Nottingham University Business School (NUBS) remains the UK’s leading provider for MBAs which offer future business leaders a valuable insight into wider corporate social responsibility, according to a prestigious international survey.
It is the fourth time the School has retained the top spot amongst UK universities in the Beyond Grey Pinstripes ranking, an independent biennial survey of the world’s Top 100 MBAs focused on social and environmental impact conducted by The Aspen Institute in the US.
In the 2011 survey, Nottingham also outstrips all other UK business schools — and comes in at 23 globally — in the research element of the ranking, which judges faculties on the quality of its research output incorporating social, ethical and environmental business issues.
Professor Martin Binks, Dean of Nottingham University Business School, said, “I am delighted that The Aspen Institute ranking confirms our leadership among UK business schools in fully integrating sustainability and corporate social responsibility issues into our MBA curriculum and faculty research.
“Sustainability in business is having a significant impact on organisations and it is vital that we equip our graduates with the knowledge and skills to deal with complex business environments.”
Nottingham has been a leader in sustainable and ethical business teaching and research since it launched its International Centre for Corporate Social Responsibility almost 10 years ago in 2002.
Since then, the addition of modules in areas as diverse as ethical finance, corporate governance, social entrepreneurship, and sustainable management running through its undergraduate, postgraduate, and executive education programmes, the Business School has become a major draw for students and organisations interested in sustainable business practices.
Nottingham University Business School boasts some of the world’s leading experts on CSR topics such as reporting and diversity, education and the impact that it is having on the corporate landscape in Asia.
For the 2011-12 Beyond Grey Pinstripes ranking, 149 schools from 22 countries submitted information on the social and environmental elements of its courses, research, extracurricular activities, institutes and centres, joint degrees and specialisations.
The 2011-12 ranking
The Aspen Institute project team spent seven months analysing the data before arriving at its Top 100 ranking, which is broken down further into four main categories — the number of courses featuring relevant content; the proportion of students exposed to CSR content, business impact ie. the number of relevant courses that focus on the positive role for-profit business can play in social and environmental change; and the CSR-related research paper output.
The overall global top spot for the 2011 rankings went to US giant Stanford Graduate School of Business, while York University in Canada was found to be strongest for its ethical and sustainable research output.
Nottingham University Business School attained an overall global ranking of 45 and came in eighth among European institutions.
For more information about the Aspen Institute's Beyond Grey Pinstripes ranking, please visit www.beyondgreypinstripes.org
About the NUBS MBA - Nottingham University Business School is a leading centre for management education. Its mission is to be a top-ranked international business school, excellent in both teaching and research. NUBS Malaysia continues to demonstrate these standards, providing South East Asia with its first experience of a world-class business school on a purpose-built campus and with highly qualified faculty drawn from Nottingham, Malaysia and internationally. NUBS Malaysia offers top quality AMBA-accredited MBA programmes - the general MBA, MBA Finance and MBA Entrepreneurship. The School's graduates are highly sought after in the job market, with many alumni holding senior management positions both in Malaysia and internationally.
Posted on 30th September 2011