UCL School of Management

Business school of University College London

UCL School of Management

UCL School of Management is based at the One Canada Square building in Canary Wharf, London

Type| Business school
Established| 2007

Academic affiliation

| University College London
Director| Davide Ravasi
Location|

London

United Kingdom

Campus| Urban
Website| mgmt.ucl.ac.uk

The UCL School of Management is the business school of University College London (UCL). The School offers undergraduate, postgraduate, PhD and executive programmes in management, entrepreneurship, business analytics, business information systems, and finance.

## History

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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.[1] 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 and the department initially offered a master's degree in Technology Entrepreneurship and an undergraduate degree in Information Management for Business.[citation needed] 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.

In July 2021, Professor Davide Ravasi was confirmed as the next director of the UCL School of Management with immediate effect for a period of five years in the first instance.

## Location

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UCL School of Management is based on the 38th and 50th floors of One Canada Square building in Canary Wharf, London View of Central London from UCL School of Management

The UCL School of Management is located on Levels 38 and 50 (~194m up) of One Canada Square in Canary Wharf financial estate in the London Docklands. The school is located in the same building as Level39, Europe’s biggest financial technology accelerator.[2] The school, working in association with UCL Advances, is closely linked to East London Tech City, the third-largest technology startup cluster in the world.[3] The school also has a base on the main UCL campus in Bloomsbury, where the School's undergraduate programmes are based.

## Research

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The UCL School of Management currently comprises 25 research faculty and 50 teaching faculty that focus in areas of Organizational Behavior, Innovation, Entrepreneurship, Strategy, Operations Management, Marketing and Analytics. 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.[4] Martin Kilduff is the founding Deputy Director of Research of the school.

UCL departments in closely related fields of computer science,[5] economics,[6] planning[7] and psychology,[8] 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 (Panel A and B) and social sciences (Panel C) among UK universities and it ranked at the top for overall research strength.[9]

### History of management research at UCL

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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 who founded the world's first statistics department at UCL in 1911, is regarded as the father of modern statistics.[10] Pearson's mentor and polymath, Francis Galton, who founded the erstwhile Galton Laboratory of UCL, is considered to be the father of psychometrics and differential psychology. 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 and John Maynard Smith associated with the lab. In the field of experimental psychology, several faculty members of UCL's Faculty of Brain Sciences like James Sully, Charles Spearman and Tim Shallice made noted contributions to advance the field.[11] The Bartlett, 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.[12] Moreover, 1922 Nobel Laureate and faculty member of UCL Medical School, Archibald Hill is considered to be one of the founders of Operations Research.

## Reputation and ranking

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Its master's program in management has around twenty applications made for every place.[13][14] The school's master's program in technology entrepreneurship has spun out several successful startups.[15][16]

## Student life

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The main UCL Union building situated on Gordon Street

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, 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 and support to small businesses through programs like Goldman Sachs 10,000 Small Businesses. UCL Advances, along with UCL Business 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) and consulting.

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. 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 students.[citation needed]

## References

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1. ^ "UCL launches centre for academic entrepreneurship". The Guardian. 20 June 2007. Retrieved 2 August 2015.
2. ^ "UCL welcomed at Canary Wharf business estate". Gulf Times. 3 August 2015. Retrieved 3 August 2015.
3. ^ "Silicon Roundabout is still best address for start-ups". The Times. 9 June 2014. Retrieved 3 August 2015.
4. ^ "REF2014: Business and Management Studies". Retrieved 2 August 2015.
5. ^ "REF2014: UCL Computer Science ranked first". UCL Department of Computer Science. Retrieved 4 August 2015.
6. ^ "UCL Economics Ranked 1 in REF 2014". UCL Department of Economics. Retrieved 4 August 2015.
7. ^ "The Bartlett confirmed as built environment research heavyweight in the Government's Research Excellence Framework". The Bartlett. Retrieved 4 August 2015. "The Bartlett has the most world-leading research in its field in the UK, according to the Government's Research Excellence Framework (REF2014)."
8. ^ "UCL Rated #1 for Research in Psychology, Psychiatry and Neuroscience". UCL Psychology and Language Sciences. Retrieved 4 August 2015.
9. ^ "UCL rated top UK university by research strength in the REF2014". University College London. Retrieved 4 August 2015.
10. ^ "They also served". The Economist. 20 December 2014. Retrieved 6 August 2015.
11. ^ "History of UCL Experimental Psychology". Archived from the original on 9 August 2020. Retrieved 2 August 2015.
12. ^ "History of Bartlett School of Planning".
13. ^ "UCL launches School of Management in the heart of London". Financial Times. 30 July 2015. Retrieved 2 August 2015.
14. ^ "UCL School of Management Launched with Aim of Joining UK Elite". Top MBA. 31 July 2015. Retrieved 2 August 2015. "It [Masters in Management] is said to have attracted 3,000 applicants for an intake of around 150 in 2014 – at 5%, that's a highly selective acceptance rate in itself."
15. ^ "Master's course give graduates a degree of entrepreneurship". The Guardian. 5 March 2013. Retrieved 2 August 2015.
16. ^ Engel, Jerome (26 September 2014). Global Clusters of Innovation: Entrepreneurial Engines of Economic Growth around the World. Edward Elgar Publishing. p. 171\. ISBN 9781783470839.

