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Manchester Business School tops UK’s research elite
Manchester Business School is the UK's leading centre for business research, according to the Research Assessment Exercise (RAE) 2008.
Of the participating UK schools, research generated by MBS' world-leading academics topped the results for research power (quality x volume). Significantly, MBS now stands to benefit from an injection of government research funding in 2009.
Professor Michael Luger, director and dean of Manchester Business School, said:
"These outstanding results clearly show the School is punching its weight in terms of internationally relevant academic study. 65% of our research staff are judged to be carrying out work which is “world-leading” (4*) or “internationally excellent” (3*)."
He continued: "MBS has always been renowned for the calibre of its original thinking and these results confirm that we are pacesetters for international research. This is also exciting news for all our students who will continue to benefit from the School’s world-leading research."
The results are a clear indication that MBS has progressed substantially since the 2004 merger. In 2001 only one of the four units (Accounting and Finance) that combined to form the new MBS gained the top rating.
The new results show that research excellence is now embedded across the whole school - demonstrating that MBS is well on track to achieving its aim of becoming a world-class research school by 2015.
MBS is part of the University of Manchester which, according to the RAE, today emerges amongst the country’s top four or five universities and is proving competitive with the University College London and Imperial College and just behind Oxford and Cambridge. MBS is well on track to becoming a world class centre for research in business and management within a world class research University.
In the past four years, The University of Manchester has achieved a net growth of close to 1,000 new researchers and invested more than £403 million in new and refurbished facilities.
Research quality is assessed every few years through the Research Assessment Exercise to allocate research funding and to provide information on the quality of the research in UK universities.
For more information please contact:
Kate Jeffery
kate.jeffery@mbs.ac.uk
0161 275 7090
