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Motto | Altiora Petamus "Let us seek higher things" |
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Type | public university business school |
Established | 2006 (1987 origins of departments) |
Dean | Professor David Spicer |
Students | over 3,000 |
Location | Salford, Greater Manchester, England, UK |
Campus | Urban, Parkland |
Colours |
Navy, Black, White and Gold |
Affiliations | University of Salford |
Website | http://www.salford.ac.uk/business-school |
Navy, Black, White and Gold
Coordinates: 53°29′04″N 2°16′17″W / 53.48444°N 2.27139°W
Salford Business School is located 3 km west of Manchester city centre in the Maxwell Building on the Peel Park Campus of the University of Salford. As a business school it offers business management courses, business services and business focused research. It is one of the university's seven constituent schools.
The range of business and management studies degrees includes pre-masters courses, undergraduate programmes, postgraduate taught and research degrees up to PhD level. It places equal emphasis on teaching, research and academic enterprise measured by National Student Survey and Research Assessment Exercise results.
Teaching and research expertise falls within the areas of:
The Students' Union clubs and societies include a Students in Free Enterprise (SIFE) group which works closely with the school delivering events including business games for local schools and colleges.
The school was formed in 2006 by the merger of four academic units, the School of Management, School of Accounting, Economics and Management Science, School of Leisure, Hospitality and Food Management and the Information Systems Institute. The University of Salford received its Royal Charter in 1967 but has a long tradition of higher education dating back to 1896 when two Workings Men's Institutes merged to form the Salford Technical Institute.