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Edinburgh Business School

Coordinates:55°54′32″N3°19′16″W/ 55.909°N 3.321°W/55.909; -3.321
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Not to be confused withUniversity of Edinburgh Business School.
Edinburgh Business School
MottoDeveloping tomorrow's business leaders for tomorrow's markets
TypePublic
Established1990[1](HWU est. 1821)
FounderDr. Keith G. Lumsden
Executive DeanProfessorHeather McGregor,CBE
Location
Edinburgh
,
Lothians
,
Scotland

55°54′32″N3°19′16″W/ 55.909°N 3.321°W/55.909; -3.321
CampusHeriot-Watt University campuses: Edinburgh, Dubai and Malaysia.
Websitewww.hw.ac.uk/ebs/

Edinburgh Business School(EBS) is the Graduate School of Business ofHeriot-Watt University(est. 1821),Edinburgh,Scotland.Heriot-Watt University awards degrees byroyal charter.[2]Heriot-Watt University was ranked as the 3rd best British university to study economics byBusiness Insiderin 2017,[3]and featured in theAcademic Ranking of World UniversitiesTop 200 to study Finance and in theQS World University RankingsTop 200 to study Statistics & Operational Research. There are currently over 11,850 active students studying Edinburgh Business School programmes and more than 19,200 graduates across 165 countries worldwide.

Programmes

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The School offers a range of postgraduate programmes including aMaster of Business Administration(MBA) programme, one of the largest international programmes of its kind in the world. The MBA is offered on-campus in Edinburgh, Dubai and Malaysia, through a network of 23 Approved Learning Partners across the world, by independentdistance learningor through a combination of these routes. Each subject is assessed by a 3-hour written examination where all questions are compulsory.[4][5]

All 7 core courses are available in English,ChineseandSpanish,with 3 of the elective courses available in English, Spanish and Chinese. Examinations are run in over 400 centres around the world, each April, July-August and December.[6]

ADoctor of Business Administration(DBA) programme was introduced in 2003 and currently has 70 students pursuing their DBA research with guidance from a mentor or supervisor. VariousMaster of Science(MSc) degrees in a number of specialisms are also available at the School.[7]

References

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  1. ^"Professor Keith Lumsden's lecture at the Institute of Political Science, Kiev".
  2. ^History of Heriot-Watt
  3. ^Will Martin (20 May 2017)."The 13 best universities in Britain to study economics".Business Insider.Retrieved15 December2017.
  4. ^"EBS Exam Structure on EBS website".Archived fromthe originalon 4 August 2014.Retrieved4 April2011.
  5. ^"Master of Business Administration, MBA".HW.2016.
  6. ^EBS facts and figures from EBS website
  7. ^DBA course information on EBS website
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