Cranfield School of Management

Business school in the UK

Cranfield School of Management, established in 1967, is a business school that is part of Cranfield University in Bedfordshire, United Kingdom. Cranfield School of Management is triple accredited by the Association of MBAs (AMBA), EQUIS and AACSB.

The Cranfield University campus, which includes the School of Management, is located just outside the village of Cranfield in the Bedfordshire countryside, near Milton Keynes. The School's Management Information Resource Centre offers access to electronic resources and is equipped with a Bloomberg Suite, a series of terminals offering access to live financial services news and data on industries, markets, economic indicators, equities, bonds and derivatives. The school also has a purpose built residential management training centre.

1937: an RAF airbase was set up near Cranfield village in Bedfordshire in 1937 in the build up to the Second World War. 1946: the airbase became the site of a College of Aeronautics to provide education and training for aeronautical engineers. Aspects of management were a feature of Cranfield programmes from the late 1940s. 1953: the Work Study School, which evolved to become Cranfield School of Management, opened. 1964: the first Cranfield MBA programme was run. 1967: Cranfield School of Management was founded. 1969: Cranfield was awarded its Royal Charter giving it university status and the power to confer degrees under the new name of Cranfield Institute of Technology. 1993: Cranfield Institute of Technology changed its name to Cranfield University. 2001: Cranfield SoM gained Triple accreditation, one of the first few to do so in the UK.