business schools: undergraduate degrees UK

The Times has ranked the business school undergraduate programmes in the UK on a combination of criteria explained below. This research was pubished in The Times in May 2001.

Business Schools UK - undergraduate degrees

1         UMIST
2         Warwick
3         London, LSE
4         Lancaster
5         Bath
6         Nottingham
7         Manchester
8         City
9         Strathclyde
10       London, Imperial

11       Loughborough
12       Edinburgh
13       Cranfield
14       Surrey
14       London, Royal Holloway
16       Kingston
17       St Andrews
18       De Montfort
19       Nottingham Trent
20       Bristol, West of England

21       Northumbria
22       Reading
22       Stirling
24       Southampton
25       Glamorgan
26       Cardiff
27       Sheffield
28       Leeds
29       Glasgow
30       Bradford

31       Birmingham
32       Cambridge
32       Keele
34       Aston
35       Aberystwyth
36       Oxford
37       Exeter
38       Robert Gordon
39       Bangor
40       London, Kings

41       East Anglia
42       Kent
43       Hull
44       Swansea
45       Newcastle
46       Brunel
47       Heriot- Watt
48       Ulster
49       Aberdeen
50       Durham

51       Leicester
52       Hertfordshire
53       Portsmouth
54       Bournemouth
55       Brighton
56       Oxford Brookes
57       Westminster
58       Huddersfield
59       Plymouth
60       Liverpool John Moores

61       Leeds Metropolitan
62       Sheffield Hallam
63       Manchester Metropolitan
64       Salford
65       Glasgow Caledonian
66       Central England
67       Paisley
68       Anglia
69       South Bank
70       Derby

71       Staffordshire
72       Central Lancashire
73       Middlesex
74       Abertay Dundee
75       North London
76       East London
77       Greenwich
78       Lincolnshire & Humberside
79       London Guildhall
80       Coventry

81       Teesside
82       Sunderland





A number of universites likely to appear near the bottom the table appear to be missing from this research and a couple of potentially higher ranked schools are also absent. If you were expecting to see London Business School here - it only offers postgrad degrees and this table is for undergraduate programmes.

The rankings for each business school are based on teaching quality assessment by the Quality Assessment Agency (50% of the ranking), the research ratings (30%) and the average A level grades of undergraduates in 1999 (20%).

At careerdynamo we feel this report should be treated as one useful input into the decision of undergraduate school. The overall reputation of the university often has more influence at undergraduate level. This is however a useful indication of the quality of individual departments.