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Business school of the University of Manchester in Manchester, England

Alliance Manchester Business School (Alliance MBS) is the business school of the University of Manchester in Manchester, England. It is one of the oldest business schools in the UK, and provides education to undergraduates, postgraduates and executives. According to the Financial Times 2018 Global MBA Rankings, its MBA programme is ranked 10th in Europe, 36th in the world and 4th in the UK. Its "MSc Business Analytics" programme ranked 6th in the world and 2nd in the UK; "MSc International Business and Management" 20th and "MSc Finance" 18th, as per the QS World University Ranking 2018. It includes departments from both the former Victoria University of Manchester's Faculty of Business Administration, and from UMIST.

The foundation of the School dates back to 1918, when the Manchester Municipal College of Technology (as UMIST was then called) pioneered academic training in management, with the formation of a Department of Industrial Administration funded by an endowment from asbestos magnate Sir Samuel Turner. The London School of Economics and Manchester Municipal College of Technology were the first higher education institutions in the UK to follow the US trend of offering postgraduate management programmes in the 1930s. The Department of Industrial Administration was heavily influenced by management science pioneer Charles Garonne Renold. The Robbins Report in the 1960s recommended that two national centres for postgraduate business education be created, and the Franks Report subsequently suggested that one would be in London centred on the University of London (this would become the London Business School), and one in Manchester centred on the (Victoria) University and UMIST. These became the first two University Grants Committee funded business schools. The first director of the business school was appointed in 1965. Grigor McClelland was the first research fellow at Balliol College, Oxford in Management Studies, the chairman of the grocery chain Laws Stores and founder of the Journal of Management Studies. McClelland introduced the Manchester Experiment, which would become known as the Manchester Method. The MBA course started in 1967. From 1968, the Business school came under Victoria University of Manchester's Faculty of Business Administration, that Grigor McClelland having been appointed Dean of the Faculty in 1967. In 1971, Manchester Business School and UMIST's Manchester School of Management were both among the twelve founder members of the Conference of University Management Schools (now the Chattered Association of Business Schools). The "new" Manchester Business School was formed in 2004 as a result of the merger of UMIST's Manchester School of Management, the Institute of Innovation Research (IoIR), the Victoria University of Manchester's School of Accounting and Finance, and the 1965 created Manchester Business School. Prior to merger the constituent parts of new MBS formed, from 1994, and occupied nearby buildings either side of Oxford Road On 21 September 2015, Manchester Business School changed its name to Alliance Manchester Business School, following a donation from Lord Alliance of Manchester and his fellow Trustees of the Alliance Family Foundation.

The school comes under the Faculty of Humanities of the University of Manchester. as of 2008 with over 200 teaching staff it is the largest campus based business school in the country, and has an international student composition as three quarters of its student body is from outside the UK. Manchester offers PhD (full and part time); D. B. A – Doctor of Business Administration (executive part time); M. B. A – Master of Business Administration (full time, executive part time, and blended learning); several specialist masters programmes as well as undergraduate degrees. Entry requirements for undergraduate and postgraduate degrees are both highly competitive. For popular undergraduate courses such as Accounting and/or Finance, 70 places are available for approximately 1600 applicants. As of 2006, a minimum work experience of 3 years and a good GMAT is required for admission to the MBA programs. The 18 months full time MBA program is known for its "Manchester Method" which puts emphasis on learning by doing throughout the entire duration of the programme, including significant real life projects. In addition, the school offers the so called "Manchester Gold" programme, a mentoring scheme to provide students with opportunities to meet regularly with professionals from a wide variety of sectors and industries. Last year's mentors, for example, came from high profile companies such as Morgan Stanley, PricewaterhouseCoopers, Royal Dutch Shell Group, IBM Global Services and GlaxoSmithKline among many others. As of 2013, the Head of MBS is Professor Fiona Devine OBE. The school's advisory board is chaired by businessman Tony De Nunzio.

Among the bodies validating MBS programmes, the British Psychological Society validates its Organizational Psychology masters, and the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development its HRM MSc degree. Its MBA is one of a select band worldwide which receive triple accreditation by AACSB International, AMBA and EQUIS. It is also a program partner of the CFA Institute. The Financial Times Global MBA Ranking 2017 survey ranks MBS MBA 3rd in the UK, 10th in Europe and 30th in the world. In 2011, the school was ranked among the top 30 business schools in the world for its MBA program, and 1st in the world for its doctoral program (both PhD and D. B. A). It is placed 11th in Europe and 4th in the UK, while being 6th in Europe for percentage salary increase of its graduates. In the Which MBA? survey MBS reached the 5th place in the UK, 8th in Europe and 30th in the world. The MBA Career Guide of international MBA recruiters placed Manchester 2nd in the UK, 7th in Europe and 15th in the world. In the 2009 QS Global 200 Business Schools Report the school was ranked 14th in Europe. In the UK government Research Assessment Exercise 2008 (RAE 2008), MBS is ranked first of all UK universities for research power in Business and Management and Finance and Accounting. The Financial Times ranks MBS PhD programme 1st in the World (Jan 2012). Furthermore, Manchester was selected by UK Border Agency as part of the Highly Skilled Migrant Programme which gives MBA graduates from the world's top 50 business schools extra qualification points and helps them meet visa requirements to work in the UK. The Quality Assurance Agency for Higher Education (QAA) assessed the school's teaching quality with 24 out of 24 points.

MBS offers a unique part time option for Master of Business Administration students called the Part time Global MBA. This programme provides online instruction along with the ability for students to study at any of six global centres, while receiving the same degree. Students are able to take classes in Manchester, Brazil, China, Hong Kong, Singapore and Dubai. Students spend one week per semester attending workshops at one of the seven centres, and ten nights' hotel stay is included with the cost of tuition. Each centre has its own team of staff and facilities and all of them together support over 3,500 students from more than 100 countries around the world. The same faculty members teach across the centres representing forty different countries.

In 2016, AMBS partnered with the Kelley School of Business at the Indiana University Bloomington to offer the Kelley Manchester Global MBA. This joint program allows a student to earn an MBA diploma from both universities.

As part of the 50th anniversary of the Manchester Business School in 2015, the annual Grigor McClelland lecture series was launched to explore the interaction between business, education and social responsibility. It was named in honour of the first director, as this was an area that he had pioneered.