Business School

Bangor University

The department

Only 2 hours from Dublin, across the Irish Sea, close to Holyhead, North Wales, Bangor Business School at Bangor University is one of the major European university schools for financial and banking studies offering a full range of disciplines from undergraduate to doctoral level. It is currently the No 1 Business School in the UK for research in Accounting and Finance following the 2008 Research Assessment Exercise. Students are attracted by its reputation for high quality and expertise, particularly in the area of Banking and Financial Services in which Bangor is a leading European centre which houses one of the largest PhD schools of any business school in the UK. Staff research papers and articles are published regularly in leading journals and their books published to a worldwide audience.

In recent years, staff at the Business School have conducted high level consultancy work including major policy studies for many leading organisations like the European Commission, The World Bank and the UK Treasury. Our top researchers and senior staff also teach on Masters programmes, which means that you will receive lecturers by academic staff who are pushing back the frontiers of research.

In addition to the scholastic research for which it is respected worldwide, Bangor Business School's bespoke Management Centre undertakes market-facing research in conjunction with local businesses, as well as providing first-class professional training courses and conference facilities.

London Centre
Bangor Business School is now delivering a limited number of MBA degrees at its centre in the city of London. The London Centre, which is located at Broadgate Tower in the heart of the financial district, enables the School to deliver its cutting edge financial services degrees to individuals who wish to live and study in London.

View the London prospectus.

Postgraduate study

With the exceptional quality of our teaching, our internationally-recognised research, our fantastic location, our high quality accommodation, the exciting range of study and leisure opportunities and our superb staff and students, Bangor Business School has an enviable reputation.

Postgraduate students at Bangor Business School can choose between several types of higher degree programmes and subjects. These include taught MSc, MA and MBA degrees in the fields of Accounting, Banking, Finance, Islamic Banking and Finance, Business, Management, Marketing, Consumer Psychology, Computer Science and Law. Students may also undertake research-led programmes leading to either an MPhil or PhD.

Bangor Business School's teaching and research have not only been highly rated by external agencies, but also by our students and the businesses that employ our former students. We have a proven track record in producing highly skilled and highly employable postgraduates, with the broad range of abilities that employers require from new recruits.

View the Postgraduate prospectus.

Research

In the most recent Research Assessment Exercise (RAE), Accounting and Finance within the Business School has been rated as the best in the UK for the quality of research conducted by its staff, and is widely recognised as a leading European centre for research in Banking. The Financial Studies group as a whole combines expertise across Accounting, Banking, Economics, Finance and Statistics, with a particular emphasis on comparative international research.

In recent years, staff have been involved in high level consultancy work that includes major policy studies for leading organisations such as the European Commission, The World Bank and the UK Treasury.

To help you in your studies the University provides a range of learning resources supported by experienced staff. IT Services provides Computing, Media and Reprographics facilities and services.

Facilities

With the opening of a new £14m centre in May 2008, postgraduate and staff accommodation has been enhanced substantially. The new facility is the result of the strategy to develop world-class postgraduate training facilities within the school and university. Research students have excellent facilities, including doctoral student offices with individual workstations and networked access to financial data. Doctoral students have easy access to supervisors accommodated within the same building.

During recent years, the research activity of the Financial Studies group has been coordinated through Bangor Business School's specialist research institute, the Institute of European Finance.

The Institute supports a dedicated research facility which provides access to on-line research database facilities including EuraIBCA, Bankscope and Thomson Analytics, plus a unique archive of financial data and published accounts relating to international banks and interlisted companies. This research centre and library is supported by a research librarian and financial computing officer. Both staff and students utilise this facility, contributing to a learning environment that is highly conducive to advanced research training.

The extensive banking library provides full coverage of banking systems throughout the world. World Banking Abstracts, prepared in Bangor and published 6 times per year, is compiled from the comprehensive collection of over 500 banking-related journals and other periodicals dealing with the financial sector, and makes a substantial contribution to research income. World Banking Abstracts is edited by our Head of School, Professor Phil Molyneux.

To help you in your studies the University provides a range of learning resources supported by experienced staff. IT Services provides Computing, Media and Reprographics facilities and services including:

•Over 1,150 computers for student use - Some PC rooms are open 24 hours a day

•IT training as part of your degree - e.g. Word processing, spreadsheets, European Computer Driving Licence (Basic and Advanced)

•Blackboard (a commercial Virtual Learning Environment) to contribute to a rich learning experience for students. It allows learning materials to be made available on-line. It is usually arranged into modules or courses and only the students enrolled on a particular module can see the resources.

•Network access in all en-suite accommodation and open-access PC clusters in other university accommodation.

We have an extensive collection of books and journals and many of the journals are available online in full-text format. We also have databases, DVDs and CDs; micro material; a wonderful manuscript collection and a web-based catalogue to access e-books, e-journals, past exam papers, subject guides and other learning resources.