 UCL School of Management is based at the One Canada Square building in Canary Wharf, London | |
| Type | Business school |
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| Established | 2007 |
Academic affiliation | University College London |
| Director | Davide Ravasi |
| Location | , |
| Campus | Urban |
| Website | mgmt.ucl.ac.uk |
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TheUCL School of Management is thebusiness school ofUniversity College London (UCL). The School offers undergraduate, postgraduate, PhD and executive programmes in management, entrepreneurship, business analytics, business information systems, and finance.
UCL's Department of Management Science and Innovation was established in 2007 along with UCL Advances, UCL's centre for business interaction and entrepreneurship.Steven C. Currall held the founding chair of the department.[1] The department was established during a period of partnership between UCL andLondon Business School (LBS), both of which are constituent colleges of federalUniversity of London and the department initially offered a master's degree in Technology Entrepreneurship and an undergraduate degree in Information Management for Business.[citation needed] The department grew significantly between 2007 and 2015 and expanded its offerings to include a master's in Management and bachelor's degree in Management Science.
In August, 2015, the Department of Management Science and Innovation was renamed the UCL School of Management, with Bert De Reyck as founding Director.
In July 2021, Professor Davide Ravasi was confirmed as the next director of the UCL School of Management with immediate effect for a period of five years in the first instance.
The UCL School of Management is located on Levels 38 and 50 (~194m up) ofOne Canada Square inCanary Wharf financial estate in theLondon Docklands. The school is located in the same building as Level39, Europe’s biggest financial technology accelerator.[2] The school, working in association with UCL Advances, is closely linked toEast London Tech City, the third-largest technology startup cluster in the world.[3] The school also has a base on the main UCL campus inBloomsbury, where the School's undergraduate programmes are based.
The UCL School of Management currently comprises 25 research faculty and 50 teaching faculty that focus in areas ofOrganizational Behavior,Innovation,Entrepreneurship,Strategy,Operations Management,Marketing andAnalytics. In the UK government’s 2014Research Excellence Framework (REF), 55 per cent of the school's research output was judged to be "world-leading", and it ranked second in UK (afterLBS) for world leading (4*) research output.[4]Martin Kilduff is the founding Deputy Director of Research of the school.
UCL departments in closely related fields of computer science,[5] economics,[6] planning[7] and psychology,[8] were ranked at the top for research in UK in the 2014REF assessment. Moreover, in the REF assessment, UCL had the largest output of world leading (4*) research inSTEM (Panel A and B) and social sciences (Panel C) among UK universities and it ranked at the top for overall research strength.[9]
Although management has recently emerged as specific area of research at UCL, some prominent figures in closely related fields were faculty members at UCL.Karl Pearson who founded the world's first statistics department at UCL in 1911, is regarded as the father of modernstatistics.[10] Pearson's mentor and polymath,Francis Galton, who founded the erstwhileGalton Laboratory of UCL, is considered to be the father ofpsychometrics anddifferential psychology. Several important contributions to areas such as statistics andevolutionary game theory were made by figures likeKirstine Smith,Ronald Fisher,J.B.S. Haldane andJohn Maynard Smith associated with the lab. In the field ofexperimental psychology, several faculty members of UCL's Faculty of Brain Sciences likeJames Sully,Charles Spearman andTim Shallice made noted contributions to advance the field.[11]The Bartlett, was the first architecture and built environment school established in the UK in 1841 and since, many of its faculty members likePatrick Abercrombie andPeter Hall have made notable contributions to the field of planning.[12] Moreover, 1922 Nobel Laureate and faculty member ofUCL Medical School,Archibald Hill is considered to be one of the founders ofOperations Research.
Its master's program in management has around twenty applications made for every place.[13][14] The school's master's program in technology entrepreneurship has spun out several successful startups.[15][16]
All students of UCL are automatically members ofUniversity College London Union which has over 200 clubs and societies covering a wide range of sporting, cultural and artistic interests. Societies like UCLU Business Society, Economics and Finance Society and Entrepreneur Society specifically cater to students interested in entrepreneurship, business, economics and finance.
UCL Advances, which has close links to School of Management, runs series of programs like the Bright Ideas Awards,Citrus Saturday, London Entrepreneurs' Challenge and Entrepreneurship Guest Lectures to engage students interested in entrepreneurship, and offers incubation programs to support start-ups inEast London Tech City and support to small businesses through programs likeGoldman Sachs 10,000 Small Businesses. UCL Advances, along withUCL Business and UCL Consultants, is part of UCL Enterprise, which provides structures for engaging with business for commercial and societal benefit via entrepreneurship, technology transfer (seeUCL Business) and consulting.
UCLU has over 50 sporting clubs and a fitness centre in Bloomsbury, a sports centre inSomers Town and a 90-acre athletics ground in Shenley which until 1998 was also used byArsenal F.C. Student Central (erstwhileUniversity of London Union) also provides sporting, fitness, cultural and recreational facilities including central London's largest swimming pool, accessible to allUniversity of London students.[citation needed]
The Bartlett has the most world-leading research in its field in the UK, according to the Government's Research Excellence Framework (REF2014).
It [Masters in Management] is said to have attracted 3,000 applicants for an intake of around 150 in 2014 – at 5%, that's a highly selective acceptance rate in itself.
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