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Former name | Cass Business School City Business School |
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| Type | Undergraduate, postgraduate, executive education, research |
| Established | 1966 |
| Accreditation | AMBA,AACBS,EQUIS |
| Dean | André Spicer |
Administrative staff | c. 500 |
| Students | c. 4,200 |
| Undergraduates | 2,200+ |
| Postgraduates | 1,850+ |
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| Location | , England ,United Kingdom 51°31′19″N0°05′24″W / 51.5220°N 0.0900°W /51.5220; -0.0900 |
| Campus | Urban |
| Website | www |
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Bayes Business School, formerly known asCass Business School,[1] is thebusiness school ofCity St George's, University of London, located inFinsbury in theLondon Borough of Islington, just to the north of theCity of London. It was established in 1966.
Bayes Business School is divided into the three faculties ofactuarial science andinsurance,finance, andmanagement.[2] It awardsBSc (Hons),MSc,MBA, andPhD degrees and is one of around 100 schools globally to betriple accredited by theAMBA in the United Kingdom,[3]EQUIS in Europe,[4] theAACSB in the United States and theTriple accreditation.[5]
The City University Business School was founded in 1966 as part of City University, London. Its MSc in Administrative Sciences began in 1967 and became the MBA in 1979.
In 2002, following a donation from the Sir John Cass Foundation, the school moved to new premises in theLondon Borough of Islington and changed its name to Cass Business School.[6]
This was a component of a plan development byLord Currie, who had been appointed dean the previous year, 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 residentialBarbican Centre development. Half of the £40 million in funding for the new building came from the reserves of City University.
Due toJohn Cass's links to slavery, the school was renamed Bayes Business School on 6 September 2021, afterThomas Bayes, a nonconformist theologian and mathematician best known for his foundational work on conditional probability.[1]
The school teaches programmes includinginsurance andrisk 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, internationalaccounting and finance, finance and investment, real estate investment, charity management, andbusiness analytics.
The school's MBA is offered full-time through a one-year course, through a two-year part-timeExecutive MBA, through a two-year modular Executive MBA and an online part-time option.
In September 2007, the business school started the EMBA programme in collaboration with DIFC (Dubai International Financial Centre).
Bayes Business School is now ranked 2nd in London, 6th in the UK, and 34th in Europe according to theFinancial Times European Business School2025 rankings. Bayes Business School has received the following rankings[7]:
The school's alumni association has more than 38,000 members in 160 countries.[8]
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