Winter graduation celebrations

Wednesday 18 January 2012 was a day of celebration for many WBS postgraduate students as they graduated at the Winter Degree ceremonies, held in the Arts Centre on the Warwick campus. A total of 457 students attended graduation, while 684 guests and numerous WBS staff joined them for a buffet lunch at the Rootes Panorama Suite. A further 219 students graduated in absentia.

MSc Management

The media sent photographers to capture the rare image of four quadruplets graduating together, three of the four gaining MSc in Management at WBS. They are pictured here with WBS Honorary Professor Kevin Morley. The full report on this four-time success is available on this link.

Finance Masters

The prestigious and growing Finance Masters programme awarded prizes for graduates taking MSc Finance. Outstanding academic achievement went to Anastasia-Olga Dekazou, while Michael Lee was awarded Best Student on the Investment Management Stream.

Best Dissertation prizes were awarded equally to Sebastian Kaufman, Jirawat Chaowalit, and Nuntchaya Thanasaranart.

Next year the number of Finance Masters available at WBS increases to six with the addition of the MSc in Finance & Information Technology.

The Warwick MBA
A total of 53 Warwick MBA students graduated, 20 of them from the full-time MBA cohort. These MBA graduates received the following prizes from the full-time study mode:

Best Overall Academic Performance:
- Shelley McIvor
- Lubna Quraishi
Both achieved 8 Distinctions in taught modules plus Distinction for their Projects & Dissertations.

Outstanding MBA Citizen:
- Will Skillman
- Antonia Koop
This award is for giving, and continuing to give, outstanding support to the Warwick MBA and to the WBS community - ambassadorial representation, helping with promotional events, contributing to accreditation processes, promoting WBS in the media, and always going the extra mile to promote the WBS brand.

Invited guests who assisted and participated in the celebrations were:

Oscar Acuna, an Ambassador for the WBS mentoring programme

Julia Evans, Vice Chair of the WBS Alumni Executive and MBA alumna. Julia's day job is as Chief Executive of the National Federation of Builders

Kevin Morley, WBS Honorary Professor, and Chairman of five private companies and a non-executive director of two PLCs.

Salman Sabry, Ambassador for the Finance Professional Network, who graduated with his Warwick MBA at this ceremony.

Tanya Sammut Bonnici is a doctoral graduate from WBS and serves on the WBS Alumni Executive.

Dean of WBS Professor Mark Taylor said, "I congratulate all of you who graduated today. Whilst graduation marks the end of one phase of your relationship with Warwick Business School, we hope that this will not be 'good bye'. As graduates of WBS, you enter a growing family of alumni, some 30,000 across the globe and more specifically, a network of around 8,500 MBA, 5,700 Masters and 500 PhD graduates. Higher education is an investment and WBS is a great place in which to invest. We are intent on delivering not only extra value and a competitive edge to you as you go forward into your careers, but also all the added benefits of belonging to the Warwick and WBS network of graduates."

Stay connected with WBS via www.wbs.ac.uk/alumni/

Photographs taken at the buffet lunch are available on Flickr's WBS web pages via this link - http://www.flickr.com/photos/wbs-ac-uk/sets/72157629000019753/