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Cass Business School
Motto Cass means business
Established 1966
Type Undergraduate, Postgraduate, Executive Education, Research
Dean Richard Gillingwater
Admin. staff ca 500
Students 3495
Undergraduates 1300
Postgraduates 1300
Doctoral students 100
Location London, United Kingdom
Campus Urban
Affiliations The Association of MBAs (AMBA) The European Quality Improvement Scheme (EQUIS) Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB) City University London
Website www.cass.city.ac.uk

Cass Business School (short for the Sir John Cass Business School) is the business school of City University London. Established in 1967 as the City University Business School (CUBS), the school changed its name in August 2002 following a donation from the Sir John Cass Foundation,[1] an educational charity based in the City of London.

The school is divided into three faculties: the Faculty of Actuarial Science and Insurance, the Faculty of Finance and the Faculty of Management.[2] It awards BSc (Hons), MSc, MBA and PhD degrees and is accredited by the Association of MBAs (AMBA) in the United Kingdom,[3] the European Quality Improvement Scheme (EQUIS) in Europe,[4] and the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB) in the United States.[5] Cass is the largest European provider of specialist MSc degrees in financial services. The school’s Alumni Association has more than 31,000 members in 154 countries.[6]

Cass is located close to the centre of London's financial and commercial district, the City of London.[7] The school's stated aim is to be "the intellectual hub of the City" by forging links with financial institutions and multinational corporations as well as start-up businesses.[8]

The Dean of Cass Business School is Richard Gillingwater, CBE.

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[edit] History

The City of London University Business School was founded in 1966 as part of City University, which was founded in 1894. The school’s MSc in Administrative Sciences began in 1967 and became the MBA in 1979.

In 2002 the school moved to new premises and changed its name as part of a strategy formed by Lord Currie, 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 Barbican Centre development and did not have its own front door. Half of the £40 million funding for the new building came from the reserves of City University. The school also received a one-off gift from Sir John Cass’s Foundation.[9]

The school changed its name to reflect the support of the Foundation, which was founded in 1748 to educate children in the City of London. Sir John Cass, whose bequest formed the basis of the Foundation’s funds, was a former Sheriff of the City of London and Member of Parliament for the City.

Currie’s aim was to capitalise on the school’s links with the City of London, whose municipal Corporation had helped establish City University Business School in the 1960s. As well as investing in new premises and programmes, such as an Executive MBA in Shanghai, he introduced performance-related salaries to attract additional staff to Cass[10]

Currie stepped down as Dean after almost seven years in 2007 and handed over to Richard Gillingwater, who joined from the UK Shareholder Executive (UKSE), where he was Chief Executive and then Chairman.

Before joining UKSE, Gillingwater had a long career in the City, including as Chairman of European investment banking for CSFB (now Credit Suisse)[citation needed]. In this role he acted as an adviser to the UK government on many projects[citation needed], which ultimately led to his appointment at UKSE. He was awarded a CBE in the Queen’s Birthday Honours List 2008 in recognition of his services to the financial services industry[citation needed].

[edit] Rankings and reputation

School rankings (overall)
Worldwide MBA
América Economía[11] N/a
CNN Expansion[12] N/a
Economist[13] 37
Financial Times[14] 32

Cass Business School is the business faculty of City University London that has recently been ranked 356th overall and 273rd in social sciences in the world by the QS World University Rankings.[15] Cass Business School is considered one of the top 200 "internationally known" business schools in the world; 4 palmes rating(out of five), 13th in the UK,[16] was given by Eduniversal, arguably the most comprehensive rating agency of business education[17] because of the peer-assessment[18].

In the Financial Times European Business Education Rankings, Cass was ranked 4th best business school in the UK (15th in Europe).[19] Additionally, the FT ranked the Full-Time MBA 32nd in the world for 2011.[20] The Executive MBA was ranked 3rd in the UK, 7th in Europe and 29th in the world by the FT for 2011.[21]The FT ranked the MSc in Management 3rd in the UK and 16th in Europe.[22]

Cass Business School's full-time MBA was ranked 19th in Europe by Bloomberg Businessweek.[23], 9th in the world by Forbes's Non-USA 1 Year MBA,[24] 37th in the world by The Economist[25], but not included in the ranking tables by CNN Expansion's top 60 MBAs [26], Business Insider's top 50 MBAs[27] or América Economía's top 60 MBAs[28].

