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Kent Business School
The University of Kent Business School at Canterbury and Medway
Type	Business School
Established	1988
Parent institution	University of Kent
Dean	Marian Garcia
Students	9289 (Faculty of Social Sciences)
Undergraduates	1822
Postgraduates	346
Doctoral students	54
Location	Canterbury and Medway, United Kingdom
Campus	Semi-rural
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Website	www.kent.ac.uk/kbs

Kent Business School (KBS) is the business school of the University of Kent. Although there are two business schools known as KBS, generally people seem to consider KBS as King's Business School first because it was established in 1980, eight years before Kent Business School. Since opening in 1988, it offers undergraduate, postgraduate, PhD degree programmes and The Kent MBA.

KBS is sited in two locations, at The University of Kent campus in Canterbury and at Medway on Chatham Historic Dockyard.

In March 2017, Kent Business School at the Canterbury Campus moved into its new home, The Sibson Building, named after the University of Kent's third Vice-Chancellor, Professor Robin Sibson.

Rankings & reputation

League Table Performance

31st in the UK for Business and Management Studies (The Complete University Guide 2021)^[1]
26th in the UK for Accounting and Finance (The Complete University Guide 2021)
9th in the UK for Marketing (The Complete University Guide 2021)

Degree programmes

The University of Kent's business school currently runs a variety of Undergraduate, Postgraduate, PhD programmes and an MBA. At undergraduate level, competition for places at KBS are relatively competitive with the average KBS student achieving ABB-AAB at A-Level to secure a place^[2]

Undergraduate

BSc (Hons) Accounting and Finance
BA (Hons) Business and Management
BA (Hons) Business (top-up)
BSc (Hons) Finance and Investment
BSc (Hons) International Business
BSc (Hons) Management
BSc (Hons) Marketing

Programmes are also offered with the opportunity to take a Year Abroad or a Year in Industry.

Postgraduate

MSc Business Analytics
MSc Digital Marketing and Analytics
MSc Finance (Finance and Management)
MSc Finance (Finance, Investment and Risk)
MSc Finance (Financial Markets)
MSc Finance (International Banking and Finance)
MSc Healthcare Management
MSc Human Resource Management
MSc International Business and Management
MSc Logistics and Supply Chain Management
MSc Management
MSc Marketing
MSc Project Management
The Kent MBA

PhD

Accounting
Finance
Management
Management Science
Marketing
Operational Research

Organisational relationships

The Business School has a variety of links with companies and organisations as well as other academic institutions.

The school's academic network includes:^[3]

Austria: Universität Innsbruck, Innsbruck
Germany: EBS Universität für Wirtschaft und Recht, Wiesbaden
Germany: Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin
France: ESSEC Business School, Paris
France: Neoma Business School, Rouen and Rheims
France: ESC Rennes School of Business, Rennes
France: Jean Moulin University Lyon 3, Lyon
Italy: Università Carlo Cattaneo, Castellanza
Italy: Università degli Studi di Firenze, Florence
Spain: IE Business School, Madrid
Sweden: Stockholm University, Stockholm
China: Renmin University of China, Beijing
Hong Kong: Hong Kong Baptist University
Hong Kong: University of Hong Kong

Research

Kent Business School carries out research related activities including workshops, conferences and research seminar series. This has led to a large number of international collaborations and to over 200 co-authored papers with international partners.^{[citation needed]}

Research groups include; Accounting, Finance, Management Science, Marketing, People Management and Organisation, Strategy and International Business.

Research centres include; The Centre for Quantitative Finance and The Centre for Logistics and Heuristic Optimisation.