## External links

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* Official website

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Academic activities

| Faculties, schools
and groupings|

* Faculty of Arts and Humanities (Slade School of Fine Art)
* Faculty of Brain Sciences
* Division of Psychology and Language Sciences
* Faculty of the Built Environment (The Bartlett)
* Faculty of Engineering Sciences
* School of Energy and Resources
* School of Management
* Faculty of Laws
* Faculty of Life Sciences
* School of Pharmacy
* Faculty of Mathematical and Physical Sciences
* Faculty of Medical Sciences
* Medical School
* Faculty of Population Health Sciences
* Faculty of Social and Historical Sciences
* School of Slavonic and East European Studies
* Institute of Education
* Neuroscience

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Centres and
departments|

* Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis
* Centre for the Study of the Legacies of British Slave-ownership
* Centre for Digital Humanities
* Centre for the History of Medicine
* Centre for Neuroimaging
* The Constitution Unit
* Department of Information Studies
* Department of Philosophy
* Department of Science and Technology Studies
* Department of Space and Climate Physics
* EPPI-Centre
* London Centre for Nanotechnology
* London Knowledge Lab
* Slade Centre for Electronic Media in Fine Art
* Urban Laboratory

Institutes and
laboratories|

* Ear Institute
* Eastman Dental Institute
* Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health
* Institute of Archaeology
* Institute for Global Health
* Institute of Jewish Studies
* Institute of Making
* Institute of Neurology
* Institute of Ophthalmology
* Institute of Security and Crime Science
* Pedestrian Accessibility and Movement Environment Laboratory

Other|

* Edwards Professor of Egyptian Archaeology and Philology
* Grote Professor of the Philosophy of Mind and Logic
* Pender Chair
* Papers from the Institute of Archaeology
* Prize Lecture in Life and Medical Sciences
* Public Archaeology
* Quain Professor
* Ramsay Memorial Professor of Chemical Engineering
* Slade Professor of Fine Art
* Transcribe Bentham

University

| Campus|

* Bloomsbury
* Bloomsbury Theatre
* Church of Christ the King
* Euston Road
* Gordon Square
* Gower Street
* Gray's Inn Road
* Halls of residence
* Here East
* Holmbury St Mary
* Main Building
* Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology
* Queen Square
* Somers Town
* Tavistock Square
* Tottenham Court Road
* UCL Observatory
* UCL East
* Woburn Square

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People|

* List of notable people
* Michael Spence (Provost)

Student life|

* UCL Boat Club
* The Cheese Grater
* University College Opera
* Pi Media
* Rare FM
* Royal Free, University College and Middlesex Medical Students RFC
* Students' Union UCL

Other|

* Citrus Saturday
* UCL Business
* Filming at UCL
* History
* Rivalry with King's College London
* Third-oldest university in England

Affiliates

| Medical|

* Francis Crick Institute
* Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Foundation Trust
* Great Ormond Street Hospital
* Moorfields Eye Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
* Moorfields Eye Hospital
* Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust
* The Royal Free Hospital
* Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital
* UCLH/UCL Biomedical Research Centre
* UCL Partners
* University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
* Eastman Dental Hospital
* Hospital for Tropical Diseases
* National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery
* Royal London Hospital for Integrated Medicine
* Royal National Throat, Nose and Ear Hospital
* UCH Macmillan Cancer Centre
* University College Hospital
* University College Hospital at Westmoreland Street
* Whittington Hospital

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Other|

* Alan Turing Institute
* Anna Freud Centre
* Association of Commonwealth Universities
* European Network for Training Economic Research
* Golden triangle
* Institute of Advanced Legal Studies
* League of European Research Universities
* Russell Group
* Science and Engineering South
* Thomas Young Centre
* UCL Academy
* University College School
* University of London

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England|

| London|

* Bayes (City)
* Bloomsbury Institute
* ESCP Europe
* European Business School London
* European College of Business and Management
* European School of Economics
* Hult International Business School
* Imperial
* Kaplan
* King's Business School
* Kingston
* LBS
* London School of Business and Finance
* UCL
* Westminster

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Other|

* Anglia Ruskin
* Ashridge
* Aston
* Bath
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* Birmingham City
* Bradford
* Brighton
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* Durham
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* Kent
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* Leeds
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* Liverpool
* Magna Carta College
* Alliance (Manchester)
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* Nottingham
* Nottingham Trent
* Saïd (Oxford)
* Salford
* Sheffield
* Sussex
* Warwick

Scotland|

* Edinburgh
* Heriot-Watt
* Glasgow
* Strathclyde

Wales|

* Bangor
* Cardiff
* South Wales
* Swansea

Isle of Man|

* Isle of Man International Business School

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