Cardiff Business School (reviews)

Academics at Cardiff Business School

Cardiff Business School offers a diverse range of undergraduate, postgraduate, PhD and executive courses, many of which are accredited. Peer to peer learning is a very common method of learning used in courses at the University along with regular tuition. Undergraduate courses focus on getting a perfect balance between theory and practice in order to fully prepare students for the professional business environment after graduation. Cardiff Business School’s MBA directs its focus to global business and pays attention to how wider commercial, social and environmental impacts of decision-making affect it. MBA students’ assessments, which revolve around strategy, personnel, consultancy, innovation, and crisis, also demand both individual and teamwork. The Executive MBA option offered by the School is delivered in three-day blocks for 28 months in order to fit around people’s work. The classes are relatively small in order to ensure that everyone gets the required attention from the programme leader, but at the same time are large enough allowing for networking and dynamic learning. Cardiff Business School provides a wide range of specialist master’s degrees in the field of business and management as well. Postgraduate and executive education opportunities are also available at Cardiff Business School.

Campus & Student Life

Cardiff Business School is located at the northern end of the Cathays Park Campus. It is just a 15-minute walk from the city centre and all the attractions it has got to offer. The campus has representatives of multiple countries and nationalities, which creates an international environment.

The Aberconway Building is where most of the Business School activities happen thanks to its teaching space, seminar rooms and lecture theatres. The building also houses academic offices and a café. The Aberconway Library is part of the Aberconway Building. The Library is specifically dedicated to business disciplines and has an availability of multiple copies of textbooks and more than 60,000 books. It has subscriptions to approximately 1,800 national and international journals, e-books and newspapers as well. The Julian Hodge Building is also part of Cardiff Business School. It contains a large lecture theatre and a resource centre equipped with 136 computers, which all have various software packages, statistical packages, and databases. The Postgraduate Teaching Centre provides students with a working space, a coffee shop and seating areas perfect for group work, networking or simply relaxing between lectures. Cardiff Business School boasts a 56-seat capacity trading floor, which gives students the opportunity to get a real experience of trading stocks.

Career & Alumni

Cardiff Business School improves graduates’ employability and supports them in finding placements, internships and business projects. Students also have access to the Careers Centre, which helps them in realizing their professional goals.

97% of Cardiff Business School undergraduates find employment or further study within six months of graduation. Graduates’ secure managerial and operational roles and their employment places range from global organizations to small businesses in different sectors in the UK, Europe and the rest of the world. Examples of companies that graduates work for include Sky, Barclays Corporate, Citibank, Deloitte, KPMG, Microsoft, JP Morgan, and BMW.