About Leeds University Business School

Leeds University Business School has a global reputation which makes it home to high-calibre postgraduate and MBA students:

• 'Rated 5’ (excellent) for the “international standing and quality of its research” in the most recent Research Assessment Exercise, 2001
• The Financial Times draws attention to the school's outstanding performance in research - Ranked 3rd in Europe, 40th in the world
• In The Financial Times 2006 MBA/Business Schools Survey, LUBS is ranked 82nd in the world, 12th in the UK and 20th in Europe. This places LUBS above other well-known business schools such as Nottingham, Durham and Birmingham
• Rated 60th in the world by The Economist Intelligence Unit in Which MBA? 17th edition, 2005
• Rated 13th equal in Business Studies, and 20th in Economics, in The Times Good University Guide, 2007
• Leeds is a member of the prestigious Russell Group, an association of 19 major UK research-intensive universities. The Russell Group promotes and supports the contribution of top-level university research to national economic growth and innovation
• LUBS holds EQUIS accreditation from the European Foundation for Management Development. This is a distinction earned by 86 business schools worldwide, including only 16 in the UK
• LUBS holds accreditation from the Association of MBAs (AMBA) for the Leeds MBA, both Full-time and Executive formats, and for the MSc Management. Only 27 out of over 100 UK business schools hold AMBA accreditation.
• The Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD) has accredited both the MA in Human Resource Management (full-time and part-time), and the BA in Human Resource Management.
• The Business School is host to 500 postgraduate students every year. It also hosts each year a number of students with 5-10 year work experience enrolled in a one-year executive MBA at the Indian Institute of Management at Ahmedabad, India’s top Business School, as part of their “International Immersion” programme.