AACSB Accreditation Standards require a high quality teaching environment, a commitment to continuous improvement, and curricula responsive to the needs of businesses. This achievement means that not only has the Management School met specific standards of excellence, but has also made a commitment to on-going improvement to ensure that the institution will continue to deliver high quality education to its students.

AACSB- Accredited Schools produce graduates that are highly skilled and more desirable to employers than other non-accredited schools.

Professional Recognition

ACCA

Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA): Exemptions for Accounting and Finance Programmes.

CIMA

Chartered Institute of Management Accountants (CIMA): Accounting and Finance BA has exemptions from up to twelve papers from CIMA examinations.
Business Management BA has full exemptions from CIMA’s Certificate in Business Accounting & partial exemptions from operational and management level requirements.

ICAEW

Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales (ICAEW): MSc Accounting has exemptions from Professional Level examinations.

CIPFA

Chartered Institute of Public Finance and Accounting (CIPFA): Exemptions for Accounting and Finance programmes.

CFA

Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA): Awarded to MSc Finance and Investment Management.

ESRC

Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC): Awarded to the MRes programme.

CIM

Chartered Institute of Marketing (CIM): MSc Marketing has a Graduate Gateway exemption from the Strategic Marketing module on the Level 6 professional qualification.

CIPS

Chartered Institute of Purchasing and Supply (CIPS): MSc Operations and Supply Chain Management is an accredited programme pathway to become a fully qualified member of CIPS (MCIPS).

CILT

Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport: Awarded to MSC Operations and Supply Chain Management.

PMI

The University of Liverpool has been reviewed and approved as a provider of project management training by the Project Management Institute (PMI®). More specifically the online MSc in Project Management abides by PMI® established quality assurance criteria and has been approved by the PMI to issue PDUs for the course modules.

CIPD

Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD): The Management School is now an approved CIPD Centre. MSc Human Resource Management is CIPD accredited. This applies to the Liverpool campus programme only.

Small Business Charter

The Small Business Charter recognises excellence in supporting SMEs through offering expert advice and training to help small businesses grow.

ICAS

Institute of Chartered Accountants of Scotland (ICAS): Accounting and Finance BA has exemptions from five Tests of Competence

EOCCS

The University of Liverpool Management School has recently been certified by EOCCS Online Course Certification System.

CEO Magazine

The MBA programme achieved Tier 1 Status in CEO Magazine’s 2018 Global MBA rankings.

REF2014

The latest REF was undertaken in 2014 and the Management School was ranked 27th out of 101 submissions in the UK for world leading and internationally excellent (4* & 3*) publications.

The Economist

The MBA programme is ranked in The Economist’s ‘Which MBA?’ 2018 top 100 global ranking. The Management School’s MSc Management also recently entered The Economist’s WhichMBA? Masters in Management rankings.

Institute of Export

BA and MSc International Business programmes are accredited by the Institute of Export (IOE)

FT European Business Schools

The University of Liverpool Management School entered the Financial Times (FT) European Business Schools ranking for 2018.

FT Masters in Finance

The University of Liverpool Management School returned to the Financial Times (FT) Global Masters in Finance ranking for 2018.

FT Masters in Management

The University of Liverpool Management School entered the Financial Times (FT) Global Masters in Management ranking for 2018.

QS Global MBA Rankings

The University of Liverpool Management School ranks in the QS World University Rankings: Global MBA Rankings 2018

SportBusiness Postgradaute Course Rankings

The University of Liverpool Management School is ranked in the SportBusiness Postgraduate Course Rankings for 2018.

The Times Higher Education and Wall Street Journal Rankings

The MBA programme is ranked number 28 in a ranking of the world’s best one-year programmes by The Times Higher Education and Wall Street Journal