London Metropolitan Business School

London Metropolitan Business School (LMBS) is one of the largest and most successful Business Schools in the country.

The most recent subject review of our teaching, student support and course provision by the UK Government’s Quality Assurance Agency awarded business and management education top marks and so placed it in the top 5% of UK Business Schools. LMBS offers an amazing range of courses with study opportunities that include the following areas:

Accounting
Arts, Events and Sports Management
Aviation Management
Banking and Finance
Business and Management
Business Psychology
Economics
Entrepreneurship
Human Resource Management
International Business
Marketing
Music and Media Management
Tourism
Transport and Travel Management

We offer flexible degrees, committed and expert teaching, a supportive learning environment and the opportunity to study in the City of London - one of the biggest and most dynamic financial centres in the world. Our links with professional bodies and the emphasis we give to equipping you with the competencies required by employers will give you a head start in finding a rewarding career.

We place great emphasis on developing the employability of our students. All courses develop both subject and transferable skills, such as team-working and communication, which are so valued by employers. We also encourage you to take advantage of opportunities for work experience. On some courses this takes the form of a year-long sandwich placement between the second and final year of the course.

For other courses, where work-placements are not compulsory, you can usually undertake an extended work placement as an option, or take a shorter work-placement module either as a five-week block over the summer, part-time, or one or two days a week over one or both semesters in your final year.

Our Business Relations Office helps students secure placements and works with hundreds of organisations, both nationally and internationally. Recent employers have included Air France, Arsenal Football Club, Barclays Bank, BBC Worldwide, Chester Boyd, HSBC, Limelight Projects, Orient Express and the Hilton Hotel Group. One of our placement students on the BA Events Management and Marketing course says, "Working in the BBC Events and Exhibitions department was enjoyable and challenging. I was an assistant for the Gardeners' World Live exhibition. The London Met Placement Office was great in helping me to prepare for my interview and providing necessary support on my studies."

As well as a well-stocked library and modern ICT labs using cutting-edge technology, our facilities include a Bloomberg Research Trading Room where
you can get hands-on experience of a dealing room and a flight simulator on which Aviation students can get experience of landing an aircraft. We continue
to invest in learning materials and colleagues within LMBS are working with their counterparts at the Universities of Cambridge and Nottingham to develop electronic learning resources.

The School’s commitment to teaching is reflected in the award of a National Teaching Fellowship to Dr Guglielmo Volpe. Some tips from Guglielmo on preparing for study at University can be found on the LMBS website.

The world is becoming a smaller place and LMBS is aware of the need to provide students with an education that equips them to deal with this. The University’s study abroad programmes provide you with an opportunity to study in another country and strengthen your CV. For Economics and International Business students there is the opportunity to study at the University of Lund or the University of Stockholm. For Banking and Finance students, and in collaboration with the Fachhochschule, Frankfurt there is the opportunity to study and work for a year in Germany. Some exchanges are supported financially and teaching is in English. Whatever course you are following, the opportunity exists to study in Europe for a semester under the ERASMUS and Socrates schemes. The value of such exchanges is clear as one of our second year business students explains, "Whilst studying abroad it is possible to develop so much as an individual. You learn how to interact with new people and adapt to a new environment. I will never forget the time I spent abroad."

In addition, we help students to secure work placements abroad. Recent overseas-based employers of our students include Disney (Florida and Paris), Rail Europe, DICR Europe Ltd, Eurocity Consultants (Brussels), Dunas Hotel (Grand Canaria), Siemens (Germany), Orient Express Hotels and Trains and Cruises Worldwide.

"The experience gained whilst working abroad provides an excellent opportunity to develop transferable skills and ultimately enhances employability to a great extent," explains our student who worked for the Japanese Olympic Committee in Tokyo last year.

Those who remain in London for their studies will be able to exchange ideas with students from over 100 countries. Additionally, through our links with universities throughout the world, your lecturers will be aware of global trends in business and management education and will use this insight in the work with you.

Our graduates can be found working in many countries and in all sectors of the economy. Some of the organisations where our students have found employment include BP, Coutts Bank, Daiwa, Deloitte and Touche, Deutsche
Morgan Grenfell, Forte UK, Marks and Spencer, Rank Xerox, Royal Bank of Scotland and Virgin.

Our courses benefit from the research activity conducted by staff, which in the last Research Assessment Exercise was rated as being of national excellence or better. Staff act as consultants for a variety of organisations and this work also helps to inform our teaching and courses.

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Association of Chartered Accountants
Chartered Insurance Institute
Chartered Institute of Bankers
Chartered Institute of Management Accountants
Chartered Institute of Marketing
Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development
Chartered Institute of Public Finance Accountants
Chartered Institute of Public Relations
Chartered Institute of Purchasing and Logistics
Chartered Institute of Purchasing and Supply
Communication, Advertising and Marketing Education Foundation
Hotel, Catering and Institutional Management Association
Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales
Institute of Chartered Shipbrokers
Institute of Direct Marketing
Institute of Leisure and Amenity Management
Joint Aviation Authority
Market Research Society
Royal Aeronautical Society
Tourism Society