City University London retained its positions as 1st in London and 3rd in the UK for undergraduate education in business and management studies in The Guardian's Good University Guide 2012.[29]

Cass is one of 14 UK business schools to have official recognition from the CFA.[30] The five CFA-approved courses are: MSc in Finance, MSc in Banking and International Finance, MSc in International Accounting and Finance, MSc in Investment Management, and MSc in Finance and Investment (part-time).

Cass is one of business schools that have been designated a Securities & Investment Institute (SII) Centre of Excellence. The Centre of Excellence designation means that Cass graduates who complete the MSc in Finance or the MSc in Investment Management will also be eligible for the award of the SII Diploma (which will become formally known as the ‘SII Masters’ programme) without having to take any of the SII exams. The SII Diploma has no direct academic equivalent.[31]


[edit] Specialist masters courses

Cass is currently the largest provider in Europe of specialist masters courses[1] geared towards the global financial services industry. With more than 18 programmes including Investment Management, Banking and International Finance, Quantitative finance, Supply Chain Management, Energy & Finance, Property valuation, Mathematical Trading, Real Estate, International Accounting & Finance, Finance & Investment, and Real Estate Investment.

[edit] Cass MBA

The Cass MBA is offered full-time through a one year course, or through two years part-time Executive MBA, or two years through the modular Executive MBA.

The Higher Education Funding Council for England gives Cass's business and management teaching the highest rating of ‘excellent’.

In September 2007 Cass Business School started EMBA in collaboration with DIFC (Dubai International Financial Centre). This programme is delivered through e-learning and work shops taught by visiting Cass academia once in a month over long weekends.

[edit] International partners

Membership of the Alliance of Management Schools in European Capitals (AMSEC) provides opportunities for research collaboration with fellow schools in Paris, Brussels, Rome, Berlin, Madrid and Oslo

The school works with the following international partners,[32] these are:

(* Denotes members of Alliance of Management Schools in European Capitals (AMSEC), of which Cass is a founding member)

[edit] Research

Cass Business School considers itself to be one of the worldclass research institutions.[33] Finance research is ranked 3rd in Europe.[34] Meziane Lasfer, professor of finance at Cass Business School,[35] is ranked 20th in the league table of Europe's top finance researchers. [36]

Cass Business School is ranked 32nd by RePEc, Research Papers in Economics, Top 25% Financial Economics and Finance Departments, as of December 2011.[37]

The 2008 Research Assessment Exercise positions City University London 27th in the UK in business and management.[38] Cass Business School states that "based on the power' output of research from the School," it is positioned 9th by the same 2008 Research Assessment Exercise.[39]

Research centres at Cass Business School include:

  • The Actuarial Research Centre
  • Alternative Investments Research Centre (AIRC)
  • Asian Business Research Centre
  • Centre for Banking Research
  • Centre for Charity Effectiveness
  • Centre for Econometric Analysis (CEA@Cass)
  • Centre for Financial Regulation and Crime (CFRC)
  • Centre for Leadership, Learning and Change (CLLC)
  • Centre for New Technologies, Innovation and Entrepreneurship (CENTIVE)
  • Centre for Research in Corporate Governance
  • Centre for Research on European Financial Markets and Institutions (CREFMI)
  • Emerging Markets Group (EMG)
  • Film Business Research Centre
  • International Centre for Shipping, Trade and Finance
  • Mergers and Acquisitions Research Center (MARC) - sponsored by Credit Suisse, E&Y and MergerMarket.[2]
  • Pensions Institute
  • Private Equity and Venture Capital Research Centre (PERC)
  • Research Centre for Real Estate Finance
  • Risk Institute

[edit] Notable alumni

[edit] References

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  38. ^ "RAE (Education),Business and management studies (Education subject),Research (Higher education),Higher education (Universities etc.),Education". The Guardian (London). 18 December 2008. http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/table/2008/dec/18/rae-2008-business-and-management-studies. 
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