External recognition
Choose a degree programme that will develop employability skills as well as giving you subject knowledge and choose a university that has a good reputation with employers.
The right choice of degree and university greatly improves your job chances.
Being highly respected both academically and by employers, and having a bustling campus that's got plenty to entertain you, makes Warwick first choice for forward looking students.
We are rated 'internationally outstanding' for research in business, so you can be sure of top quality teaching, a great social life, and a head start for your career.
Our undergraduate courses continue to receive recognition from a number of external sources.
Warwick Business School programmes stack up in rankings and surveys across the board:
- WBS was rated as 'excellent' - the highest possible rating - in its most recent teaching quality assessment, managed by The Quality Assurance Agency for Higher Education.
- The Times Good University Guide 2012 ranks us #1 in the UK for accounting & finance, and #3 for business studies.
- The Guardian University Guide 2012 rates WBS #2 in the UK.
- The Complete University Guide 2012 ranks WBS #2 for accounting & finance.
Overall, the University of Warwick maintains its position as one of the best universities in the country:
- The University of Warwick is consistently in the top ten UK universities in all British newspaper league tables.
- Warwick was the second most targeted university by UK employers in 2010-11, according to the Graduate Market 2011 report by High Fliers Research.
- It was ranked seventh among 159 universities in the UK for quality of research, in the last independent Research Assessment Exercise in 2008. 65% of Warwick's research is rated 'world-leading' or 'internationally excellent'.
- 22 out of 24 academic departments so far assessed by the The Quality Assurance Agency for Higher Education have rated excellent, with 21 or more points out of 24. Seven departments had perfect scores of 24.