Kent Business School


Kent Business School is the business school of the University of Kent. Since opening in 1988, it offers undergraduate, postgraduate, MBA and PhD programmes.
KBS is sited in two locations, at The University of Kent campus in Canterbury and at Medway on Chatham Historic Dockyard.
In March 2017, Kent Business School at the Canterbury Campus moved into its new home, The Sibson Building, named after the University of Kent's third Vice-Chancellor, Professor Robin Sibson.

Rankings & reputation

League Table Performance
  • 31st in the UK for Business and Management Studies
  • 26th in the UK for Accounting and Finance
  • 9th in the UK for Marketing

Degree programmes

The University of Kent's business school currently runs a variety of Undergraduate, Postgraduate, PhD programmes and an MBA. At undergraduate level, competition for places at KBS are relatively competitive with the average KBS student achieving ABB-AAB at A-Level to secure a place

Undergraduate

Programmes are also offered with the opportunity to take a Year Abroad or a Year in Industry.

Postgraduate

PhD

Organisational relationships

The Business School has a variety of links with companies and organisations as well as other academic institutions.
The school's academic network includes:

Research

Kent Business School carries out research related activities including workshops, conferences and research seminar series. This has led to a large number of international collaborations and to over 200 co-authored papers with international partners.
Research groups include; Accounting, Finance, Management Science, Marketing, People Management and Organisation, Strategy and International Business.
Research centres include; The Centre for Quantitative Finance and The Centre for Logistics and Heuristic Optimisation.