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Cranfield School of Management
TypeBusiness School
Established1967 (1967)[1]
DeanProfessor David Oglethorpe
Location
Cranfield
,
United Kingdom
CampusCranfield
Websitewww.cranfield.ac.uk/som

Cranfield School of Management, established in 1967,[2] is a business school that is part of Cranfield University in Bedfordshire, United Kingdom. Cranfield School of Management is triple accredited by the Association of MBAs (AMBA), EQUIS and AACSB.[3]

Campus

The Cranfield University campus, which includes the School of Management, is located just outside the village of Cranfield in the Bedfordshire countryside, near Milton Keynes.

The School's Management Information Resource Centre offers access to electronic resources and is equipped with a Bloomberg Suite,[4] a series of terminals offering access to live financial services news and data on industries, markets, economic indicators, equities, bonds and derivatives. The school also has a purpose-built residential management training centre.

History

  • 1937: an RAF airbase was set up near Cranfield village in Bedfordshire in 1937 in the build-up to the Second World War.
  • 1946: the airbase became the site of a College of Aeronautics to provide education and training for aeronautical engineers. Aspects of management were a feature of Cranfield programmes from the late 1940s.
  • 1953: the Work Study School, which evolved to become Cranfield School of Management, opened.
  • 1964: the first Cranfield MBA programme was run.[5]
  • 1967: Cranfield School of Management was founded.
  • 1969: Cranfield was awarded its Royal Charter giving it university status and the power to confer degrees under the new name of Cranfield Institute of Technology.
  • 1993: Cranfield Institute of Technology changed its name to Cranfield University.
  • 2001: Cranfield SoM gained Triple accreditation, one of the first few to do so in the UK.

Rankings

The Cranfield School of Management is highly ranked globally as well as nationally.

As an exclusively postgraduate university, the University is excluded from the Times Higher Education World Rankings, The Times World Rankings, The Complete University Guide and The Guardian, which focus on helping prospective undergraduate students to compare universities.

Full-time MBA ranking

  • The Financial Times 2019[6] ranking of full-time MBA programmes, ranked 9th in the UK, 18th in Europe and 76th in the world.
  • The Bloomberg Businessweek[7] European Best B-Schools ranking of full-time MBA programmes 2019-20, ranked 16th in Europe overall, 2nd in Europe for the learning experience, 7th in Europe for networking and 9th in Europe for entrepreneurship.
  • The Economist Which MBA?[8] Rankings 2019, ranked 5th in the UK, 14th in Europe and 59th in the world.
  • The QS Global[9] MBA Rankings 2021 ranked 9th in the UK, 29th in Europe and 79th in the world.

Executive MBA ranking

  • The Financial Times[10] ranking of Executive MBA programmes 2020, ranked 8th in the UK, 88th in the world, 3rd in the UK for Percentage of Women Students, 13th in the EU for Salary Increase Percentage and 1st in the UK for Satisfaction Rate.

Management MSc ranking

  • The Economist Which MBA?[11] Masters in Management (MiM) 2019 ranking, ranked 3rd in the UK and 30th in the world.
  • The Financial Times: Masters In Management[12] 2020, ranked 9th in the UK and 78th in the world.
  • The QS World[13] University Rankings: Masters in Management ranking 2021, ranked 6th in the UK, 26th in the world and 14th in the world for employability.

Finance and Management MSc ranking

  • The Financial Times Masters[14] in Finance Pre-experience ranking 2018, ranked 6th in the UK and 32nd in the world.
  • The QS World[15] University Rankings: Masters in Finance Rankings 2021, ranked 9th in the UK and 40th in the world.

Logistics and Supply Chain Management MSc ranking

  • The QS World[16] University Rankings: Masters in Supply Chain Management Rankings 2021, ranked 2nd in the UK and 11th in the world.

Strategic Marketing MSc ranking

  • The QS World[17] University Rankings: Masters in Marketing Rankings 2021, ranked 5th in the UK and 16th in the world.

Executive Education ranking

  • The Executive Education 2020 FT Rankings[18], ranked top 10 in the UK, top 30 in Europe and top 40 in the world.

Cranfield School of Management has Memoranda of Understanding with:

The School of Management has run programmes with and hosted exchange students from a number of business schools around the world including ESADE, Spain, EM Lyon, France, University of Cape Town, South Africa and University of Ghana, Accra, Ghana.

Notable alumni

The alumni body of Cranfield School of Management is an international network of professional managers from business, the professions, the public and not-for-profit sectors. Currently, the network includes more than 18,000 professional managers in over 120 countries.[19]

Cranfield University are in the top 1% of institutions in the world for alumni who hold CEO positions at the world's top companies according to the Centre for World University Rankings, 2017.[20]

References

  1. ↑ "Cranfield School of Management". Independent. 8 August 2013.
  2. ↑ "Cranfield School of Management". The Economist. 2017.
  3. ↑ "School of Management retains prestigious triple accreditation". Cranfield School of Management. 2020. Retrieved 18 January 2021.
  4. ↑ "Facilities". www.cranfield.ac.uk. Retrieved 18 January 2021.
  5. ↑ "Cranfield – Full Profile". Find-MBA. 2017.
  6. ↑ "Business school rankings from the Financial Times - FT.com". rankings.ft.com. Archived from the original on 12 September 2019. Retrieved 18 January 2021.
  7. ↑ "These Are Europe's Best Business Schools". Bloomberg.com. Retrieved 18 January 2021.
  8. ↑ "2019 MBA & Business School Rankings | Which MBA?". The Economist. Retrieved 18 January 2021.
  9. ↑ "World University Rankings - Full Time MBA: Global 2021". Top Universities. 18 September 2020. Retrieved 18 January 2021.
  10. ↑ "Business school rankings from the Financial Times - FT.com". rankings.ft.com. Archived from the original on 28 November 2020. Retrieved 18 January 2021.
  11. ↑ "Masters in Management 2019 Ranking". The Economist. Retrieved 18 January 2021.
  12. ↑ "Business school rankings from the Financial Times - FT.com". rankings.ft.com. Archived from the original on 12 October 2020. Retrieved 18 January 2021.
  13. ↑ "World University Rankings - Masters In Management 2021". Top Universities. 18 September 2020. Retrieved 18 January 2021.
  14. ↑ "Business school rankings from the Financial Times - FT.com". rankings.ft.com. Archived from the original on 11 December 2018. Retrieved 18 January 2021.
  15. ↑ "World University Rankings - Masters In Finance 2021". Top Universities. 18 September 2020. Retrieved 18 January 2021.
  16. ↑ "World University Rankings - Masters in Supply Chain Management 2021". Top Universities. 18 September 2020. Retrieved 18 January 2021.
  17. ↑ "World University Rankings - Masters In Marketing 2021". Top Universities. 18 September 2020. Retrieved 18 January 2021.
  18. ↑ "Business school rankings from the Financial Times - FT.com". rankings.ft.com. Archived from the original on 19 October 2021. Retrieved 18 January 2021.
  19. ↑ "Notable Alumni". www.cranfield.ac.uk. Retrieved 18 January 2021.
  20. ↑ "Cranfield facts and figures". cranfield.ac.uk. Retrieved 31 July 2018.
  21. ↑ "Karan Bilimoria – Founder of Cobra Beer". London Speaker Bureau.
  22. ↑ "John McFarlane OBE, awarded honorary degree from Cranfield". Cranfield School of Management.
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