Durham Business School

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Durham Business School

Established	1965
Type:	Business School
Dean:	Professor Rob Dixon (Acting Dean)
Students:	2,588
Location	Durham, United Kingdom
Campus:	Semi-rural
Affiliations:	EQUIS & AMBA
Website:	http://www.dur.ac.uk/dbs/

Durham Business School (DBS) in Durham, UK, is the international business school of Durham University. Established in 1965 it is one of the oldest business school in the United Kingdom. The School offers postgraduate degrees in management, finance and economics, including:

At the undergraduate level it offers degrees in the fields of Economics and Finance and Business, Finance and Accounting. The University's department of Economics and Finance and the Foundation for Small and Medium Enterprise Development merged with the Business School in 2002 to become the School of Economics, Finance and Business, more commonly known as Durham Business School or DBS. The school has over 10,000 alumni belonging to its Agora association.

1 Reputation & Scholarships
2 Organisational Relationships
3 Alumni
4 Degree Programmes
5 Research
6 References
7 See also
8 External links

Durham Business School's MBA has been rated as one of the top ten in the UK and top 100 World-wide by the Economist Intelligence Unit.

The Economist ranked the MBA 57th in the world ^[1] in 2006 (62nd in 2005 & 84th in 2004)
The Financial Times global rankings ranked the MBA 96 in the world in 2007^[2] and 16th Europe. The DBS MBA is ranked 2nd in the world for career progress (1st in the UK). ^[3]
Distance Learning MBA among the Financial Times’ world's top 25 distance learning MBAs.
Teaching in economics and finance received the maximum 24 score in the last QAA subject review.
Finance and Accounting research was graded 5* in the last Research Assessment Exercise.
The Association of MBAs recently re-accredited all MBA programmes for the maximum five-year period.
EQUIS accreditation awarded in 2005.

The school has a variety of scholarships aimed at postgraduates including^[4]:

The Dean’s Scholarships for PhD, MBA and Masters programmes
Independent Newspaper Scholarships
British Chevening Scholarships
Shell Centenary and Shell Chevening Scholarships
Fulbright Awards (for US applicants)
Commonwealth Scholarship & Fellowship Plan
9/11 Scholarship Fund
Hobsons Bursary
Rotary Ambassador scholarships

The Business School has a variety of links with companies and organisations as well as other academic institutions.

The school's academic network includes the:

China Europe International Business School, Shanghai - China
Duke University - United States of America
European Business School International University Schloss Reichartshausen - Germany
Fudan University, Shanghai - China
University of Groningen - The Netherlands
Renmin University of China, Beijing - China
Sinerghia Institute of Economics and Finance, Moscow - Russia
Szamalk Open Business School, Budapest - Hungary.
The University of Tokyo - Japan
University of Trento, Trento - Italy

The school's business network includes:

Graham Moffitt MBA - Senior Vice-President, Bank of America^[6]

The school offers a wide range of degree programmes at both undergraduate and postgraduate level, as well as executive-level MAs. The following courses are currently offered:-

Full-time MBA
Executive MBA (part-time)
Finance MBA
Distance Learning MBA
DBS and EBS Executive MBA
Caribbean MBA
Sinerghia MBA (Distance Learning)

The Master of Science award is finance-based and the Master of Arts is business management-based. The School offers the following programmes:

MSc

Accounting and Finance
Corporate and International Finance
Economics and Finance
Finance
Finance and Investment
International Banking and Finance
International Money, Finance and Investment.

Entrepreneurship
Financial Management
Human Resource Management
Management (full-time and distance learning)
Marketing (full-time and distance learning)

The School offers two executive masters in Enterprise Management and Business Transformation. The Executive masters in Enterprise Management is a part-time (max 5 year) course that focuses on enterprise in finance, marketing and organisations as well as research into business. The business transformation executive masters focuses on developing an holistic view of business transformations and change as well as planning, developing and managing change in a business environment. The school also offers two research degrees; the DBA and MPhil/PhD. Both the degrees focus on research in business and micro and macro perspectives.