Coventry Business School is a business school located in Coventry, United Kingdom. It is a department of Coventry University and its Faculty of Business and Law. The School offers a number of undergraduate and postgraduate degrees in subjects such as economics, marketing, event management and applied management.
The School is an accredited study centre of The Chartered Institute of Marketing and is a member of the Association of Business Schools.
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History
Coventry University has taught business for over 40 years, starting in the early 1960s. A Faculty of Business was formed in 1987 and the Business School was established in 1990.
The School's home, the historic William Morris building, dates from 1916. Car entrepreneur William Morris bought it in 1923 to produce car engines. Acquired by the university in 1992, the building has been extensively renovated and now includes IT labs, lecture theatres, specialist post-graduate teaching facilities and also houses the biggest academic trading floor in Europe.
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Structure
Coventry Business School incorporates the following schools:
- School of Economics, Finance and Accounting
- School of Strategy and Leadership
- School of Marketing and Management
Academic profile
The School offers a wider range of undergraduate, postgraduate and research programmes these include MBAs offered in a variety of different subjects.
The School has also been accepted as a member of EFMD (European Foundation of Management Development ), one of the prestigious association in the field of management and continue to be an active participant of Association of UK Business Schools. with The School has partnerships with many foreign universities, including Oulu (Finland); Beijing and Guangzhou in China; ESC Clermont, ESC Montpellier and ESC St Etienne in France; and Kraków University of Economics in Poland.
Rankings
The School is ranked as "Excellent" in the 2015 Eduniversal ranking of business schools with 3 palmes, a rating which indicates an institution's international academic reputation. Coventry Business School is ranked 20th best by the Guardian university guide 2015 and among top 33 best Business Schools by 2012 Sunday Times Good University Guide. Apart from its Business School, Coventry University is share its rank among top 4% universities of the world published by QS World University Rankings 2013/14.
Accreditation
The Coventry Business school has also been accredited by the Chartered Institute of Marketing and has received EPAS accreditation for its Business Management programmes. The school is also a member of the Association for Events Management Education (AEME) and which helps to provide the opportunity to undertake overseas field trips.
Research
The School is home to the Centre for Business in Society (CIBS), directed by Professor Lyndon Simking. CIBS aims to deliver high quality applied research, training, consultancy and networking outputs across the cores themes of sustainability, ethical consumption and economic development.The centre hosted the 2009 Play the Game International Conference 'Visions for Sports in time of crisis'. In 2010/11 CIBS launched the journal Sport, Business and Management: an International Journal published by Emerald.
Notable alumni
Notable alumni of the School include: Gary Kibble, retail trading director, Shop Direct Group; and Gideon Coe, the radio DJ.
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