

★ University of Florida - USA

★ University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign - USA

★ University of Maryland, Robert H Smith School of Business - USA

★ University of Minnesota - USA

★ University of North Carolina, Kenan-Flagler Business School - USA

★ University of South Carolina - USA

★ University of Southern California - Marshall School of Business, USA

★ University of Texas at Austin - McCombs School of Business - USA

★ University of Washington - Seattle, USA

★ Washington University - St Louis, USA

★ Vanderbilt University, Owen Graduate School of Management - USA

★ IESA - Caracas, Venezuela
'Asia-Pacific and Africa'

★ University of Melbourne, Melbourne Business School - Australia

★ University of Sydney - Australia

★ University of New South Wales - Australia

★ CEIBS - Shanghai, China

★ Tsinghua University - Beijing, China

★ Fudan University, Shanghai, China

★ Hong Kong University of Science & Technology - Hong Kong

★ Chinese University of Hong Kong - Hong Kong

★ University of Otago - New Zealand

★ National Taiwan University - Taipei, Taiwan

★ Chulalongkorn University, Sasin Graduate Institute of Business - Bangkok, Thailand

★ Indian Institute of Management - Ahmedabad, India

★ International University of Japan - Niigata, Japan

★ Singapore Management University - Singapore

★ National University of Singapore - Singapore

★ University of the Witwatersrand - Johannesburg, South Africa

Notable alumni

★ Richard Anao, Chairman, Nigerian Accounting Standards Board

★ Tony Bickford, Former Chairman, QAS

★ Liam Byrne, Member of Parliament and Minister of State

★ Tom Bloxham, founder of influential regeneration firm Urban Splash

★ Roger Crook, Chief Executive Officer, DHL Latin America

★ Don Cruickshank, Chairman of SMG plc and former chairman of London Stock Exchange

★ Andy Duncan, Chief Executive of Channel 4 television

★ Keith Edelman, Managing Director of Arsenal Football Club

★ Rijkman Groenink, Chairman of the Managing Board, ABN AMRO

★ Teo Chee Hean, current Minister for Defence of Singapore

★ Robert H. Herz, Chairman, US Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB)

★ Nicholas Lander, restaurant critic for the Financial Times and consultant to the restaurant industry

★ Sir Terry Leahy, Chief Executive Officer of Tesco, the largest British supermarket chain. He was chosen as Britain's "Business Leader of the Year" in 2003 and the Fortune European Businessman of the Year for 2003 and was selected as Britain's most admired business leader by Management Today in 2005

★ Tony Lloyd, Member of Parliament

★ Michael D. Parker, Chief Executive Officer, BNFL

★ Andrew Pettigrew, currently dean of the University of Bath School of Management

★ Jurek Piasecki, Chairman and Chief Executive, Goldsmith Group plc

★ Brian Quinn, Former Deputy Governor of the Bank of England and Chairman of Celtic F.C board

★ James Ross, Former Chairman, The Littlewoods Organisation

★ Paul Skinner, Chairman, Rio Tinto

★ Brenda Smith, Group Managing Director of Ascent Media Group and Former Managing Director of Granada Television

★ Vijit Supinit, Chairman, Stock Exchange of Thailand

★ David Varney, Executive Chairman, HM Revenue and Customs

★ Andreas Vranas, Vice-Governor, National Bank of Greece

External links

★ Manchester Business School – official website

★ The University of Manchester

★ Student Life