Nottingham University Business School

Nottingham University Business School is the business school of the University of Nottingham, United Kingdom situated on the university's Jubilee Campus, close to Nottingham city centre.
The school has three campuses in the UK, China and Malaysia. It is among a group of international business schools that hold triple accreditation from the leading accrediting organisations: AACSB, AMBA and EQUIS.

WWW nottingham.ac.uk/business

History

List of deans

Leigh Drake
Martin Binks
Alistair Bruce
James Devlin
Duncan Angwin
David Park

Organisation

Academic departments

Research and teaching on the business school's UK campus is organised into six academic departments:

Entrepreneurship, sustainability and innovation
Finance, accounting and banking
Industrial economics
Marketing, tourism and analytics
Operations management and information systems
Work, organisation and management

The China campus has three academic departments:

Entrepreneurship, marketing and management systems
Finance, accounting and economics
International business and management

The Malaysia campus is not organised into departments but instead into research clusters.

Research centres and institutes

The UK campus is home to eight research centres:

Centre for health innovation, leadership and learning
Centre for private equity and MBO research
Centre for research in the behavioural sciences
Centre for society, nature and organisations
Haydn Green institute for innovation and entrepreneurship
Global centre for banking and financial innovation
N/LAB
Sustainable travel and tourism advanced research centre

There are also six research centres on the China campus:

Centre for inclusive finance
Ningbo centre for new structural economics
Nottingham China health institute
UNNC–NFTZ blockchain laboratory
Zhejiang provincial branding academy
AHRC centre

The four research clusters on the Malaysia campus are:

Accounting, finance and law
Business analytics and economics
Marketing, entrepreneurship, innovation and international business
Organisations, leadership, strategy and sustainability

Academic profile

Degree programmes

Nottingham University Business School offers undergraduate, master's and PhD degrees at all of its campuses. The UK campus also offers full-time MBAs, executive MBAs and executive education programmes, while the China campus offers part-time MBAs and the Malaysia campus offers executive MBAs.

Reputation and rankings

Nottingham University Business School's MBA programme was ranked joint 50th in Europe and 141–150 globally by QS World University Rankings in 2025. It did not feature in the Financial Times global or European MBA rankings for 2025.
The Corporate Knights 2025 Better World MBA ranking rated Nottingham University Business School 16th globally for sustainability research and education.