Engaging with top graduate employers
Lancaster University Management School has excellent relationships with many of the UK's leading employers. This videos explores some of the ways in which we work with top employers to offer the best graduate recruitment opportunities to students.
Universities minister speaks at Engage HEI 2012
The Minister of State for Universities and Science, David Willetts, gave the opening speech at the Engage HEI Conference 2012, organised by Lancaster's Institute for Entrepreneurship and Enterprise Development.
He called for universities to increase their income from businesses by 10% over the next three years, and said more universities should offer placements to help furnish graduates with employability skills.
A World-Ranked Business School
LUMS is a triple-accredited, world-ranked management school, consistently among the UK's top five. Lancaster is among the few leading business schools to combine excellence in research with a student-centred campus, and a full spectrum of undergraduate, postgraduate, PhD and executive programmes. Leadership programmes for multinational companies and outreach provision for SMEs are of equal importance to our mission.
International
LUMS recruits students from all over the world, and we have partnerships with organisations across the globe.
Undergraduate Study
Lancaster's business and management students are among the most satisfied in the UK - according to recent national student surveys. Discover what our innovative and flexible degrees, expert teaching and great campus environment can do for you.
Postgraduate Study
Leadership and Executive Development
LUMS specialises in customising solutions to organisations' needs for leadership and executive development in all sectors. Global leadership programmes include the Advanced Leadership Programme and International Masters in Practicing Management (IMPM) with guru Henry Mintzberg and our international partners.
Business Support
LUMS’ business support has assisted over 1300 SMEs – both private sector and social enterprises – through the Institute for Entrepreneurship and Enterprise Development (IEED).
IEED offers comprehensive support – constantly developed to meet the changing demands of this sector.
Latest News
Meet the Employer 2012
Published 2 February 2012
The Management School's Meet the Employer Event, held on 1 February 2012, was our biggest yet. The annual event, which has been running since 2007, brought together representatives from 27 organisations with participants including graduate recruiters, Lancaster alumni, and LUMS students on placement.
Exchanging perspectives: Jordanian Global MBA students visit Lancaster
Published 1 February 2012
Four students from Jordan, participants on Lancaster's Global MBA programme, visited the Lancaster campus recently. For the Jordanians it was a great opportunity to share in the Lancaster campus experience.
FT ranks Lancaster PhD 7th in world
Published 30 January 2012
In the 2012 Financial Times ranking of the top global MBA programmes, Lancaster is ranked 7th in the world and 2nd in Europe in the 'FT Doctoral Rank'.
Lancaster MBA graduate appointed CEO of AXA Germany
Published 20 January 2012
Thomas Buberl, who gained his MBA from Lancaster University Management School in 1998, has been appointed Chief Executive Officer of AXA Germany.
Research
Research is at the heart of life at Lancaster. Three quarters of the Management School’s research activity is world leading or internationally excellent in terms of originality, significance and rigour, and virtually all its research (95%) is of international standing.
Latest Working Papers
Gefang Deborah, 2012, 'Bayesian Doubly Adaptive Elastic-Net Lasso for VAR Shrinkage',
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Soopramanien D G R, Worthington D J and Minussi J, 2012, 'Comparing modelling approaches for corporate credit scoring using multi-level categories of risk',
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The Work Foundation
In October 2010, Lancaster University acquired The Work Foundation, forming a powerful new alliance to enhance their research impact.
