School of Management
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Introduction
With over forty years’ experience of delivering high quality management programmes, the School of Management is one of the oldest established business schools in the UK. It has consistently achieved both top research (5A) and teaching (“excellent”) ratings in the Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE) assessments and is dedicated to integrating high quality teaching with innovative research.
Bath’s credentials stem from our worldclass teaching faculty, many of whom are involved in leading-edge research. This means that all taught programmes benefit from the work of our academics. Our students are able to test ideas in a stimulating and intellectually challenging environment gaining the latest thinking from researchers at the cutting-edge of their fields of interest.
Rankings
The School of Management is consistently ranked among the top business schools in the UK with the Times Good University Guide 2009, positioning Bath 4th in their Business Studies ranking. The Financial Times’ 2007 ranking of Masters in Management programmes placed the Bath MSc in Management at number 7 in the UK and 30th in Europe. The Financial Times’ ranking of the top business schools in Europe ranks Bath 17th in the UK and 38th in Europe. The Bath MBA continues to rank highly, placed 69th in the world by the Financial Times in 2008.
Research specialisms
The School of Management provides a strongly supportive, vibrant research culture, developed through the provision of internal resources, research grants and awards. We are committed to growth in order to embrace new areas of management research and to reinforce existing strengths.
Our research is structured around four issue-based clusters, which span functional disciplines:
- Organisations, Work, Leadership and Change
- Decision, Information and Risk Analysis
- Business, Regulation and Society
- Complex Networks and Systems
Within the School there are also Research Centres spanning a wide-range of management issues. Our Research Centres overlap and interlink with the interests of our subject groups.
International and industrial links
The School of Management works with organisations on local, national and global projects and our corporate relationships extend across a wide range of industry sectors. Much of our research is conducted in collaboration with private and public organisations at national, European and international levels, complemented by joint research with other academic institutions on an international basis.
Excellent career prospects
Our students are highly employable and our graduates are targeted by top recruiters. The School has excellent links with many blue-chip companies as well as smaller and not-for-profit organisations.
Here are some examples of the organisations which our graduates have joined:
Accenture, American Express, Arcadia Group, Barclays Bank, BP, British Airways, BT, Commercial Bank of Greece, Deloitte, Dell, Department of Trade & Industry (DTI), Dyson, Electricité de France, Ernst & Young, GlaxoSmithKline, Greenpeace, Gulf International Bank, Hayes Montrose, IBM, John Lewis Partnership, JP Morgan, Kleinwort Benson, KPMG, Legend Group (China), Lever Fabergé, Lloyds of London, Marks & Spencer, Mars, Motorola, National Health Service (NHS), Nestlé, Nomura International, PricewaterhouseCoopers, Renault (France), Royal Air Force, Saatchi & Saatchi, Sainsbury’s, Syntegra, Shell, Vauxhall, Ventura.