Australian School of Business
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Australia
Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...
and the Asia-Pacific. It is a constituent body of the University of New South Wales
University of New South Wales
The University of New South Wales , is a research-focused university based in Kensington, a suburb in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia...
and offers undergraduate and postgraduate degrees along with MBA and Executive programs.
The school has over 8,000 students, divided into 4,500 undergraduate students, 3,500 postgraduate students and 250 PhD and Honours students. The school has 220 full-time academics and researchers, as well as 192 professional and technical staff.
History
In November 2006, the Australian Graduate School of ManagementAustralian Graduate School of Management
The MBA program of the Australian School of Business is known as the AGSM MBA, based in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. Founded as the Australian Graduate School of Management in 1977, the AGSM MBA is consistently ranked at the top of the national rankings and amongst one of the top MBA...
was merged with the Faculty of Commerce and Economics to form the Faculty of Business. In mid-2007 the Faculty was rebranded The Australian School of Business and by September 2007 had relocated into the newly renovated Australian School of Business Building .
The Faculty offers undergraduate and postgraduate degrees along with the AGSM MBA and AGSM Executive Programs.
For 2010 the ASB was ranked 36th internationally, and 1st in Australia, and 35th in the world, in the Financial Times 2010 Global MBA list.
In June, 2010 The Australian School of Business received accreditation from the European Foundation for Management Development (EFMD) for five years, the maximum allowed duration, under its accreditation brand the European Quality Improvement System (EQUIS).
As of January, 2011 ASB is ranked 35th internationally, 34th by a 3 year average ranking, and remains 1st in Australia, as published in the Financial Times 2011 Global MBA list.
Organisation
The Australian School of Business is composed of nine disciplinary schools:- School of Accounting
- School of Actuarial Studies
- School of Banking and Finance
- School of Business Law and Taxation
- School of Economics
- School of Information Systems, Technology and Management
- School of Organisation and Management
- School of Marketing (includes Tourism and Hospitality Management)
- School of Strategy and Entrepreneurship
Research
The faculty hosts ten research centres:- Centre for Accounting and Assurance Research (CAAR)
- Centre for Applied Economic Research (CAER)
- Centre for Applied Marketing
- Centre for Pensions and Superannuation (CPS)
- Centre for Tourism Policy Studies
- Industrial Relations Research Centre (IRRC)
- Korea-Australasia Research Centre (KAREC)
- Capital Markets Co-operative Research Centre (CMCRC)
- Co-operative Research Centre for Sustainable Tourism
- Securities Industry Research Centre of Asia-Pacific (SIRCA)