We are part of an elite group of global business schools who hold the gold standard of ‘triple-crown’ accreditation from AACSB (Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business), AMBA (Association of MBAs) and EQUIS (European Quality Improvement System).

In the top 100 in the world for Business and Management studies in the QS World University Rankings 2019 and 11th in the UK.

Employed Aston Business School graduates earn £9,000 (34%) more than the UK average five years after graduating (Longitudinal Education Outcomes, 2018).

We achieved the maximum Gold rating in the 2017 Teaching Excellence Framework and 91% Overall Student Satisfaction in the 2018 National Student Survey. We achieved a five star rating from QS, the university rating system, for excellence in teaching, employability, innovation, facilities, inclusiveness, and internationalisation (2019).

Our staff have established a reputation for developing innovative teaching methods, pioneering the use of gamification and creating games and simulations to make our students’ learning experience more rewarding. As well as extensive industry experience, some of our staff are responsible for writing the key textbooks used.

Our postgraduate students have access to the benefit of a professional development programme known as Global Advantage. We’ll focus your thinking and actions on more elusive social and personal aspects of business and offer you opportunities to work or study abroad.

Our students experience real life business activities through initiatives such as a module partnership, delivering our in-house business and law clinics, working with charities such as The Prince’s Trust and working with organisations of all shapes and sizes from start-up micro businesses to multinationals.

With our excellent links and close proximity to Birmingham’s business district, we are an ideal choice for executive education and various other services, such as placements, apprenticeships and graduate recruitment. We have been the awarded the Small Business Charter in recognition of our work with small businesses.

We are the UKs second largest city and located in the middle of the country offering excellent travel links to cities in Europe and great flight connections to the rest of the world. There are many interesting places within easy access to visit with London an hour and a half away by train and Stratford-Upon-Avon – home of Shakespeare and Warwick Castle both less than an hour away.

100% of our business research achieved the highest rankings of 3* or 4* and was judged to have delivered ‘outstanding’ or ‘very considerable’ external impact in the latest Research Excellence Framework (REF, 2014).