Imperial College Business School

Imperial College Business School is a business school located in London, United Kingdom and a constituent faculty of Imperial College London. It is based at Imperial's main South Kensington campus in West London. Imperial College Business School is accredited by EQUIS and has programmes and courses accredited by AACSB and AMBA. It is one of the leading business schools in Europe. Undergraduate The school itself does not offer undergraduate degrees, however the majority of undergraduate students in other faculties at Imperial College London will have the option of studying management modules towards their degrees. Some departments' students can combine management with their science courses to attain a joint-honours degree. Medical students can study an intercalated BSc in Medical Sciences with Management while in their fourth year before returning to clinical training. Medical students from other universities can join this course. Research Imperial College Business School is recognised as a leading research institution in business and management. In the 2008 Research Assessment Exercise Imperial College Business School was ranked second in the United Kingdom.[11] The School has the following four research groups:

Organisation and Management Group - examines many of the core management disciplines such as strategy, organisational behaviour, operations research and marketing. The Group's work is complemented by the three specialist groups. Finance and Accounting Group - active in quantitative finance research. The group has particular interests in derivative pricing, capital markets research, credit risk modelling, risk management and financial econometrics. Health Management Group - complements Imperials medical research and teaching and draws on many disciplines to provide theoretical and empirical analysis of healthcare systems and public health programmes. Innovation and Entrepreneurship Group - focuses on how innovation occurs, how new products and processes are developed and how new ideas transfer from the lab to the organisation and how new products are adopted by consumers.

Rankings Imperial College Business School is ranked 3rd in the UK for Business Studies by the Complete University Guide Subject Tables 2012.[12] The Financial Times has ranked the MSc Management Program 1st in the United Kingdom and 13th in the world in 2011.[13] The Financial Times 2011 Global MBA Rankings has ranked the Imperial MBA programme 4th in Entrepreneurship. In the 2010 QS Global 200 Business Schools Report[14] the business school is ranked 14th and its MBA in finance is ranked 4th in Europe. Imperial College Business School is ranked 14th in Europe by Bloomberg Businessweek.[15]
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