Subjects/academic units

• Accounting & Finance
• Economics
• Management

Staff

• Academic staff: 115
• Academic staff with PhDs: 92
• Professorial staff: 42
• Female academic staff: 42
• International academic staff: 52
• Total nationalities represented: 24
• Professional and Administrative staff: 41

Students

Undergraduate students

• Number of students: 2,307
• Home/EU: 2094
• International: 213*

Postgraduate taught students

• Applied: 14,463
• Enrolled postgraduate resident students: 1,457
• International students: 1,347*
• Total nationalities represented: 54

PhD

• Number of students: 127
• International students: 86*
• Total nationalities represented: 51

Alumni

Living alumni of the School: 8,176

Accreditation

• Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB International)
• Association of MBAs (AMBA)
• Institute of Chartered Accountants of Scotland
• Institute of Chartered Accountants of England and Wales
• Association of Chartered Certified Accountants
• Chartered Institute of Management Accountants
• Chartered Institute of Public Finance and Accountancy

We are also members of the Association of Business Schools and of the European Foundation for Management Development.

All information is correct as of 20 May 2013

*International students refers to students not from the UK or other EU countries

Grants and funded research

Annual research income: £734,789 (average over three years)

Research Assessment Exercise 2008 results

• Accounting & Finance: 80% of research was judged to be of international quality with 10% rated as world-leading
• Economics: 100% of research was judged to be of international quality with 25% rated as world-leading
• Management: 85% of research judged to be of international quality with 10% world leading

Research areas

• Accounting Education
• Accounting History
• Audit and assurance
• Banking
• Consumers and Decision Making
• Corporate Governance
• Development Studies and Economic History
• Finance and Market Based Research
• Financial Economics
• Financial Reporting
• International Business
• Macroeconomics
• Management Accounting & Control
• Microeconomics
• Social, Ethical and Environmental Accounting Banking
• Strategy and Policy
• Work and Organisations

All information is correct as of 29 October 2012

Key Dates

1451: University of Glasgow founded

1727: The Chair of Moral Philosophy is founded, marking the birth of the subject of Political Economy at Glasgow

1752: Glasgow alumnus Adam Smith, father of modern economic thought, appointed Professor of Moral Philosophy at the University of Glasgow

1893: The Department of Political Economy first established at the University of Glasgow – later to become Economics

1896: The Adam Smith Chair of Political Economy first established

1925: Johnstone Smith Chair of Accountancy established

1952: The University of Glasgow begins to offer training and executive education for local managers

1968: Bachelor of Accountancy Degree introduced at Glasgow

1976: The MBA programme first offered at Glasgow

1980: The Master of International Accounting and Finance Management (MAcc) introduced at Glasgow

1983: The Centre for Development Studies (CDS) is established

1986: Business School formally established as a distinct unit within the University of Glasgow

1989: The Glasgow MBA receives AMBA accreditation

2007: The Business School is accredited by AACSB. The Centre for Economic and Financial Studies (CEFS) is also established

2010: The Departments of Accounting & Finance, Economics, and Management merge to form a new, multi-disciplinary, research-led Business School

2012: The Business School is renamed and the University of Glasgow Adam Smith Business School is born