Bath ranked 5th globally for practice papers published in INFORMS journals
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The Institute for Operations Research and Management Science (INFORMS) is the world's pre-eminent society for Operational Research and Management Science. It publishes a dozen leading journals in this area, including Operations Research, Management Science and Interfaces.
INFORMS have regularly provided a ranking of university faculties’ papers and their impact on the INFORMS literature. This ranking serves to provide a gauge of how different universities are contributing to the profit and non-profit worlds.
The ranking, published in the December 2009 issue of its magazine OR/MS Today, lists Bath as one of the five worldwide institutions who are providing the highest number of practice papers which are attributable to that institution, based on the author’s primary academic affiliation.
The University of Bath is placed 5th jointly with London Business School and the University of Toronto.
Notes to Editors
Ranked 5th in the 2008 RAE, we are a firmly established leading international centre for management research. We have been consistently ranked in the top ten in Europe for research in the Financial Times MBA rankings. Our reputation is supported by leading academics who inform policy at the highest levels of business and society. Our research is structured around six issue-based Subject Groups. These contain cross-functional Research Centres, which focus and formalise our major research initiatives.
The Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS) is the largest professional society in the world for professionals in the field of Operations Research (O.R), Management Science, and Business Analytics. INFORMS publishes 12 scholarly journals.
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General Notes For Editors:
The University of Bath School of Management has consistently achieved both top research and teaching ratings in the UK's Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE) assessments. In the 2008 Research Assessment Exercise (RAE), the School was rated 5th in the UK for management research.
We are one of a select number of international business schools accredited by EQUIS, the European Foundation for Management Development's quality inspectorate and the Bath MBA has been accredited by the Association of MBAs (AMBA) since 1976. The School is consistently ranked among the top UK business schools by The Times, The Financial Times and The Guardian.
The centrality of research to teaching is an essential feature of all our programmes. The School offers a full range of programmes from undergraduate to postgraduate up to PhD level and post-experience programmes including the world-ranked Bath MBA. The School also provides tailored executive development programmes for middle and senior management.
The School of Management has a faculty of around 90 teaching and research staff, including visiting academics, with a support team of around 70 managerial and administrative staff. Research income averages £2 million per annum. There are approximately 2,100 students in total comprising some 200 MBA students, 370 Master’s students, 210 full- and part-time research students, and over 1100 undergraduates following BSc degrees. The School also runs joint undergraduate programmes with Departments in the Faculties of Engineering and Design, Science, and European Studies and Modern Languages.
