Business School

Business School 

Top-Ten Business School

• The Independent's Complete University Guide 2010 rated the Business School as 6th for Accounting & Finance, and 7th for Business Studies.
• The Times' 2010 Good University Guide saw the Business School ranked 4th for Accounting & Finance and 7th for Business Studies.
• In the 2008 National Student Survey (NSS), the Business School was ranked 4th for Management Studies, joint 5th for Accounting, and 9th for Finance, further underlining its ‘top-ten’ reputation.

International Esteem

• The Business School became EQUIS accredited in November 2008, which confers international recognition to the excellence of our activities and places us amongst only 5% of business schools in the world to have achieved this prestigious accreditation.
• The Loughborough MBA is fully accredited by the Association of MBAs (AMBA), and was re-accredited by AMBA for the maximum five years in 2008.

First-Class Teaching

• Our teaching was rated as 'Excellent' by the latest HEFCE report. We aim to provide practical, relevant and applied management education tailored to the needs of individuals and corporate clients.

World-Leading Research

• We carry out world-leading Research here at the Business School, with 60% of our research rated as 'world leading or internationally excellent' by the 2008 Research Assessment Exercise (RAE).
• The 2008 RAE placed the Business School 14th out of 90 institutions who submitted entries, based on ‘research power’ – a measure of overall ranking multiplied by the number of researchers whose work was submitted - ahead of other prestigious institutions including Cambridge, Cranfield and Durham.

Excellent links with Industry - Business Relevance and Career Focus

• The Business School has a long history of having excellent links with Industry, providing management education with a strong career focus for individuals and that is directly relevant to corporate clients.
• The Professional and Management Development Centre (PMDC) has a corporate client approach towards executive education and over 15 years of experience of providing Tailored Programmes for prestigious blue-chip companies.
• Undergraduates enjoy high employability rates due to undertaking a paid Placement Year as part of their degree.

Loughborough University

A Leading University

• The Sunday Times University of the Year 2008-9
• Ranked in the Top 20 of UK universities:
  10th in The Guardian University Guide 2010
  15th in The Sunday Times University Guide 2010
  17th in The Times Good University Guide 2010
  18th in The Complete University Guide 2010 (The Independent)
• Awarded six Queen's Anniversary Prizes for Higher and Further Education

Outstanding Student Satisfaction

• Loughborough has won The Times Higher Education ‘Best Student Experience poll for four years running (2006, 2007, 2008 & 2009) – an award voted by students across the UK. The 2007 awards saw Loughborough also win the ‘Outstanding Support for Overseas Students’ award.
•  Awarded 'Best International Students' Union of the Year 2009' by the National Union of Students (NUS)
• One of the biggest independently owned Students’ Unions, with over 100 clubs and societies and the biggest student fundraising RAG organisation in the UK.  
• Of those available for employment or study, 94% of our 2007 Loughborough graduates are in a job or undertaking further study. 77% of these are in 'higher graduate' occupations, compared with the national average of 67%
• Loughborough is one of the top 20 universities targeted by large, graduate employers (Higher Fliers 'The Graduate Market' report)
• Loughborough’s Careers Centre has been voted as one of the top ten among UK HEI

High Quality Teaching

• Assessments of teaching quality by the Quality Assurance Agency have placed Loughborough University in the top flight of UK universities.
• Loughborough University’s teacher training has been rated among top-ten in the UK, by the Good Teacher Training Guide 2008-09. The University was ranked 9th out of 73 higher education institutions in the league table, which is published by the Centre for Education and Employment Research at the University of Buckingham.
• In teaching quality assessments conducted by The Sunday Times since 1995, Loughborough has ranked 2nd in the UK after Cambridge.
• Rated 5th for 'overall satisfaction' in the 2009 National Student Survey by The Sunday Times

World-Class Research

• The 2008 Research Assessment Exercise (RAE) confirmed that ten of Loughborough’s departments have over 20% of their research judged to be world leading. Loughborough submitted over 94% of its academic staff for the RAE assessment, one of the highest returns of any university in the country.
• A UK Top 20 university based on research funding from HEFCE(the Higher Education Funding Council for England) and the only one in this shortlist without a medical school.
• The Times Higher named Loughborough as one of three rising stars among research-intensive universities
• In 2006, the University was invited to join the esteemed 1994 Group (a set of internationally recognised, research-intensive universities) in recognition of its quality research achievements as well as excellent levels of teaching and student experience.

