School awards highest number of prizes at this year's Graduation Prizegiving
The School of Management held its annual Graduation Prizegiving Ceremony on July 6th, a few hours before the official graduation ceremony took place at historic Bath Abbey.
27 students were awarded prizes this year, more than in any previous year.
Prizes were presented to the most successful graduates from the BSc in Business Administration (BBA), the BSc in Accounting and Finance (BAF) and the BSc in International Management and Modern Languages (IMML).
Each year, the prizes are sponsored by a range of companies, many of which work with the School of Management on a regular basis, providing work placements and projects as well as recruiting our graduates.
This year’s sponsoring companies were: Nationwide, Danone, Deloitte, L’Oréal, Zurich, BG Group, Accenture, Ernst & Young, BP and PricewaterhouseCoopers.
L’Oréal, Zurich, BP and PwC are all members of the School’s Corporate Partners Scheme.
The School was very pleased to welcome back two of its own alumni to present prizes; Ed Hamilton, who graduated from the BSc in Business Administration in 2010 and Cerys Anthony, who graduated from the MSc in Advanced Management Practice degree in 2010. Ed now works as an Analyst for BP Risk Manager and Cerys is an Analyst at Accenture.
Students, staff, friends and family gathered to listen to words of congratulation from the Dean, Professor Richard Elliott, followed by an invitation from Diana Braddock, Alumni and External Relations Manager, to take advantage of the School’s successful Alumni Network.
The prizes and winners were:
| Prize | Winner |
| The Professor Raymond Thomas Prize for the Highest Average Mark in Strategy Units: | Patrick Brewer (BBA) |
| Nationwide Prize for Highest Average Mark in HRM Units: | Philippa Quince (BBA) |
| Danone Prize for Highest Average Mark in Marketing Units | Philippa Quince (BBA) |
| Danone Prize for IMML Work Placement | Michelle Wakeling (IMML) |
| L’Oreal Prize for Best Student in Business and the Natural Environment: | Nick Chinnock (IMML) Jessica Johnson (BBA) Philippa Quince (BBA) Robert Ryopponen (BBA) Kayleigh Shaxton (BBA) Todor Tochev (BBA) Jenna Wilcox (BBA) |
| Zurich Prize for Highest Mark in Treasury Management | Daniel Strasburger (BAF) |
| BG Group Prize for Highest Mark in Supply Management | Joanne Smith (BAF) |
| Accenture Prize for Best BBA Project Group | Caidan Beydagli Jasmina Bharwani Silviya Dencheva Nadine Den Hartog Neda Kostadinova |
| Ernst & Young Prize for Best Overall BAF Student (4-year) | Alexander Beard |
| BP Prize for Best Students in Business Strategy in the Global Economy | William Bowen (BBA) Daniel Smythe (BBA) Amy Underwood (BBA) |
| PricewaterhouseCoopers Prize for Highest Mark in Management Consulting: Theory & Practice | Jenna Wilcox (BBA) |
| PricewaterhouseCoopers Prize for Best Overall BBA Student | Neda Kostadinova |
| PricewaterhouseCoopers Prize for Best Overall Year 3 BAF Student | Rachel Martin |
| PricewaterhouseCoopers Prize for Best Overall IMML Student | Christopher Vost |
Notes for Editors
The School of Management's undergraduate degrees are highly-rated and our graduates are actively pursued by employers. Other opportunities to work with the School exist in the form student projects and placements, MBA projects and recruitment, tailored executive development programmes, and academic consultancy. Please visit our Business Connections pages for further information. We look to establish long term, multi-layered relationships with organisations through our Corporate Partners Scheme, which draw on the wide range of services that we provide.
For further information / press enquiries, contact:
Liz Alvey, Marketing Officer
School of Management
University of Bath
Claverton Down
Bath BA2 7AY
UK
Tel:+ 44 (0) 1225 383526
Email: pr@management.bath.ac.uk
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 Sunday 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, 460 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 Humanities and Social Sciences.
