Manchester Business School
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| Type | Business School |
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| Established | 1918 as Department of Industrial Administration (1965 as Manchester Business School. 2004 for the merged MBS) |
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Parent institution
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University of Manchester |
| Director | Professor Fiona Devine |
| Address | Booth Street West, Manchester, M15 6PB, England, United Kingdom |
| Campus | Urban |
| Website | http://www.mbs.ac.uk |
Coordinates: 53°28′03.72″N 2°14′13.20″W / 53.4677000°N 2.2370000°W
Alliance Manchester Business School (Alliance MBS) is the business school of the University of Manchester in Manchester, England.
According to the Financial Times 2011 Global MBA Rankings, its M.B.A programme is ranked 29th in the world and its Post Graduate and Doctoral program (PhD and DBA) is ranked 1st in the world. MBS "Marketing" has been ranked 9th in the world and its "International Business" has been ranked 10th in the world as per the Financial Times 2012 ranking.
It includes departments from both the former Victoria University of Manchester's Faculty of Business Administration, and from UMIST.
The "new" Manchester Business School was formed in 2004 as a result of the merger of UMIST's Manchester School of Management, the Institute of Innovation Research (IoIR), the Victoria University of Manchester's School of Accounting and Finance, and the "old" Manchester Business School. Prior to merger the constituent parts of new MBS formed, from 1994, the "Manchester Federal School of Business and Management" and occupied nearby buildings either side of Oxford Road
The foundation of the School dates back to 1918 when the Manchester Municipal College of Technology (as UMIST was then called) pioneered academic training in management, with the formation of a Department of Industrial Administration funded by an endowment from asbestos magnate Sir Samuel Turner. The London School of Economics and Manchester Municipal College of Technology were the first higher education institutions in the UK to follow the US trend of offering postgraduate management programmes in the 1930s. The Department of Industrial Administration was heavily influenced by management science pioneer Charles Garonne Renold. The Robbins Report in the 1960s recommended that two national centres for postgraduate business education be created, and the Franks Report subsequently suggested that one would be in London centred on the University of London, and one in Manchester centred on the (Victoria) University and UMIST. As a result, Manchester was one of the first two business schools in the UK offering MBA degrees.
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