Fostering Enterprise & Innovation

• The University has been awarded six Queen's Anniversary Prizes, an achievement only surpassed by Oxford University, which has seven. Loughborough has won awards for its collaboration with aerospace and automotive companies such as BAE Systems, Ford and Rolls Royce; for its work in developing countries; for pioneering research in optical engineering; for its world-leading role in sports research, education and development; for its outstanding work in evaluating and helping to develop social policy-related programmes; and for its vehicle, road and driver safety research.

Environmentally Friendly and Responsible Citizen

• The University purchases 50% of its electricity from green sources and 50% from low carbon generation. The University also operates two Combined Heat and Power Plants. These initiatives help to reduce our CO2 emissions by 17,600 tonnes per annum compared with conventional electricity generation.

Rankings

2010 Rankings

The Times Higher Awards – The only university to win the Times Higher Education ‘Best Student Experience’ poll four times - 2006, 2007, 2008 & 2009.

2009 Rankings

The Times – Loughborough University: 17th; Business Studies: 7th; Accounting & Finance: 4th.

The Sunday Times – Loughborough University: 15th.

The Guardian – Loughborough University: 10th; Business & Management Studies: 16th.

The Independent – Loughborough University: 18th overall; 5th for Student Satisfaction; Accounting & Finance: 6th; Business Studies: 7th.

The Times Higher Awards – For the 3rd year running (2006, 2007 & 2008), Loughborough was voted by students across the UK to win the Best Student Experience award at The Times Higher Education Awards, November 2008

2008 Rankings

The Sunday Times: Loughborough University named 'University of the Year' by the Sunday Times University Guide 2008-09.

National Student Survey: In the 2008 NSS, Loughborough placed 4th, with the Business School ranked 4th for Management Studies, joint 5th for Accounting, and 9th for Finance, further underlining its ‘top-ten’ reputation in the UK.

The Times – Loughborough University: 12th; Business Studies: 6th
Accounting & Finance: 4th.

The Guardian – Loughborough University: 10th; Business & Management Studies: 14th.

The Independent – Loughborough University: 13th overall; 1st for Sport; 3rd for Student Satisfaction; Business Studies: 8th; Accounting & Finance: 8th.

The Times Higher Awards – The University was voted by students across the UK to once again win the Best Student Experience award at The Times Higher Education Awards, November 2007 – the University also won Outstanding Support for Overseas Students.

2007 Rankings

The Times – Loughborough University: 12th; Business School: 16th; Accounting & Financial Management BSc (Hons): 10th.

The Guardian –Loughborough made it into The Guardian's Top Ten for the first time ever, coming 9th in the UK, beating Bath, Bristol, Manchester, Leicester, York, Southampton and Leeds, to name a few; for Business and Management Studies, we came 13th equal (with Imperial College, London).

National Student Survey: In the 2007 NSS, Loughborough placed 1st for 9 subject areas, the Business School came 4th in the UK.

The Times Higher Awards – The University was voted by students across the UK to win the Best Student Experience award at The Times Higher Education Awards 2006.

2006 Rankings

The Times – Loughborough University: 6th; Business School: 15th; Accounting & Financial Management BSc (Hons): 6th.

The Guardian – Loughborough University: 21st; Business School: 16th.

National Student Survey: The 2006 NSS saw Loughborough University placed 1st for 9 subject areas. The Business School came 5th in the UK.

The Times Higher Awards – Loughborough University won Best Student Experience, beating Cambridge and St Andrews universities.

2005 Rankings

The Times – Loughborough University: 10th; Business School: 18th; Accounting & Financial Management BSc (Hons): 3rd.

The Guardian –Loughborough University: 18th for Business and Management Studies.

National Student Survey: In the first-ever NSS (2005), students ranked Loughborough University 1st in the UK for overall satisfaction in Management Studies and 2nd for Business Studies.

2003-2004 Rankings

The Times & Times Higher, May 2004, placed the School 9th equal with Imperial College out of all UK business schools.

The Times, May 2004, ranked the University 2nd for Teaching Quality.

The Sunday Times, 14 September 2003, ranked the School 13th overall.

The Financial Times, 10 May 2003, noted the Lambert Report’s write-up of the collaboration between the Business School and Ford College as a very positive example of industry working with academia.

The Times, 7 May 2003, ranked the School 12th overall.
Business Britain, March 2003, honoured the School with its ‘Executive MBA Programme of the Year 2003/2004’ award.

The Guardian, 3 August 2003, awarded the School the distinction of ‘Cool School’.