Lancaster University
LUMS is
a major School founded in 1964 with around 120 members of faculty, including 25
Professors, covering the full range of management subjects. The School now constitutes around 25% of the
staff and students at the University. It
is one of less than 100 Business Schools world wide (under 20 in the UK) to
have been accredited by EQUIS through the European Foundation for Management
Development as meeting high standards of quality, internationalisation and
corporate connectedness.
LUMS is one of only
three Business Schools in the UK to have achieved both the top 6* rating
indicating excellence in research by international standards by the
Higher Education Funding Council in the December 2001 exercise and also, in the
latest assessment, to have been rated “Excellent” by the Council for the
quality of our teaching in Business and Management.
It
has an innovative and dynamic Entrepreneurship and Enterprise Unit serving
regional needs - www.lums.lancs.ac.uk/ieed -
and a major new Leadership Centre (LLC) - www.lums.lancs.ac.uk/leadership
.
Its full-time MBA (12
months) ranked in the top 100 MBA’s by the Financial Times (3rd
in the UK and 10th in Europe) and by The Economist. It attracts high-quality entry of 60-65
students from over 20 countries (around 30% from UK). Up to one-quarter study or work abroad,
sometimes as part of the supervised three-month project placement in a client
organisation.
It also offers a
part-time MBA programme (over 24 months) and a unique range of specialist
Masters programmes in Accounting and Financial Management; Advanced Marketing
Management; E-Business and Innovation; Finance; HRD and Consulting; HR and
Knowledge Management; Information Technology, Management and Organisational
Change; International Business (Economics); Management; Management and the
Environment; Money, Banking & Finance; Project Management, and Operational
Research.
The full-time and
part-time MBA programmes are accredited by the Association of MBAs (AMBA).
LUMS delivers a
full-time ESRC-recognised PhD in Management, rated in the top 10 in the world
by the Financial Times.
Its Accounting and
Finance department is the UK’s only department to have been accorded the
highest, grade 5 or 5*, research rating in every Research Assessment Exercise.
It has a fast growing
Management Development Division through which a very wide range of executive
development programmes at Certificate, Diploma and Masters levels is
co-ordinated. Organisations with which
the Division has co-operated include BAe Systems, Royal and SunAlliance,
Pilkingtons, Lufthansa, Fujitsu, Motorola, British Telecom, Red Cross, and
Astra Zeneca.
The Centre for
Management in China co-ordinates and promotes research and programme links in
China: www.lums.lancs.ac.uk/pages/Research/Centres/ChinaCentre
Partnerships
LUMS has developed an
innovative European Management double degree for undergraduates, jointly with
Reims Management School (France); ICADE (Spain); European School of Business,
Reutlingen (Germany) and UCSC, Piacenza (Italy).
It is also a
participating institution in the prestigious International Masters Program in
Practicing Management (IMPM) being taught jointly with INSEAD (France),
the Indian Institute of Management (Bangalore) and McGill (Canada),
two Japanese Universities and KDI (South Korea).
It offers study
abroad opportunities at graduate and undergraduate levels through a network of
leading university business schools in Europe, including Copenhagen Business
School; EM LYON; Ecole Supérieure de Commerce de Paris / EAP; Koblenz School of
Corporate Management; Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi (Milan);
Erasmus University (Rotterdam); Hochschule St Gallen; ICADE (Madrid)
and Universidad Comercial de Deusto
It also has student
exchange links with top North American Universities and Business Schools
including British Columbia (Vancouver), HEC and McGill
(Montreal), Colorado, Minnesota, Iowa, Emory, Michigan (Ann Arbor) and Rice
(Texas). Exchanges also with ITESM,
Mexico, the National University of Singapore and City
University and HKUST, Hong Kong and a range of top Universities in
Australia and New Zealand.