The UCL School of Management is the
business school
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of
University College London
, mottoeng = Let all come who by merit deserve the most reward
, established =
, type = Public research university
, endowment = £143 million (2020)
, budget = ...
(UCL) and is located in
Canary Wharf
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and
Bloomsbury
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Bloomsbury is home of the British Museum, the largest mus ...
, London. The school offers undergraduate, postgraduate, executive and PhD programmes in management with a focus on innovation, technology, analytics and entrepreneurship.
History
UCL's Department of Management Science and Innovation was established in 2007 along with UCL Advances, UCL's centre for business interaction and entrepreneurship.
Steven C. Currall held the founding chair of the department. The department was established during a period of partnership between UCL and
London Business School (LBS), both of which are constituent colleges of federal
University of London
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and the department initially offered a master's degree in Technology Entrepreneurship and an undergraduate degree in Information Management for Business. The department grew significantly between 2007 and 2015 and expanded its offerings to include a master's in Management and bachelor's degree in Management Science.
In August, 2015, the Department of Management Science and Innovation was renamed the UCL School of Management, with Bert De Reyck as founding Director.
Location
![UCL School of Management view](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f0/UCL_School_of_Management_view.jpg)
The UCL School of Management is located at Level 38 of
One Canada Square
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On ...
in
Canary Wharf
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, one of London's financial districts. The school is in close proximity to Level39, Europe’s biggest financial technology accelerator, located in the same building. The school, working in association with UCL Advances, is closely linked to
East London Tech City
East London Tech City (also known as Tech City and Silicon Roundabout) is a technology cluster of high-tech companies located in East London, United Kingdom. Its main area lies broadly between St Luke's and Hackney Road, with an accelerator spac ...
, the third-largest technology startup cluster in the world. The school also has a base on the main UCL campus in
Bloomsbury
Bloomsbury is a district in the West End of London. It is considered a fashionable residential area, and is the location of numerous cultural, intellectual, and educational institutions.
Bloomsbury is home of the British Museum, the largest mus ...
, where the School's undergraduate programmes are based.
Research
The UCL School of Management currently comprises 25 research faculty and 50 teaching faculty that focus in areas of
Organizational Behavior
Organizational behavior (OB) or organisational behaviour is the: "study of human behavior in organizational settings, the interface between human behavior and the organization, and the organization itself".Moorhead, G., & Griffin, R. W. (1995) ...
,
Innovation
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,
Entrepreneurship
Entrepreneurship is the creation or extraction of economic value. With this definition, entrepreneurship is viewed as change, generally entailing risk beyond what is normally encountered in starting a business, which may include other values th ...
,
Strategy
Strategy (from Greek στρατηγία ''stratēgia'', "art of troop leader; office of general, command, generalship") is a general plan to achieve one or more long-term or overall goals under conditions of uncertainty. In the sense of the "art ...
,
Operations Management,
Marketing
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and
Analytics
Analytics is the systematic computational analysis of data or statistics. It is used for the discovery, interpretation, and communication of meaningful patterns in data. It also entails applying data patterns toward effective decision-making. It ...
. In the UK government’s 2014
Research Excellence Framework (REF), 55 per cent of the school's research output was judged to be "world-leading", and it ranked second in UK (after
LBS) for world leading (4*) research output.
Martin Kilduff is the founding Deputy Director of Research of the school.
UCL departments in closely related fields of computer science, economics, planning and psychology, were ranked at the top for research in UK in the 2014
REF assessment. Moreover, in the REF assessment, UCL had the largest output of world leading (4*) research in
STEM
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* Stipe (botany), a stalk to support some other structure
* Stipe (mycology), the stem of a mushro ...
(Panel A and B) and social sciences (Panel C) among UK universities and it ranked at the top for overall research strength.
History of management research at UCL
Although management has recently emerged as specific area of research at UCL, some prominent figures in closely related fields were faculty members at UCL.
Karl Pearson
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who founded the world's first statistics department at UCL in 1911, is regarded as the father of modern
statistics
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. Pearson's mentor and polymath,
Francis Galton
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, who founded the erstwhile
Galton Laboratory
The Galton Laboratory was a laboratory for research into eugenics and then into human genetics based at University College London in London, England. It was originally established in 1904, and became part of UCL's biology department in 1996.
