About us
Welcome to Loughborough University Business School
From its inception as the famous Loughborough Colleges in the early 1900s to its receiving the Royal Charter to become the first University of Technology in the country in 1966 through to its excellent reputation today, Loughborough has cultivated and maintained a strong and well-respected record of leading edge research and education. Based in the Midlands, Loughborough is close to Nottingham, Derby, Leicester, is only 45 minutes from Birmingham and only 90 minutes from both London and Manchester.
Known internationally for engineering, business studies and sports and exercise science, Loughborough University has strong links with industry, commerce and the professions. With six Queen's Anniversary Prizes for Higher and Further Education - the most prestigious award made to educational institutions in the UK - Loughborough's commitment to success in all spheres is recognised at the highest levels.
Our programmes
The Business School enrolled its first students in 1971, with approximately 1,500 students on its wide range of programmes today. These include our six specialist Undergraduate degrees (one taught solely in Singapore), The Loughborough MBA (AMBA-accredited), five Masters courses in various management disciplines and our ESRC-recognised Postgraduate Research Programmes.
In addition, about 1,000 managers, directors and executives of leading firms across the UK attend our management development courses each year run by the Professional and Management Development Centre.
The Professional and Management Development Centre offers a diverse range of programmes that encompass core management disciplines (including a programme for company directors), as well as specialisms such as healthcare, security risk management and automotive dealership management.
All of our programmes benefit from Loughborough’s close links with industry and the professions – indeed the Henry Ford College, with which the Business School has close links, is located on the University campus.
Our people
The Business School now boasts approximately 72 academic staff, including 22 Professors and 15 research-only staff organised into six core teaching and five research groups. The Teaching Groups are: Accounting and Financial Management; Banking and Economics; Human Resource Management and Organisational Behaviour; International Business and Strategy; Management Science, Information Systems and Operations Management; Retail and Marketing. The Research Groups are: Accounting, Finance and Banking; Human Resource Management and Organisational Behaviour; International Business and Strategy; Management Science and Information Systems; Marketing and Retailing.
Loughborough respects diversity, as is evidenced by both staff and students who display considerable diversity themselves in terms of nationality, gender, teaching philosophies and research interests. This promotes a lively and collegial environment with unwavering commitment to good research and teaching, as evidenced by both the University’s and the Business School’s rankings in the major League Tables each year.
What sets us apart
What differentiates Loughborough from other top business schools? There are key factors in each of our programmes. For example, the Undergraduate Placement Year plays an important role in the learning process and ensures that our graduates are extremely employable. Our MBA programme is highly flexible, allowing participants to combine a variety of different study modes to fit in with a busy work schedule. Our taught Masters programmes provide an excellent fast-track entry into business for graduates whose initial specialism was in other subject areas. And the Doctoral programmes provide a wide-ranging taught component on research methods in addition to supervision on the chosen research topic.
The Loughborough Experience
We cultivate a supportive and rich learning environment at Loughborough which will prepare you for key positions in organisations throughout the world. At the heart of our curriculum is the strong belief that experiential learning, teaching and research of the highest standards combine with student diligence to create a learning environment that fosters and supports a rich, challenging and exciting academic community.
At Loughborough we emphasise intellectual rigour, business relevance and creative thinking.
We are all passionate about our individual and collective research, teaching, supervision of postgraduate students and services provided to business clients. We are deeply committed to a variety of research programmes of practical and theoretical importance, and to the diverse needs of our students and clients.
We pride ourselves on preparing men and women for excellent academic and industry careers with the understanding that a positive impact on the economic, social and political factors that shape the global environment is vital. We aim to produce leaders who make a difference to their organisations as well as to their communities.
