International recognition and rankings
Kingston Business School is among the most successful business schools in the United Kingdom and is consistently rated among the top business schools in London. On this page you will find information about our league table rankings and our key achievements in London and beyond.
International recognition
- Association of MBAs (AMBA) accredited
- First and still one of only 3 business schools with triple Association of MBAs (AMBA) accreditation (MBA, Masters in Business Management and DBA).
- Visit our accreditations webpage for information on our professional body accreditations.
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EPAS accredited
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We are one of only 24 Business Schools in the UK with accreditation from the European Foundation for Management Development (EFMD) and one of only 43 worldwide with the EFMD's EPAS accreditation.
We are the only Business School in the world with EPAS accreditation at Bachelor, Master and Doctoral level.
Visit our accreditations webpage for information on our professional body accreditations.
League table rankings
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Kingston University including Kingston Business School is paving the way when it comes to entrepreneurial graduates, according to the latest higher education-business and community interaction survey.
The annual survey shows that Kingston has the highest number of graduate start-up companies of any Higher Education Institutions (HEI) in the UK for 2010/11.
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Top starting salaries for Kingston Business School graduates
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Kingston Business School graduates in business studies and accounting consistently rank highly among Unistats' compilation of UK university graduates' starting salaries.
Our accounting graduates receive the 6th highest starting salary and business studies graduates the 15th highest in UK.
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Kingston Business School’s MBA course in Moscow has been named amongst the best MBAs in Russia in a prestigious league table. The programme was ranked 2nd among 20 Russian MBAs in a league table produced by Russian national business newspaper ‘Kommersant’.
Kingston’s MBA in Moscow has previously been ranked the number 1 MBA in Russia by the newspaper ‘Izvestia’, and by the business journal ‘Company Secrets’.
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Kingston University including Kingston Business School has been named in a league table of the 30 "highest-value" universities, following new research compiled by international consultants The Parthenon Group.
The research suggests that elite institutions do not necessarily attain the best outcome in terms of graduate salaries. In fact, some modern universities are better than a number of research-intensive institutions at 'adding value' for students by consistently helping them to get well-paid jobs. Outside of the 15-or-so most elite institutions in the country, a university's location and subject mix have more of an influence on starting salaries than perceived prestige.
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The Research Assessment Exercise (RAE) 2008
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The Research Assessment Exercise (RAE) 2008 ranks Kingston Business School the highest rated among the modern University Business Schools in UK.
Kingston Business School is the highest rated modern University Business School, with 90 per cent of submissions identified as being of internationally recognised standard and 10 per cent of the research submitted classified as world leading.
The RAE, or Research Assessment Exercise is an exercise undertaken approximately every five years. It evaluates the quality of research in universities in the UK. It is the only Government-sponsored ranking of research quality in UK universities.
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Our Masters courses rank amongst the best in the world
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Kingston Business School feature in a ranking of the world's best Masters and MBA programmes. The Eduniversal Masters Ranking 2012-2013 ranks mainly business and management-related programmes.
- MSc International Business Management - number 50 in the ‘International Management' ranking for Western Europe
- MA Human Resource Management (top up) - number 39 in the ‘Human Resource Management' ranking for Western Europe
- MA in Creative Industries and the Creative Economy - number 31 globally in the ‘Arts and Cultural Management' category
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The Complete University Guide Rankings 2014
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The Complete University Guide Rankings 2014 ranks Kingston Business School 2nd among the modern university business schools in London for Business Studies..
The Complete University Guide is an independently published ranking produced in association with The Independent newspaper. It uses nine criteria and statistical techniques to give a total score for each university.
The criteria include: student satisfaction, research assessment/quality, entry standards, ratio of students to staff, spendng on academic services, spending on facilities, the number of good honours awarded, graduate prospects and completion rate of degrees.
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The Guardian University Guide 2013
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The Guardian University Guide 2013 ranks Kingston Business School in the top 10 of university business schools in London with a ranking of 10th out of 18 in London for business and management studies..
The Guardian University Guide comprehensively ranks all of Britain’s universities according to eight statistical measures. Measures focus on both input, eg expenditure by the university on its students, and output, eg a graduate's probability of finding a graduate-level job.
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The Times Good University Guide 2012 (subscription required to access The Times website)
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The Times Good University Guide 2012 ranks Kingston Business School 6th in London for Accounting and Finance and 11th in London for Business Studies.
The Times Good University Guide 2012 ranking uses eight important measures of university activity - student satisfaction, research quality, entry standards, student-staff ratio, services and facilities spend, completion, good honours and graduate prospects
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Eduniversal Ranking gives Kingston Business School a 3 Palmes (Excellent Business School) rating and ranks us 6th in London in an annual ranking of business schools and universities in over 150 countries by higher education rating agency EdUniversal.
The rankings were determined from the responses of the Deans and Directors of the 1,000 best academic institutions to the question: "Which business school(s) would you recommend to anyone wishing to study in this country?"
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- The Complete University Guide Rankings 2012 ranks Kingston Business School 6th out of 18 in London for Business and Management research excellence.
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Kingston University including Kingston Business School received the "First Class Award" for our ranking of 3rd in London.
The Green League measures the environmental performance of the UK’s higher education institutions. Kingston University received the Green League 2012 First Class Award with an impressive ranking of 3rd in London for our green credentials.
