Strathclyde Business School

Strathclyde Business School
TypePublic business school
Established
  • 1947–1971 Department of Industrial Administration
  • 1950–1964 Glasgow School of Management
  • 1964–1982 School of Business and Administration
  • 1973 Strathclyde Business School (faculty 1982)
Parent institution
Strathclyde University
Accreditation
DeanDavid Hillier
Academic staff
ca 200
Students> 4,500
Location
Glasgow
,
Scotland
,
UK

55°51′40″N 4°14′42″W / 55.861°N 4.245°W / 55.861; -4.245
CampusUrban
ColoursRed and White    
Websitewww.strath.ac.uk/business/

The Strathclyde Business School (SBS) is one of four faculties forming the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow, Scotland. Founded in 1973, but tracing its history back to the establishment of the Royal College of Science and Technology's Department of Industrial Administration in 1947, the school is located on Cathedral Street within the John Anderson campus of the university. It offers courses for business education and management development.

Strathclyde Business School has around 200 academic staff and more than 4500 students (1960 undergraduate and 2615 postgraduate). The faculty contains seven departments and six specialist centres. The school has international centres in Bahrain ,Greece, Malaysia, Oman, and UAE.

History

Management education started at Glasgow's Royal College of Science and Technology in 1947 with the establishment of the Department of Industrial Administration.[1] The Glasgow School of Management was established in 1950 as a joint venture between this department and the Glasgow and West of Scotland Commercial College (which became the Scottish College of Commerce in 1955).[2]

In 1964, the College of Commerce and the Royal College merged to form the University of Strathclyde. There had been hope that the government would establish a business school at the new university but, following the Franks Report in 1963, government resources were concentrated on funding business schools in Manchester and London instead.[3][4] From 1964, the university also had a School of Business and Administration.[5] Despite the lack of a business school, Strathclyde was a flourishing centre of business education with 370 undergraduates, 86 postgraduates, over 400 part-time diploma students, and short post-experience courses being given to over 500 people a year at the Chesters residential centre. It established an MBA course in 1966 within the Department of Industrial Administration.[6]

In 1970, the government was persuaded to fund a business school in Scotland but rather than being established at a single university the Scottish Business School was established as a partnership between the universities of Strathclyde, Glasgow and Edinburgh in 1971; it would eventually take in Stirling and Heriot-Watt before being transformed into the Confederation of Scottish Business Schools in 1987 and then the Association for Management Education and Training in Scotland in 1989.[4][7][8] Also in 1971, Strathclyde's Department of Industrial Administration became part of the Department of Administration,[1] and in 1973 the Strathclyde Business School was established.[4][9] Business education continued to be split across multiple departments, with the business school offering post-experience postgraduate courses, the School of Business and Administration offering undergraduate and postgraduate courses, and other postgraduate management courses being offered by the Department of Production Management and Manufactory Technology.[10] In 1982, a reorganisation of the university saw the School of Business and Administration closed and the business school elevated to a faculty containing multiple departments.[9]

Organisation and administration

Academic departments

Strathclyde Business School main building

There are seven academic departments within the business school:[11]

  • Accounting and Finance
  • Economics
  • Hunter Centre for Entrepreneurship
  • Management Science
  • Marketing
  • MBA and General Management
  • Work, Employment and Organisation

The business school also has six specialist centres as mentioned below:[11]

  • Fraser of Allander Institute (regional economic research)
  • Centre for Financial Regulation and Innovation
  • Scottish Centre for Employment Research
  • Stephen Young Institute (international business and innovation research)
  • Informed Decision Analytics (IDeA)
  • Strathclyde Executive Education and Development

International centres

The school launched its first international centre in Singapore in 1988, followed in short order by Hong Kong and Malaysia.[12] As of 2023, the Strathclyde MBA is offered at five international centres:[13]

Academic profile

Accreditation

According to the school, Strathclyde was the first triple accredited business school in Scotland,[14] holding accreditation from: AMBA,[15] AACSB[16] and EQUIS.[17]

It's various departments also hold a number of discipline-specific accreditations:

Research

In the 2021 Research Excellence Framework, Strathclyde Business School was rated 24th in the UK for its research quality (GPA) and 16th for research power, with 42% of its research graded 4* (world leading) and 42% graded 3* (internationally excellent).[18]

Reputation and rankings

In November 2016, Strathclyde Business School was awarded THE Business School of the Year in the Times Higher Education Awards.[19]

In the Times Higher Education 2013 Awards, the university won the "UK Entrepreneurial University of the Year 2013" award, making Strathclyde the first Scottish university to hold the title.[20]

Notable alumni

References

  1. ^ a b "University of Strathclyde {{|}} Department of Industrial Administration". University of Strathclyde Archives and Special Collections. Retrieved 13 September 2023.
  2. ^ "Glasgow School of Management". University of Strathclyde Archives and Special Collections. Retrieved 13 September 2023.
  3. ^ "Merging of Science and Commerce". The Glasgow Herald. 1 May 1964.
  4. ^ a b c Scottish Education Department/Donald M. McCallum (1987). Business and Management Education in Scotland: Report of the Scottish Tertiary Education Advisory Council on Its Review of the Scottish Business School. H.M. Stationery Office. pp. 14, 16.
  5. ^ "University of Strathclyde | School of Business and Administration". University of Strathclyde Archives and Special Collections. Retrieved 13 September 2023.
  6. ^ "The Scottish Educational Journal". 49. Educational Institute of Scotland. 1966: 467. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  7. ^ Ewan Sutherland (1993). Silicon Glenn: A Technological Brigadoon?: an Analysis of the Electronics and IT Industries in Scotland. Interdiszipliäres Institut für Raumordnung, Stadt- und Regionalentwicklung, Wirtschaftsuniversität. p. 7.
  8. ^ "Scottish business education finally gets itself together". The Herald. 25 October 1989.
  9. ^ a b "University of Strathclyde | Strathclyde Business School". University of Strathclyde Archives and Special Collections. Retrieved 13 September 2023.
  10. ^ Training for Public Enterprise Management: A Directory of Commonwealth Resources. Commonwealth Secretariat. 1981. p. 162.
  11. ^ a b "Departments & specialist centres". Strathclyde Business School. Retrieved 16 September 2023.
  12. ^ "Strathclyde planning a possible global strategy in learning". The Glasgow Herald. 17 July 1989. Retrieved 9 October 2016.
  13. ^ "International Centres". Strathclyde Business School. Retrieved 16 September 2023.
  14. ^ a b c d "Accreditations & rankings". Strathclyde Business School. Retrieved 16 September 2023.
  15. ^ "Search BSchool MBA programmes". mbaworld. 1 January 1970. Archived from the original on 18 January 2012. Retrieved 16 March 2012.
  16. ^ "member profile: Strathclyde, University of, Strathclyde Business School". www.aacsb.edu. Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB International). Retrieved 5 October 2016.
  17. ^ "EQUIS Accredited Schools". Efmd.org. Retrieved 16 March 2012.
  18. ^ "REF 2021: Business and management studies". Times Higher Education. 12 May 2022.
  19. ^ WINNERS :: THE Awards 2016
  20. ^ 2013 Winners :: THE Awards 2013
  21. ^ "Rajiv Mehrishi - Executive Record Sheet". Department of Personnel and Training, Government of India. Retrieved 14 August 2017.
  22. ^ "Brief Profile - Rajiv Mehrishi, Home Secretary" (PDF). Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of India. Archived from the original (PDF) on 6 June 2017. Retrieved 14 August 2017.