Edinburgh Business School, Heriot-Watt University

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The Edinburgh Business School MBA programme is awarded by Heriot-Watt University (Approved by Högskoleverket) and is published and marketed to students worldwide.

Edinburgh Business School
Facts about and history of Heriot-Watt's graduate school of business.

Heriot-Watt University
The history of this distinguished Scottish University and its modern offerings and accomplishments.

Edinburgh Business School
Edinburgh Business School (EBS) is Heriot-Watt University's Graduate School of Business, which is the degree-awarding body. The School, launched in 1995, marked a milestone in Heriot-Watt University's provision of postgraduate management education and executive development. EBS offers a portfolio of business education programmes delivered on a variety of learning platforms. The School also specialises in the design and delivery of tailored executive development programmes.

Professor Keith Lumsden is the Director of Edinburgh Business School. In addition to his extensive teaching and consultancy for many international companies, Professor Lumsden was for 13 years a member of faculty of the Graduate School of Business, Stanford University, USA. In 1994, he was awarded the Economics America Henry H. Villard Award from the US Council for Economics Education in recognition of his outstanding contribution to economics education through research. This research laid the foundation for the development of many of the educational techniques incorporated in the MBA texts. EBS are accredited by Royal Charter.

Key Developments

1985: The Heriot-Watt University MBA is introduced, initially through full-time and part-time programmes taught on the University campus in Edinburgh. The programmes are successful and prove popular with participants. However many well-qualified individuals are unable to participate because their professional or personal commitments make these methods of MBA study impossible.

1990: Growing demand for a more flexible approach to MBA study leads to the launch of the Heriot-Watt University Distance Learning MBA programme. The product of 15 years' design and development, this uniquely flexible programme enables individuals to study the degree anywhere in the world at a pace and in locations which suit them.

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1993: Heriot-Watt becomes the first university in Scotland to introduce a consortium MBA programme tailored specially to meet the needs of participating companies.

1994: In recognition of its global success, the Heriot-Watt University Distance Learning MBA Programme is awarded the prestigious Queen's Award for Export Achievement.

1995: In response to the growth and development of the Heriot-Watt University MBA, Edinburgh Business School is established as the Graduate School of Business of Heriot-Watt University.

1997: For the first time, students of the Heriot-Watt University MBA can move among different study programmes and so vary the pace and method of study to suit their individual circumstances.

1998: Opening of the new custom-built Edinburgh Business School.

1999: A second Queens Award is won.

2001: First online versions of courses available.

Heriot-Watt University
History
James Watt

Heriot-Watt University has its origins in a school for engineers established in Edinburgh in 1821. Its founders intended to educate for the rapidly changing technologies of their day. The modern university, which received its Royal Charter in 1966, retains the same ambition.

Heriot-Watt enjoys an international reputation as a research-based technological university dedicated to high quality education and training. It is active at the leading edge of fundamental, strategic and applied research and technology transfer. The University has placed itself at the forefront of new thinking and new developments in technology-based teaching and learning.

In addition to Edinburgh Business School, with its concentration on postgraduate management education, the University boasts an impressive number of advanced educational centres and institutes. Internationally recognised postgraduate activities include petroleum engineering, sub-sea engineering and underwater technology, international education, and technology management.