The a ...
of UCL, is considered to be the father of
psychometrics and
differential psychology
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. Several important contributions to areas such as statistics and
evolutionary game theory were made by figures like
Kirstine Smith,
Ronald Fisher,
J.B.S. Haldane
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and
John Maynard Smith associated with the lab. In the field of
experimental psychology
Experimental psychology refers to work done by those who apply experimental methods to psychological study and the underlying processes. Experimental psychologists employ human participants and animal subjects to study a great many topics, in ...
, several faculty members of UCL's Faculty of Brain Sciences like
James Sully
James Sully (3 March 1842 – 1 November 1923) was an English psychologist.
Biography
James Sully was born at Bridgwater, Somerset, the son of J. W. Sully, a liberal Baptist merchant and ship-owner. He was educated at the Independent Colle ...
,
Charles Spearman and
Tim Shallice
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made noted contributions to advance the field.
The Bartlett
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, was the first architecture and built environment school established in the UK in 1841 and since, many of its faculty members like
Patrick Abercrombie and
Peter Hall have made notable contributions to the field of planning. Moreover, 1922 Nobel Laureate and faculty member of
UCL Medical School,
Archibald Hill is considered to be one of the founders of
Operations Research
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.
Reputation and ranking
The school ranked as one of the most research intensive departments for management research in UK in 2014
REF evaluation.
The school's undergraduate program is ranked third overall in UK and second in graduate prospects in
Complete University Guide
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of 2022. Its master's program in Management is highly selective with around twenty applications made for every place.
The school's master's program in Technology Entrepreneurship has spun out several successful startups.
University College London ranked 13th in the world (4th in Europe) in 2014 Global Employability Survey and it ranks highly in UK for career outcomes in accounting, designing, finance, investment banking and software development. UCL is considered to be one of the leading multidisciplinary research universities in the world
and ranks highly in national and international league tables.
Student life
![University College London Union](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d0/University_College_London_Union.jpg)
All students of UCL are automatically members of
University College London Union which has over 200 clubs and societies covering a wide range of sporting, cultural and artistic interests. Societies like UCLU Business Society, Economics and Finance Society and Entrepreneur Society specifically cater to students interested in entrepreneurship, business, economics and finance.
UCL Advances, which has close links to School of Management, runs series of programs like the Bright Ideas Awards,
Citrus Saturday
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, London Entrepreneurs' Challenge and Entrepreneurship Guest Lectures to engage students interested in entrepreneurship, and offers incubation programs to support start-ups in
East London Tech City
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and support to small businesses through programs like
Goldman Sachs 10,000 Small Businesses. UCL Advances, along with
UCL Business
UCL Business PLC is the technology-transfer company of University College London Hospital NHS Foundation Trust in London, England. Its head office is on Tottenham Court Road in the London Borough of Camden.
History
UCL's first technology-tra ...
and UCL Consultants, is part of UCL Enterprise, which provides structures for engaging with business for commercial and societal benefit via entrepreneurship, technology transfer (see
UCL Business
UCL Business PLC is the technology-transfer company of University College London Hospital NHS Foundation Trust in London, England. Its head office is on Tottenham Court Road in the London Borough of Camden.
History
UCL's first technology-tra ...
) and consulting.
UCL's Bloomsbury campus has several cafes and bars and cultural venues like the
Grant Museum and
Bloomsbury Theatre
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. Located in central London, it is close to London's major cultural and recreational venues, like the
British Museum
The British Museum is a public museum dedicated to human history, art and culture located in the Bloomsbury area of London. Its permanent collection of eight million works is among the largest and most comprehensive in existence. It docum ...
,
Camden Town
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and
West End. UCLU has over 50 sporting clubs and a fitness centre in Bloomsbury, a sports centre in
Somers Town and a 90-acre athletics ground in Shenley which until 1998 was also used by
Arsenal F.C.
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Student Central (erstwhile
University of London Union) also provides sporting, fitness, cultural and recreational facilities including central London's largest swimming pool, accessible to all
University of London
The University of London (UoL; abbreviated as Lond or more rarely Londin in post-nominals) is a federal public research university located in London, England, United Kingdom. The university was established by royal charter in 1836 as a degree ...
students.
References
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