The University of Exeter Business School is a business school founded by the

University of Exeter The University of Exeter is a research university in the West Country of England, with its main campus in Exeter, Devon. Its predecessor institutions, St Luke's College, Exeter School of Science, Exeter School of Art, and the Camborne School of ...

in 2008, it is located on the university's

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within the city of

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. The School offers undergraduate BSc and postgraduate degrees in business, economics, marketing, finance, accounting and management programmes. The school offers the Exeter

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which focuses on

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, a dedicated

Master in Management The Master of Management (MM, MiM, MMgt) is a master's degree comprising one or two years graduate level coursework in business management. In terms of content, it is similar to the Master of Business Administration (MBA) degree as it contain ...

programme and specialised MSc degrees, as well as

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and

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research programmes. The school possess the Triple Crown Accreditation from

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and

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History

The university offered its first

in 1988 with the formation of the Centre for Management Studies. In 1998 the University of Exeter Business School was launched with the Departments of Management, Economics, Accounting and Finance merged. At the time of its formation, the Business School employed 38 full-time academics, by 2013 this number had risen to over 200.

College status

The University of Exeter Business School has an international student body made up of 93 different nationalities, faculty from 29 countries, 50 partner institutions in 24 countries worldwide and 20,195 alumni, almost half of whom are based internationally across 155 countries. The table below demonstrates the number of professional services staff and students in the Business School from the 2015/16 academic year across its programmes.

Reputation

The University of Exeter Business School is a UK-based international Business School which is part of a Russell Group university ranked within the Global Top 100 according to ''The Times Higher Education World Rankings 2015''. It held 7th-place position during both 2015 and 2016 respectively according to ''The Times and The Sunday Times University Guide 2016''.

Partnerships

The business school maintains international partnerships with other leading business schools in Europe and globally. As well as students visiting the school, Exeter students are able to visit schools within the network for a full academic year. The Business School's 60 partner institutions include: *

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Bocconi University Bocconi University or Università Bocconi (formally known in Italian language, Italian as ''Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi'' – Luigi Bocconi Commercial University) is a private university in Milan, Italy. The university is consistently ...

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LUISS Business School Luiss Business School is a leading Italian business school, specialized in business and management studies. Founded in 1986, Luiss Business School is the business school of the Libera Università Internazionale degli Studi Sociali Guido Carli, ( ...

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Copenhagen Business School Copenhagen Business School (Danish'': Handelshøjskolen i København'') often abbreviated and referred to as CBS (also in Danish), is a public university situated in Copenhagen, Denmark and is considered one of the most prestigious business scho ...

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EDHEC The École des Hautes Études Commerciales du Nord, commonly known as EDHEC Business School or simply EDHEC, is a French business school and ''grande école'' founded in 1906. It has campuses in Lille, Nice, and Paris, as well as in the United Ki ...

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Hong Kong University of Science & Technology The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) is a public research university in Sai Kung District, New Territories, Hong Kong. Founded in 1991, it was the territory's third institution to be granted university status, and the firs ...

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Fudan University Fudan University (FDU) is a public university, national public university in Yangpu, Shanghai, Yangpu, Shanghai, China. It is affiliated with the Ministry of Education (China), Ministry of Education and is co-funded with the Shanghai Municipal ...

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Mannheim Business School Mannheim Business School (MBS) is the umbrella organization for management education at the University of Mannheim. The school was established in 2005 following the faculty of business of the University of Mannheim decision to bundle their MBA pr ...

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WHU – Otto Beisheim School of Management WHU – Otto Beisheim School of Management is a private German business school with campuses in Vallendar and Düsseldorf, Germany. As of September 2024, there are 2,007 students (including doctoral students) at WHU, about 251 employees and 5 ...

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Notable alumni

Roselan Daud Mohamad Roselan bin Mohamad Daud (born 25 August 1961) is a politician and civil servant from Brunei who served as the country's Deputy Minister at the Prime Minister's Office (PMO) from 2015 to 2018. Early life and education Mohd Roselan b ...

– former Deputy Minister at the Prime Minister's Office *

Abdullah Gül Abdullah Gül (; ; born 29 October 1950) is a Turkish politician who served as the 11th president of Turkey from 2007 to 2014. He previously served for four months as Prime Minister of Turkey, Prime Minister from 2002 to 2003, and concurrently s ...

– former

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(2007–2014) * Major General Matthew Holmes –

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Sajid Javid Sir Sajid Javid (; born 5 December 1969) is a British former politician who served as Secretary of State for Health and Social Care from June 2021 to July 2022, having previously served as Home Secretary from 2018 to 2019 and Chancellor of the ...

MP – former

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* Col Mark Lancaster (MBA) –

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* Bob Quick QPM (MBA) – Former Assistant Commissioner * Sam Skinner (rugby union) – Exeter Chiefs and Scotland rugby player *

Jack Maunder Jack Andrew L. Maunder (born 5 April 1997) is an English rugby union Scrum-half. He currently plays for SU Agen Lot-et-Garonne in French Pro D2 league. Since making his professional debut for his home-town club of Exeter Chiefs, in the English ...

– Exeter Chiefs rugby player * Henry Staunton – Media mogul *

Neil Woodford Neil Russell Woodford CBE (born 2 March 1960) is a British former fund manager and the founding partner of Woodford Investment Management and the author of Woodford Views. Early life Woodford was brought up in Berkshire and attended Maidenhead ...

– Founder and CEO, Woodford Investment Management

Faculty

Nicholas Crafts Nicholas Francis Robert Crafts Order of the British Empire, CBE (9 March 1949 – 6 October 2023) was a British economist who was known for his contributions to economic history, in particular on the Industrial Revolution. He was Professor of ...

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– Lecturer in Economic History (1971–1972) *

Morgen Witzel Morgen Witzel (born 1960) is a Canadian historian, business theorist, consultant, lecturer and author of management books, especially known from his work on "Doing business in China" and on "Managing in virtual organizations".Fineman, Stephen, Yian ...

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Business theorist Organizational theory refers to a series of interrelated concepts that involve the sociological study of the structures and operations of formal social organizations. Organizational theory also seeks to explain how interrelated units of organiza ...

and Fellow at the Centre for Leadership Studies

References

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Educational institutions established in 1998 1998 establishments in England