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Cranfield School of Management

Cranfield School of Management, established in 1967,[2] is a business school that is part of Cranfield University in Bedfordshire, United Kingdom. Cranfield School of Management is triple accredited by the Association of MBAs (AMBA), EQUIS and AACSB.[3]

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1967 (1967)[1]

Professor David Oglethorpe

Campus[edit]

The Cranfield University campus, which includes the School of Management, is located just outside the village of Cranfield in the Bedfordshire countryside, near Milton Keynes.


The School's Management Information Resource Centre offers access to electronic resources and is equipped with a Bloomberg Suite,[4] a series of terminals offering access to live financial services news and data on industries, markets, economic indicators, equities, bonds and derivatives. The school also has a purpose-built residential management training centre.

1937: an RAF airbase was set up near Cranfield village in Bedfordshire in 1937 in the build-up to the Second World War.

1946: the airbase became the site of a College of Aeronautics to provide education and training for . Aspects of management were a feature of Cranfield programmes from the late 1940s.

aeronautical engineers

1953: the Work Study School, which evolved to become Cranfield School of Management, opened.

1964: the first Cranfield MBA programme was run.

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1967: Cranfield School of Management was founded.

1969: Cranfield was awarded its giving it university status and the power to confer degrees under the new name of Cranfield Institute of Technology.

Royal Charter

1993: Cranfield Institute of Technology changed its name to Cranfield University.

2001: Cranfield SoM gained , one of the first few to do so in the UK.

Triple accreditation

The Financial Times 2019 ranking of full-time MBA programmes, ranked 9th in the UK, 18th in Europe and 76th in the world.

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The Bloomberg Businessweek European Best B-Schools ranking of full-time MBA programmes 2019-20, ranked 16th in Europe overall, 2nd in Europe for the learning experience, 7th in Europe for networking and 9th in Europe for entrepreneurship.

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The Economist Which MBA? Rankings 2019, ranked 5th in the UK, 14th in Europe and 59th in the world.

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The QS Global MBA Rankings 2021 ranked 9th in the UK, 29th in Europe and 79th in the world.

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The Cranfield School of Management is highly ranked globally as well as nationally.


As an exclusively postgraduate university, the University is excluded from the Times Higher Education World Rankings, The Times World Rankings, The Complete University Guide and The Guardian, which focus on helping prospective undergraduate students to compare universities.


Full-time MBA ranking


Executive MBA ranking


Management MSc ranking


Finance and Management MSc ranking


Logistics and Supply Chain Management MSc ranking


Strategic Marketing MSc ranking


Executive Education ranking

University of Virginia, USA

Darden Graduate School of Business Administration

Shanghai

China Europe International Business School

Bangalore, India

Indian Institute of Management

Australia

Melbourne Business School

South Africa

Stellenbosch University

São Paulo, Brazil

Fundação Getúlio Vargas

University of Chile

Japan

Kobe University

Singapore

Nanyang Technological University

Mexico.

IPADE

Cranfield School of Management has Memoranda of Understanding with:


The School of Management has run programmes with and hosted exchange students from a number of business schools around the world including ESADE, Spain, EM Lyon, France, University of Cape Town, South Africa and University of Ghana, Accra, Ghana.

Cranfield School of Management