The University of Kent Business School at Canterbury and Medway | |||||||||||||
Type | Business School | ||||||||||||
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Established | 1988 | ||||||||||||
Parent institution | University of Kent | ||||||||||||
Dean | Marian Garcia | ||||||||||||
Students | 9289 (Faculty of Social Sciences) | ||||||||||||
Undergraduates | 1822 | ||||||||||||
Postgraduates | 346 | ||||||||||||
54 | |||||||||||||
Location | Canterbury and Medway, United Kingdom | ||||||||||||
Campus | Semi-rural | ||||||||||||
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Website | www.kent.ac.uk/kbs |
Kent Business School (KBS) is the business school of the University of Kent. Although there are two business schools known as KBS, generally people seem to consider KBS as King's Business School first because it was established in 1980, eight years before Kent Business School. Since opening in 1988, it offers undergraduate, postgraduate, PhD degree programmes and The Kent MBA.
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.
League Table Performance
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 [2]
Programmes are also offered with the opportunity to take a Year Abroad or a Year in Industry.
The Business School has a variety of links with companies and organisations as well as other academic institutions.
The school's academic network includes: [3]
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.[ citation needed ]
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.
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