Cass Business School

The Business School (formerly Cass),[1] commonly known as Cass Business School, is the business school of the City, University of London, located in the St Luke's area. Established in 1966, it is consistently ranked as one of the top-ranking business schools in the United Kingdom.[2][3]

The Business School (formerly Cass)
TypeUndergraduate, postgraduate, executive education, research
Established1966
DeanPaolo Volpin (Interim Dean)
Administrative staff
c. 500
Studentsc. 4200
Undergraduates2200+
Postgraduates1850+
100
Location
London
,
United Kingdom
CampusUrban
Websitewww.cass.city.ac.uk

The Business School is divided into the three faculties of actuarial science and insurance, finance, and management.[4] It awards BSc (Hons), MSc, MBA and PhD degrees and is one of around 100 schools globally to be triple accredited by the AMBA in the United Kingdom,[5] EQUIS in Europe,[6] and the AACSB in the United States.[7]

History

The City University Business School was founded in 1966. Its MSc in Administrative Sciences began in 1967 and became the MBA in 1979.

Following a donation from the Sir John Cass Foundation it was renamed Cass Business School.[8] As of July 2020, Cass Business School was renamed The Business School (formerly Cass) due to Sir John Cass' link to slavery.

In 2002 the school moved to new premises in the London Borough of Islington, and changed its name as part of a strategy formed by Lord Currie of Marylebone, who had become Dean the year before, to compete as an international business school in a market dominated by US universities.

The school had previously been spread out across the City of London's mainly residential Barbican Centre development. Half of the £40 million funding for the new building came from the reserves of City, University of London.


Masters courses

The school teaches programmes including insurance and risk management, investment management, corporate finance, banking and International finance, quantitative finance, shipping, marketing, supply chain, energy, trade and finance, property valuation, mathematical trading, real estate, construction management, international accounting and finance, finance and investment, real estate investment, and business analytics

The school's MBA is offered full-time through a one-year course, or through two years part-time Executive MBA, or two years through the modular Executive MBA.

In September 2007 the business school started EMBA in collaboration with DIFC (Dubai International Financial Centre).

School rankings

The school was in the top 10 in the UK under both "Accounting and Finance" and "Business and Management" in the 2017 QS World University Rankings by subjects.[9] In the 2017 Eduniversal BestMaster:[10]

  1. MSc International Accounting & Finance ranked 5th in the UK under Accounting & Audit.
  2. MSc Insurance & Risk Management ranked 12th in the world and 1st in the UK under Insurance category.

In 2017 the Times Higher Education world university rankings listed the school 8th in the UK under "Business and Economics".[11]

Notable alumni

The school's Alumni Association has more than 38,000 members in 160 countries.[12]

References
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  7. "AACSB Accredited Schools Listing". AACSB. July 2010. Archived from the original on 5 June 2019. Retrieved 21 July 2010.
  8. "Cass Business School's Fact Sheet" (PDF). Retrieved 11 May 2014.
  9. "Business & Management Studies". Top Universities. 2 March 2017.
  10. "Masters ranked at City University of London". www.best-masters.com.
  11. "World University Rankings 2016-2017 by subject: business and economics". Times Higher Education (THE). 20 September 2016.
  12. "Cass Alumni Statistics". Cass Business School. Archived from the original on 13 August 2011. Retrieved 19 January 2010.
  13. "Bank Of New York Mellon Corp". BusinessWeek. Retrieved 25 March 2013.
  14. "Professor Liu Mingkang". Archived from the original on 26 October 2012. Retrieved 25 March 2013.
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