Dean's message
Bradford University School of Management is one of Europe's leading, and longest-established, university-based business schools.
Commitment to international excellence
We regularly appear in the annual Financial Times league tables
- both our full-time MBA programme and executive part-time MBA programmes consistently rank in the top 100 in the world and top 30 in Europe
- in October 2009 our executive part-time programme was placed top of all business schools in the north of England, and among the top ten in the UK
We have run corporate MBA programmes for the BBC and the airline, Emirates and a graduate training programme for ASDA.
Pursuit and celebration of diversity
Bradford provides an incredibly rich context in which our students study business and management. Our learning community is highly international. Almost half our academic staff are from outside Britain, or have non-UK qualifications, and our students come from more than 30 nations. We are geographically diverse, with programmes in Europe, the Gulf region, China, India, Malaysia and Singapore.
As a full-service business school we provide courses for undergraduates through masters' and doctorates to executive education, and have a very strong research record.
Local responsibility
The city's ethnic diversity and need for economic regeneration are issues we as a School are involved in addressing, through widening access to our courses and outreach to the local business community.
The "Bradford experience"
The "Bradford experience" offers a combination of business-orientated skills with excellent and rigorous teaching of evidence-based management research, taught to international students by international faculty.
We are located in a college-like parkland setting, five kilometres from the city centre. We have been offering this Bradford experience for more than 40 years to both individuals and corporate clients around the world, including the BBC, Coca Cola, Unilever, Ford Motor Co., the airline Emirates and Singapore Telecom. Bradford is a wonderful location for staff and students to work, study and live, with the cultural riches and vibrancy of the city close to the glorious beauty of the Yorkshire Dales.
Professor Arthur Francis, Dean