Cranfield School of Management

Coordinates: 52°04′26″N 0°37′44″W / 52.074°N 0.629°W / 52.074; -0.629

Cranfield School of Management
Type Business School
Established 1967
Director Maury Peiperl
Location Cranfield, United Kingdom
Campus Cranfield
Website http://www.som.cranfield.ac.uk

Cranfield School of Management is the business school of Cranfield University, the UK's only wholly postgraduate university specialising in science, technology, engineering and management.

The school is ranked among the top 20 European business schools by the Financial Times and is triple accredited by the Association of MBAs (AMBA), EQUIS and AACSB.

Campus

The Cranfield University campus, which includes the School of Management, is located just outside the village of Cranfield in the Bedfordshire countryside.

The School’s Management Information Resource Centre offers access to electronic resources and is equipped with a “Bloomberg Suite”, a series of terminals offering access to live financial services news and data on industries, markets, economic indicators, equities, bonds and derivatives. The school also has a purpose-built residential management training centre.

History

Programmes

The Cranfield MBA is a full-time one-year programme beginning in September each year. The class comprises around 100 students drawn from 30 to 40 countries.[1]

The Cranfield Executive MBA is a two-year part-time programme that starts in January each year. The programme is offered in a weekend format and has a focus on real-world learning and leadership development.[2]

Masters programmes

The School offers the following full-time one-year masters programmes:

Executive Masters programmes

The School offers the following part-time two-year masters programmes for experienced executives:

Defence programmes

Along with other schools of Cranfield University, the School of Management provides programmes for the Defence Academy, UK, which is responsible for training for members of the UK Armed Forces and Ministry of Defence Civil Servants. Relevant programmes include:

Doctoral programmes

The School offers a PhD programme on both a full-time and part-time basis and an International Executive Doctorate (DBA) on a part-time basis.[13]

General Management Programmes

Cranfield’s Centre for General Management focuses on developing the conceptual framework and practical understanding essential to work with a general management perspective. Its portfolio of executive programmes is designed to develop personal leadership effectiveness and improve long term business results, enabling managers to make the personal transitions required at key points in their careers.

Rankings

International links

Cranfield School of Management has Memoranda of Understanding with:

The School of Management has run programmes with and hosted exchange students from a number of business schools around the world including ESADE, Spain, EM Lyon, France, University of Cape Town, South Africa and University of Ghana, Accra, Ghana

Notable alumni

The alumni body of Cranfield School of Management is an international network of professional managers from business, the professions, the public and not-for-profit sectors. Currently, the network includes more than 18,000 professional managers in over 120 countries.[14]

• Akinwunmi Ambode - Governor Lagos State, Nigeria

References

  1. ↑ "MBA Programmes". cranfieldmba.info. Retrieved 2 August 2015.
  2. 1 2 "MBA Programmes". cranfieldemba.info. Retrieved 2 August 2015.
  3. ↑ "Cranfield Masters in Finance and Management". cranfieldmsc.biz. Retrieved 2 August 2015.
  4. ↑ "The Cranfield MSc in Investment Management". cranfieldmsc.biz. Retrieved 2 August 2015.
  5. ↑ "The Cranfield full-time MSc in Logistics and Supply Chain Management". cranfieldmsc.biz. Retrieved 2 August 2015.
  6. ↑ "Cranfield Masters in Management". cranfieldmsc.biz. Retrieved 2 August 2015.
  7. ↑ "The Full-time MSc in Management and Corporate Sustainability". cranfieldmsc.biz. Retrieved 2 August 2015.
  8. ↑ "Cranfield Masters in Management and Entrepreneurship". cranfieldmsc.biz. Retrieved 2 August 2015.
  9. ↑ "Cranfield Masters in Retail Management". cranfieldmsc.biz. Retrieved 2 August 2015.
  10. ↑ "The Cranfield MSc - Strategic Marketing - Full-time". cranfieldmsc.biz. Retrieved 2 August 2015.
  11. ↑ "The Cranfield MSc - Executive (Modular) Logistics and Supply Chain Management - Part-time". cranfieldmsc.biz. Retrieved 2 August 2015.
  12. ↑ http://www.cranfieldmsc.biz/ppm
  13. ↑ "Welcome to Cranfield School of Managements Doctoral Programmes". cranfield.ac.uk. Retrieved 2 August 2015.
  14. ↑ Alumni stats http://www.som.cranfield.ac.uk/som/p14171/About-Cranfield/Alumni
  15. ↑ "Karan Bilimoria - Founder of Cobra Beer". London Speaker Bureau.
  16. ↑ "London's Most Influential People 2008". London Evening Standard.
  17. ↑ "John McFarlane OBE, awarded honorary degree from Cranfield". Cranfield School of Management.

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