University of Bath School of Management

Bath has taken the top spot for business in the most recent edition of The Sunday Times University Guide.

The Bath MBA is once again ranked 1st place in the UK for the category ‘salary increase’.

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Also ranked 1st in the UK for faculty quality.

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In its inaugural ranking of Executive MBA programmes the Bath Executive MBA programme has been placed within the world-wide elite being ranked 11th in the world. It is also ranked 2nd in the UK.

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The Bath Full-time MBA is ranked 2nd in the UK and it is ranked within the world's top 25 MBA programmes placing it amongst the global elite.

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Bath is rated 1st in the Business ranking for graduate jobs and 1st for the number of first class and 2:1 degrees.

It is also shown to have the lowest drop-out rate for business students.

We are ranked 1st for Accounting and Finance and 3rd for Business Studies (after Cambridge and Oxford)

The Times' guide measures eight aspects of a University's performance: student satisfaction, research quality, entry standards, staff-student ratio, spend on facilities and services, completion rates, good honours and graduate prospects.

The very high levels of student satisfaction and excellent career prospects of Bath graduates are highlighted as key strengths for the University. Overall the University is ranked 9th out of 117 universities across the UK. See the University press release.

The full ranking can be viewed on The Times Good University Guide website (subscription required).

The School of Management is ranked 1st for Accounting and Finance and 2nd for Business Studies.

Four measures are used in the compilation of the subject rankings: Student Satisfaction, Research Assessment, Entry Standards and Graduate Prospects.

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Bath’s MBA programme is ranked in the top 10 UK schools in the FT’s global top 100 ranking of MBA programmes. 

The programme is also ranked 4th in the UK and 7th in Europe for research.  It is placed 15th in the world for value for money and 20th in the world for career progress.

The full ranking can be viewed on the Financial Times' website.

Bath's MSc in Accounting and Finance is once again included in the Financial Times' ranking of pre-experience Masters in Finance programmes.

Only the top 40 programmes from across the globe made the ranking.

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The FT’s global ranking of Masters in Management programmes places the Bath MSc in Management amongst the global elite.

In addition to supplying data for the ranking, alumni were also asked to rate the teaching at their school in a selection of subjects. Bath has been ranked in the global top 10 for teaching in Economics.

The full ranking can be viewed on the Financial Times’ website.

Bath is once again included in this annual ranking of the top 80 business schools in Europe.

In the latest Business and Management Studies ranking published by The Guardian we have been ranked 3rd. We have been ranked:

• 2nd for Career after 6 months
• 2nd for Satisfied with the course
• 2nd for Satisfied with teaching

The full ranking can be viewed on the Guardian website.

In the latest edition of the ranking of top global MBAs América Economía has ranked Bath 15th in the world and 2nd in the UK.

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Bath MBA ranked 3rd in the UK by CNN Expansión

The Bath MBA has once again been recognised as one of the leading MBAs in the world in the international ranking published by CNN Expansión, Mexico’s leading business magazine.  Bath is placed 3rd in the UK in the 2013 ranking.

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The results of the influential National Student Survey (NSS), a census of students in their final year of undergraduate study, reveal that our students are amongst the most satisfied in the UK for Accounting and Finance, Business Administration and International Management and Modern Languages.

100% of students on our 4-year BSc Accounting & Finance degree are satisfied overall, and 97% of our BSc in Business Administration students are satisfied. This ranks us 1st for Accounting and Finance and 2nd for Business Administration. We also score 100% satisfaction for our BSc in International Management and Modern Languages (Spanish).

The School has consistently achieved both top research and teaching ratings in the Higher Education Funding Council for England ( HEFCE ) assessments.

The HEFCE was set up by the UK government to be responsible for the distribution of public money for teaching and research to universities and colleges. In the most recent Research Assessment Exercise ( RAE 2008 ), the University of Bath School of Management was ranked 5th in the UK for business and management research, equal to Oxford and LSE. An impressive ninety percent of the School’s faculty submitted to the RAE. Institutions were ranked on a weighted GPA of their quality profile, using a scale from 0 to 4*. Thirty percent of our research was rated 4* and therefore considered ‘world-leading in terms of originality, significance and rigour’. Seventy percent of our research was rated 3* and ‘internationally excellent’.

Bath is one of a select number of international business schools which have been accredited by EQUIS, the European Foundation for Management Development's (EFMD) quality inspectorate.

EQUIS is the leading international system of quality assessment, improvement and accreditation of higher education institutions in management and business administration. Its fundamental objective is to raise the standard of management education worldwide.

Bath MBA Programmes Accredited

Bath is one of a select number of international business schools whose MBA programme has been accredited by the Association of MBAs, the leading international accreditation body. Bath has been accredited since 1976. Accreditation by the Association of MBAs is the acknowledged hallmark of quality and professionalism in MBA provision.