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Essex Business School
- We are one of the UK’s leading academic institutions, ranked ninth in the UK for the quality of our research.
- Essex Business School is located on both the Colchester and Southend campuses of the University. We are approximately an hour from London.
- The School offers degrees in accounting, entrepreneurship, finance, management and marketing, and we have recently launched a flagship, full-time MBA course.
- The School has been promoting high quality research and engaging teaching for 25 years.
Essex Business School advantage
Essex Business School is a thriving, student-focused business school with a fresh outlook on business education. 
Across all our courses, we emphasise a commitment to:
- innovative, exciting scholarship built on cutting-edge research;
- a broad and challenging teaching programme; and
- helping you make a valuable contribution to business and society
Cutting-edge research
Both theoretical and applied research can be found in our School, with much of it addressing the important issues currently being faced by commercial businesses, public sector bodies and not-for-profit organisations.
We are recognised for being at the forefront of research in areas such as: business ethics and corporate social responsibility; organisation studies; leadership and strategy; finance and banking; risk management; and international management research. We were ranked second in the UK for accounting and finance research*, with 95 per cent of our research graded as being of international quality.
*Most recent Research Assessment Exercise, 2008.
In addition, a number of research groups operate within Essex Business School, acting as a focus for research activity in areas such as accounting, finance, entrepreneurship and management. You will be able to tap into this resource through talks, seminars and events, run by the various groups throughout the academic year.
Many of our academic staff have international research reputations and bring their research findings and expertise into the classroom to broaden and enhance your learning experience.
Research examples
The real impact of carbon offsetting
Dr Steffen Boehm at Essex Business School has led research into the multi-billion-pound business of carbon offsetting. Essex researchers have warned carbon offsetting has not delivered a reduction in greenhouse gases and advised businesses to undertake initiatives closer to home.
Pinstripe Mafia: How Accountancy Firms Destroy Societies
Professor Prem Sikka looks at what he terms the “dark side of capitalism” whether that is accountancy, auditing, tax avoidance, or corporate governance. His research has explored tax scams, money laundering, tax havens, audit failures, insolvency abuses, bribery, corruption and the visible hand of financial intermediaries and thus connect the dots to current economic crises.
- We were ranked second in the most recent Research Assessment Exercise in the accounting and finance subject area (RAE, 2008).
- We have an outstanding research environment.
- We apply social sciences and ethics to business teaching.
- We advocate sustainable business strategies in our teaching.
- We address changing economic, financial and social environments.
Want to know more?
Go to: www.essex.ac.uk/ebs
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