September 2002
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Doctoral Students drawn to Bradford

The School of Management is the sixteenth most popular destination in the world for doctoral students in business and management, the Financial Times has revealed.

And its 2002 ranking of the world's top 30 schools, measured by the total number of doctoral graduates for the past three years, places Bradford sixth in Britain - ahead of Manchester, London and City University business schools.

Professor Arthur Francis, Dean of the School of Management, said: "Doctoral programmes are a measure of a School's scholarship and this result does much to confirm our position as one of the leading centres of research in management in the world."

Professor Hogarth-Scott, who chairs Bradford's doctoral programmes, said: "We give research a high priority both for its own sake, and to ensure that our teaching is based on the best possible understanding of business and management. Our vibrant and large PhD and DBA programmes, undertaken in a lively research community, help to ensure the necessary continuous flow of new ideas.

"A major contributory factor to our success is our rigorous research-methods training programme, which requires all PhDs and DBAs successfully to complete our Diploma in Research Methods.

"There is strong competition for PhD and DBA graduates in the academic and business worlds. We expect our buoyant recruitment and resultant stream of quality doctoral postgraduates to continue long into the future."

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