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London Business School

London Business School (LBS) is a business school and a member institution of the University of London. LBS was established in 1964 and awards post-graduate degrees (master's degrees in management and finance, MBAs and PhDs).

London Business School
MottoTo have a profound impact on the way the world does business
TypePublic business school
Established1964; 62 years ago (1964)
AccreditationAACSB, EQUIS, AMBA
Academic affiliation
University of London
Endowment£78.5 million (2025)[1]
Budget£202.0 million (2024/25)[1]
DeanSergei Guriev
Academic staff
115 (2024/25)[2]
Students2,275 (2024/25)[3]
1,705 FTE (2024/25)[3]
Location
London, NW1
,
United Kingdom

51°31′35″N 0°09′39″W / 51.52639°N 0.16083°W / 51.52639; -0.16083
CampusLondon and Dubai
Colours
Websitelondon.edu
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London Business School's main campus is in Marylebone, London, with the main site at Sussex Place, adjacent to Regent's Park, and other nearby sites at the Taunton Centre on Taunton Place and the Sammy Ofer Centre in the former Marylebone Town Hall. LBS also has an international satellite campus in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.

History

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Sussex Place, main campus of the London Business School in London

The Robbins Report committee recommended in the early 1960s that at least two major for postgraduate business schools should be created, and the Franks Report (led by Oliver Franks) subsequently recommended that one be founded in London and one in Manchester. An industry appeal raised £5 million, with a matching grant from the government, to establish these schools. The initial plan for the London school was for it to be a joint effort between the London School of Economics and Imperial College London.[4] However, this plan did not develop and London Business School was instead established in 1964 under the name of the London Graduate School of Business Studies.[5] The first meeting of the board was held in November 1964, with the first dean being appointing in April 1965 and the first two professors in May 1965. The executive education programme started in February 1966[6] The MBA (called an MSc until 1985) also launched in 1966. Despite Franks' recommendation that the business schools should offer 12-month MBA courses, this was a 2-year course after the US model.[7] The part-time MBA followed in 1983.[6]

The school was incorporated as a company limited by guarantee in 1965 and became an "institution having recognised teachers" of the University of London.[8] In 1968, the school joined the Sloan Fellows MSc programme, funded by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, with an initial intake of 17 students.[8] The first doctoral programme was established in 1969, with backing from the Ford Foundation.[9]

The school was initially based in the fourth to tenth floors of 28 Northumberland Avenue while a permanent site was chosen. The first choice for a permanent site, between Bayswater and Edgware Road in central London, but this encountered opposition from London County Council and was eventually dropped. Eventually, the decision was made to lease 1–26 Sussex Place from the Crown Estate Commission. The neoclassical frontage, designed by John Nash, had to be retained, but the rest of the building was rebuilt for the school. This was completed in 1970 and opened by Queen Elizabeth II in November of that year. The new building combined accommodation and teaching facilities, allowing the school to begin running residential executive courses.[10]

The Park Road building (now the Plowden Building), adjacent to the Sussex Place site and also leased from the Crown Estate, was redeveloped from 1977 following a capital campaign. Initial plans to demolish parts terrace and replace it with a modernist building were dropped after opposition from the local council. Construction eventually began in 1981 with the facade along Park Road being retained, as had been done with Sussex Place, but the interior being rebuilt. It opened in 1982, with a later formal opening by Prince Charles in May 1983.[10][8]

The school operated as a graduate school of the University of London until 1986, when it was incorporated by royal charter, which gave LBS the right to confer its own degrees (held in abeyance until 2010) and became a college of the university under the name London Business School.[11] The school won a Queen's Award for Export in 1992.[8] The executive MBA was launched in 1992,[8] and the Masters in Finance programme the following year.[12] A global executive MBA in partnership with Columbia Business School was launched in 2001.[8]

In 1995, the school acquired a block of houses on Taunton Place and raised £8 million to coney this to an academic complex including a library, seminar rooms and offices, as well as an underground recreation centre.[10]

In 2007 a campus was opened in Dubai.[12] An Asian-focused version of the global executive MBA was launched in 2009 in partnership with Columbia Business school and the University of Hong Kong, along with the Masters in Management programme.[8] In 2016, LBS launched a new programme, the Masters in Financial Analysis, aimed at recent graduates who wish to work in finance.[citation needed]

In 2012, the school leased Marylebone Town Hall, located close to the Sussex Place site, from Westminster City Council[12][8] and restored it with the objective of expanding its teaching facilities by 70 per cent.[13] The building was renamed "The Sammy Ofer Centre" following a donation from the Sammy Ofer Foundation for the development of the building,[12], and opened in 2017.[14][10] In 2016, the main building on Sussex Place was renamed the Ratcliffe Building in honour of alumnus Jim Ratcliffe.[15] In 2019, the school acquired the lease of 27 Sussex Place, adjacent to the existing buildings, from the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists. This became the North Building.[16]

List of deans

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The 2008 honorary fellowship ceremony at London Business School with Dean Andrew Likierman

List of the deans from 1965 to today:[17]

Starting year Ending year Name
1965 1972 Arthur Earle
1972 1984 Sir James Ball
1984 1989 Peter G. Moore
1989 1997 Sir George Bain
1998 2001 John Quelch
2002 2006 Laura Tyson
2007 2008 Robin Buchanan
2009 2017 Sir Andrew Likierman
2017 2024 François Ortalo-Magné
2024 Present Sergei Guriev

