Strathclyde Business SchoolAccreditations & rankings

Triple accreditation

Strathclyde Business School has held triple accreditation from the three main business school accreditation bodies – AMBA, EQUIS and AACSB – since 2004. We were the first business school in Scotland to achieve triple accreditation.

• AACSB - the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business, based in the USA
• EQUIS - the quality assurance scheme run by the European Foundation for Management Development (efmd), based in Brussels
• AMBA - the Association of MBAs, based in the UK

Department and programme accreditations

• Department of Work, Employment & Organisation is a Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD) Approved Centre
• Department of Accounting & Finance programmes are accredited by Chartered Institute of Management Accountants (CIMA), Institute of Chartered Accountants (ICAS), Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA), CFA Institute University Recognition Program
• Our Hospitality & Tourism degrees are accredited by the Institute of Hospitality

External recognition and miletsones

• First business school in Scotland to achieve triple accreditation from the three main business school accreditation bodies – AMBA, AACSB and EQUIS (since 2004)
• First business school in Scotland to be awarded the Small Business Charter Award
• Featured in top 90 European Business Schools (Financial Times, 2020)
• Europe's first university faculty to be awarded a licence to operate an MBA in the UAE
• Ranked 1^st in Scotland and top 10 in UK for business school research by Times Higher Education (based on REF2014)
• First university to be awarded the ‘UK University of the Year’ award by Times Higher Education (THE) twice – in 2012 and 2019
• ‘Scottish University of the Year’ 2020 by The Sunday Times Good University Guide
• 5-star QS-rate university (2017-20)

Programme rankings

• MSc Finance has consistently featured in Financial Times Masters in Finance Pre-Experience ranking for nine years
• MSc Business & Management has consistently featured in the Financial Times Global Masters in Management ranking for over ten years
• Our full-time MBA has repeatedly featured in some of the most prestigious and well established international rankings (Financial Times Global MBA, Economist Full-Time MBA)
• Our executive MBA has repeatedly featured in some of the most prestigious and well established international rankings (Financial Times Executive MBA, Economist Executive MBA)
• Our full-time MBA has also performed well in more recently established rankings (QS Global MBA, América Economía Global MBA, Corporate Knights Better World MBA)

Subject rankings

Complete University Guide 2021

• Marketing – 1^st in Scotland; 3^rd in UK
• Accounting & Finance – 2^nd in UK
• Economics – 3^rd in Scotland; 8^th in UK
• Business & Management Studies – 2^nd in Scotland; 8^th in UK

The Guardian Best UK Universities 2021

• Business, Management & Marketing – 2^nd in Scotland; 10^th in UK
• Economics – 2^nd in Scotland; 4^th in UK
• Accounting & Finance – 2^nd in Scotland; 4^th in UK  
• Hospitality, Event Management & Tourism –  4^th in Scotland; 20^th in UK

Sunday Times Good University Guide 2021

• Accounting & Finance – 1^st in UK
• Economics – 5^th in UK
• Business Studies – 7^th in the UK