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Background

The Cass Business School (officially Sir John Cass Business School, City of London) is a very highly-ranked, world-class business school located in the City of London, England, and is part of The City University, London. It was formerly called the City University Business School. It is accredited by AMBA and EQUIS and offers Specialist Master's Programmes, MBA (Master of Business Administration) and Executive Programmes. The School is housed in a building located in the City of London, which caters predominantly for postgraduates. It also offers a range of undergraduate courses. The School offers an EMBA China programme in China which is aimed at Chinese students.

Cass was ranked 4th in the international league table of top business schools published by the Social Science Research Network in May 2006. It has also ranked very highly in previous years: the Financial Times Executive MBA Rankings 2005 ranked it as 10th in the world, 2nd in the UK and 3rd in Europe; Cass gained 2nd place overall in UK and 6th in Europe in the Financial Times Survey of European Business Schools 2004. The School has almost 13,000 alumni globally.

Cass recently announced plans for a second campus at Canary Wharf, catering mainly for its Executive Education wing CassExec. The campus will be housed in One Canada Square.

The Cass Business School is divided into three faculties. These faculties are the Faculty of Actuarial Science, Faculty of Finance and the Faculty of Management.

The Dean of the School is Professor David Currie (Lord Currie of Marylebone).

The Facts

Cass Business School (Sir John Cass Business School, City of London) is part of City University. It was formerly known as City University Business School but changed its name in August 2002 following a substantial donation from the Sir John Cass Foundation, a leading educational charity.

Undergraduate Programmes: BSc Actuarial Science, BSc Banking and International Finance, BSc Business Studies, BSc Investment and Financial Risk Management, BSc Management, BSc Risk Analysis and Insurance, BSc Real Estate Finance and Investment, International Foundation Programme, Master of European Business (MEB).

Specialist Masters Programme: Cass is the largest provider in Europe of specialist masters courses geared towards the global financial services industry, with more than 20 programmes on offer ranging from Actuarial Science through to Shipping.

Alumni: about 17,000 alumni in business globally from Berkhamsted to Beijing and from San Francisco to Istanbul. The Cass postgraduate programs draw students from more than 90 countries worldwide (Germany, France, Italy, Turkey, Spain, China, Japan, USA, and so on)

MBA: The Higher Education Funding Council of England and Wales gives Cass's business and management teaching the highest rating of ‘excellent’. The Cass MBA is recognised and accredited by both the Association of MBAs (AMBA) and the European Quality Improvement Scheme (EQUIS).

Executive MBA China: In February 2003 an Executive MBA began in collaboration with SUFE (Shanghai University of Finance and Economics) and sponsored by the Bank of China. This programme is delivered through e-learning and intensive workshops taught by Cass tutors in Shanghai.

The Cass MBA

The Cass MBA is offered through a one year course of full-time development, through a two year part-time Executive MBA, or through a modular Executive MBA. The Cass Executive MBA was ranked 10th in the world by the Financial Times in 2005.

Specialist Masters Courses

Cass Business School offers more than 20 specialist degrees to allow students to focus on different career paths.

Cass portfolio of degrees is unique both in terms of the breadth of the subject coverage and the depth of subject expertise. They cover a wide spectrum of specialist subject areas ranging from Banking (retail, central and investment) Asset Management and Quantitative finance, Property valuation and Investment and Management in financial services and the charity sector.

A key feature of all courses is that they set the theory of finance, management and the specialist discipline in a wider practical perspective, through the use of case studies, state of the art technology and visiting staff who are experienced and respected practitioners.

Specialist masters courses within the Programme include:

Charity courses

Research Centres

Research centres at Cass Business School include:

Alumni

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