Coventry Business School
Coventry Business School is a business school located in Coventry, United Kingdom. It is a department of Coventry University and its Faculty of Business and Law. The School offers undergraduate and postgraduate degrees in subjects such as economics, marketing, event management and applied management.
The School is an accredited study centre of the Chartered Institute of Marketing and is a member of the Association of Business Schools.
History
A Faculty of Business was formed in 1987 by the then Lanchester Polytechnic and the Business School was established in 1990, by when the parent body was known as Coventry Polytechnic. The polytechnic became Coventry University in 1992.The School's home, the William Morris building, dates from 1916. Car entrepreneur William Morris bought it in 1923 to produce car engines. Acquired by the university in 1992, the building has been extensively renovated and now includes IT labs, lecture theatres, specialist post-graduate teaching facilities and also houses the biggest academic trading floor in Europe.
Structure
Coventry Business School incorporates the following:- School of Economics, Finance and Accounting
- School of Strategy and Leadership
- 'School of Marketing and Management'''''
Academic profile
The School offers undergraduate, postgraduate and research programmes, including MBAs in a variety of different subjects. Of note was the launch at The House of Commons in 2015 of The National MBA in Cyber Security. The MBA was the brainchild of Professor Richard Benham who is a visiting professor at the university.The School is a member of EFMD and of the Association of UK Business Schools. The School has partnerships with many overseas universities, including Oulu ; Beijing and Guangzhou in China; ESC Clermont, ESC Montpellier and ESC St Etienne in France; and Kraków University of Economics in Poland.