Campus

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The Ratcliffe Building at the main Sussex Place campus in London
The Marylebone Town Hall, second campus in London

The main campus is at Sussex Place in Marylebone, on the perimeter of Regent's Park. It consists of three main buildings: the Ratcliffe Building, the original main building of the school, at 1–26 Sussex Place, facing Regent's Park across the Front Lawn; the Plowden Building, backing onto the Ratcliffe Building and facing Park Road; and the North Building, at 27 Sussex Place.[16][18]

The Taunton Centre is at 25 Taunton Place, around 150m West of the Plowden Building.[16]

The school also has a teaching hub at the Sammy Ofer Centre in the Old Marylebone Town Hall.[19]

The school does not have any halls of residence of its own i'n London but, as part of the University of London, students are eligible for University of London intercollegiate halls.[20]

LBS has an international satellite campus in the Dubai International Financial Centre in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. This offers an executive MBA and executive education programmes.[21]

Academic profile

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HESA Student Body Composition (2024/25)
Domicile[22] and Ethnicity[23] Total
British White[a] 7%
 
British Ethnic Minorities[b] 8%
 
International EU 17%
 
International Non-EU 68%
 

Teaching

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The school's full-time Master of Business Administration degree programme takes 15 to 21 months,[24] and it also offers a one-year MBA for graduates with a Masters in Management or equivalent,[25] as well as executive (part-time) MBA degrees (in London or Dubai),[26] and a global executive MBA in partnership with Columbia Business School.[27] The school also offers other one-year master's degrees,[28] including the Master in Management[29] and Master in Finance degrees[30] and the Sloan Masters in Leadership and Strategy,[31] as well as a PhD programmme.[32]

Reputation, rankings and accreditation

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Business school rankings
Europe MBA Rankings
QS (2026)[33]2
FT (2026)[34]3
Global MBA Rankings
QS (2026)[35]6
FT (2026)[36]4=

The school's MBA was ranked sixth globally by Quacquarelli Symonds in 2026[35] and joint fourth globally by the Financial Times in 2026.[36]

The school is triple accredited,[37] with accreditation from AACSB, AMBA and EQUIS. Courses in Dubai are approved by the Dubai Knowledge and Human Development Authority and the Dubai executive MBA is licensed and accredited by the Ministry of Education of the United Arab Emirates.[38] The school is registered as a higher education provider with its own degree awarding powers with the Office for Students in England.[39]

Research

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The school houses two research institutes: the Institute of Entrepreneurship and Private Capital and the Wheeler Institute for Business and Development.[40] The school submitted 106 full time equivalent academics to the business and management studies panel of the 2021 Research Excellence Framework. In the Times Higher Education analysis of results from this panel, the school was ranked third in the UK for average quality of work submitted, and 15th for research power.[41]

Notable people

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Alumni

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Academics and staff

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See also

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Notes

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  1. ↑ Not be confused solely with White British
  2. ↑ Includes those who indicate that they identify as Asian, Black, Mixed Heritage, Arab or any other ethnicity except White.

References

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  1. 1 2 "Annual Report and Financial Statements For year ended 31 July 2025" (PDF). London Business School. Retrieved 15 December 2025.
  2. ↑ "Who's working in HE?". Higher Education Statistics Agency. Staff numbers by HE provider: HE staff by HE provider and activity standard occupational classification. Retrieved 19 February 2026.
  3. 1 2 "Where do HE students study?". Higher Education Statistics Agency. Students by HE provider: HE student enrolments by HE provider. Retrieved 27 January 2026.
  4. ↑ Peter Venables (1965). "Technical Education in Great Britain: Second Thoughts on the Robbins Report". International Review of Education. 11 (2): 151–164. JSTOR 344239.
  5. ↑ "History of the department". LSE Department of Management. Retrieved 6 May 2026. In the mid-1960s, the issue of whether a graduate school of business should be established in the capital (as well as in Manchester) was on the agenda of government, business groups, and the University of London. The idea of a Joint School of Administration, Economics, and Technology (between LSE and Imperial) was floated, but did not come to fruition. The outcome was that the London Graduate School of Business Studies (known today as the London School of Business (LBS)) opened its doors in 1965.
  6. 1 2 "Forty years of progress". London Business School. Archived from the original on 15 February 2005.
  7. ↑ Lock, Andrew R. (March 1996). "The Future of the MBA in the UK". Higher Education. 31 (2): 165–185. doi:10.1007/BF02390443. JSTOR 3447883. S2CID 144903186.
  8. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 "Our history". London Business School. Archived from the original on 1 September 2015.
  9. ↑ "40th Anniversary" (PDF). London Business School. Archived from the original (PDF) on 12 January 2006.
  10. 1 2 3 4 Matthew Hollow (18 December 2022). "Rethinking the role of planning and materiality in the Americanization of management education: The case of London Business School". Business History. Taylor and Francis: 1471–1495.
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  12. 1 2 3 4 "Reflections on 60 years of London Business School". London Business School. 29 July 2025. Retrieved 6 May 2026.
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  14. ↑ "Sammy Ofer Centre". Archived from the original on 12 March 2016.
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  16. 1 2 3 "In the heart of London". London Business School. Retrieved 7 May 2026.
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