Bayes Business School, formerly known as Cass Business School, is the

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, located in St Luke's, just to the north of the City of London. It was established in 1966, and it is consistently ranked as one of the leading business schools in the United Kingdom. Bayes Business School is divided into the three faculties of actuarial science and

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, and

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. It awards BSc (Hons), MSc,

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and PhD degrees and is one of around 100 schools globally to be triple accredited by the

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in the United Kingdom,

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in Europe, and the

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in the United States.

History

The City University Business School was founded in 1966 as part of City University, London. Its MSc in Administrative Sciences began in 1967 and became the MBA in 1979. In 2002, following a donation from the Sir John Cass Foundation, the school moved to new premises in the

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, and changed its name to Cass Business School. This was part of a strategy formed by Lord Currie of Marylebone, who had become Dean the year before, to compete as an international business school in a market dominated by US universities. The school had previously been spread out across the City of London's mainly residential

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development. Half of the £40 million funding for the new building came from the reserves of City University. Due to

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' links to slavery, the school was renamed to Bayes Business School on 6 September 2021, after

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, a nonconformist theologian and mathematician best known for his foundational work on conditional probability.

Masters courses

The school teaches programmes including

and risk management,

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corporate finance Corporate finance is the area of finance that deals with the sources of funding, the capital structure of corporations, the actions that managers take to increase the Value investing, value of the firm to the shareholders, and the tools and anal ...

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ing and International finance,

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marketing Marketing is the process of exploring, creating, and delivering value to meet the needs of a target market in terms of goods and services; potentially including selection of a target audience; selection of certain attributes or themes to emph ...

supply chain In commerce, a supply chain is a network of facilities that procure raw materials, transform them into intermediate goods and then final products to customers through a distribution system. It refers to the network of organizations, people, acti ...

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trade Trade involves the transfer of goods and services from one person or entity to another, often in exchange for money. Economists refer to a system or network that allows trade as a market. An early form of trade, barter, saw the direct excha ...

and finance, property valuation, mathematical trading,

real estate Real estate is property consisting of land and the buildings on it, along with its natural resources such as crops, minerals or water; immovable property of this nature; an interest vested in this (also) an item of real property, (more general ...

construction management Construction management (CM) is a professional service that uses specialized, project management techniques and software to oversee the planning, design, construction and closeout of a project. The purpose of Construction management is to control ...

, international

accounting Accounting, also known as accountancy, is the measurement, processing, and communication of financial and non financial information about economic entities such as businesses and corporations. Accounting, which has been called the "languag ...

and finance, finance and investment, real estate investment, and

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The school's MBA is offered full-time through a one-year course, or through two years part-time

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, or two years through the modular Executive MBA. In September 2007 the business school started EMBA in collaboration with DIFC (

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School rankings

The school was in the top 10 in the UK under both "Accounting and Finance" and "Business and Management" in the 2017

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by subjects. In the 2017

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BestMaster: # MSc International Accounting & Finance ranked 5th in the UK under Accounting & Audit. # MSc Insurance & Risk Management ranked 12th in the world and 1st in the UK under Insurance category. In 2017 the ''Times Higher Education'' world university rankings listed the school 8th in the UK under "Business and Economics".

Notable alumni

The school's Alumni Association has more than 38,000 members in 160 countries. * William Castell – Chairman of the

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; a Director of

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and BP; former

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* Peter Cullum – British entrepreneur *

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– Conservative Member of Parliament and Chair of the Defence Select Committee *

Stelios Haji-Ioannou Sir Stelios Haji-Ioannou ( el, Στέλιος Χατζηιωάννου, translit=Stelios Hatziioannou; born 14 February 1967) is a Greek Cypriot entrepreneur. Born into a wealthy ship-owning family, he is best known for founding the low-cost ai ...

– founder of

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philanthropist; physicist; tech guru and Chair of the RFU * Bob Kelly – former CEO of

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and

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– CEO of

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; former president and COO of Coca-Cola International and

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(born 1959) - chief operating officer of investment trust

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, and a

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member of the

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– former Chairman of the

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* Barrie Pettman, Baron of Bombie, co-founder and Chairman Emeritus of the

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; President Emeritus of

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* Syed Ali Raza – President and Chairman of the

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* Set Aung –

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and

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, incumbent Deputy Planning and Finance Minister of Myanmar *

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– former Chief Executive of the UK

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* Jeff Wooller – British accountant * Ruth Yeoh – Malaysian environmentalist and businesswoman *

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– Internet Personality and Motivational Speaker *

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– American-born YouTuber based in

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, England * Jihan Abass – Kenyan entrepreneur, business woman, CEO and founder of Lami Insurance Technology and Griffin Insurance

References

External links

Official website
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