WBS in the top three in the Times Good University Guide

In this year's Times Good University Guide, published today, Warwick Business School's Undergraduate Programme has retained its number one rating for BSc Accounting & Finance, and improved its rating for Business Studies by coming in the top three in the UK, along with Oxford and Cambridge. The BSc Accounting & Finance degree at WBS has now held the very top spot in this guide in four out of the past five years.

Professor Mark Taylor, Dean of Warwick Business School commented, "Warwick Business School's continued excellent performance in this year's Times Good University Guide shows that we are not content to rest on our laurels: retaining our number one spot for BSc Accounting & Finance while improving our overall Business Studies position to top three shows that WBS really does mean business.

"It also shows that we are delivering on our mission to give our students a top return on their investment by giving them a first class education that is both intellectually rigorous and highly relevant for their future careers; indeed, the fact that Warwick and Cambridge are the two most targeted universities by employers is something of which we are very proud."

Professor Peter Corvi, Associate Dean for the Undergraduate Programme at WBS, added, "In addition to our coming top once again for Accounting & Finance, the fact that our other undergraduate degrees - BSc Management, BSc International Business, and BSc International Management - are rated in the top three along with Oxford and Cambridge is testimony to the excellence of our teaching and the value of a Warwick degree."

Further information
The Times Good University Guide has been published annually since 1993 to help students choose degree courses. It compiles various measures of performance relevant to students to produce an overall university rank and subjects rankings. These criteria include research performance, entry standards, grades achieved at graduation, staff-student ratio, and job prospects.

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Peter Corvi
Associate Dean (Undergraduate Programme), Professorial Teaching Fellow in Finance

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One of Europe's largest business schools and the largest department of the highly-rated University of Warwick, WBS is fully accredited. Our teaching is rated excellent and 75 percent of our research is rated at 3* and above, placing us 3rd in the UK.
Over 8,000 students from 130 countries currently study here. Their interaction with top faculty creates a multicultural learning environment, enhanced by outstanding teaching and study facilities and a top-quality campus.
Our teaching covers the full range of business education, from undergraduate and masters degrees to the Warwick MBA, doctoral research, and executive education.

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