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About UCD Michael Smurfit Graduate Business School

About UCD Michael Smurfit Graduate Business School
UCD College of Business has provided business education for over a century, first introducing the Bachelor of Commerce degree in 1908. In 1964, University College Dublin became one of the first universities in Europe to offer the degree of Master of Business Administration (MBA). In 1991, the graduate business school opened its own campus in Blackrock, County Dublin. With over 100 faculty members, 1,400 students and 80,000 alumni worldwide, UCD Smurfit School is one of a small number of business schools worldwide and the only school in Ireland, to hold triple international accreditation (US - AACSB, European - EQUIS and UK – AMBA).
The school’s programmes have been consistently ranked among the leading European business schools’ programmes by the Economist and Financial Times, since 2000.
Rankings/ Partnerships
Financial Times Global Rankings:
- Our Full-Time MBA is ranked as 94th in the world and 25th in Europe
- Our Executive MBA is ranked 74th in the world
- Our Executive Education Open Enrolment programme is ranked 48th in the world
- Our Masters in International Management is ranked 15th in the world
- Our MSc Finance is ranked 36th in the world
- The school is ranked 24th in the Financial Times' ranking of leading European Business Schools
- Economist Intelligence Unit Global Rankings:
- Our Full-time MBA is ranked 100th in the global rankings
- Our Executive MBA is ranked 55th in the global rankings
Elite partnerships
Owing to its international reputation UCD Smurfit School is a member of a number of invitation-only networks of the world’s top business schools. They include:
- Community of European Management Schools (CEMS) where UCD Smurfit School represents Ireland in this strategic global alliance of leading Business Schools and Multinational Companies. It currently comprises 30 world-class academic institutions and over 60 of the world’s leading multinational companies and a number of NGOs.
- Global Network for Advanced Management in which UCD College of Business is a member of an alliance of elite international business schools, numbering just 25 that connect to address the complex leadership issues of business and society worldwide including Yale School of Management, London School of Economics and INSEAD.
- Partnership in International Management (PIM), a worldwide invitation-only consortium of top business schools which provides a framework for international co-operation primarily at the graduate level.
- UN Principles for Responsible Management Education (PRME), where UCD College of Business has signed the UN-backed Principles for Responsible Management Education with the objective of providing future leaders with the necessary insights and skills to reflect upon, critically analyse, and provide leadership with regard to corporate responsibility.
- UNICON, an invitation only alliance of the world’s leading university-based executive education providers where members share knowledge, research and perspectives to support the evolution of executive development programmes to ensure they continually provide best practice informed by global insights. UCD Smurfit Executive Development is the only Irish member and one of just 22 European business schools including INSEAD, London Business School, IESE and IMD to be awarded full membership. Other international members include the very elite of Ivy League business schools; Harvard, Cornell, Columbia, Dartmouth, Yale and the University of Pennsylvania.
Postgraduate study
Accounting
Finance
- MSc in Aviation Finance
- MSc in Energy and Environmental Finance
- MSc in Finance
- MSc in Quantitative Finance
Human Resource Management
Management
- MSc in Food Business Strategy
- MSc in International Business
- MSc in International Management / CEMS MIM
- MSc in Management
- MSc in Management Part-Time
- MSc in Management Consultancy
- MSc in Project Management
- MSc in Project Management Part-Time
- MSc in Strategic Management and Planning
- MSc in Supply Chain Management
- Full Time MBA
- Executive MBA
- MSc Pathway
Marketing
- MSc in Digital Marketing
- MSc in Digital Marketing Part-Time
- MSc in Marketing
- MSc in Marketing Practice
Technology and Innovation
- MSc in Business Analytics
- MSc in Digital Innovation
- MSc in Digital Innovation Part-Time
- MSc in Innovation, Entrepreneurship and Design Part-Time
UCD Belfield Courses ran in conjunction with UCD Smurfit School
- MSc in Biotechnology and Business
- MSc in Biotherapeutics and Business
- MSc in International Law and Business
- Full-time MBA (12 months)
- Executive part-time MBA (24 months)
Our Executive Development Courses include:
Professional Diplomas in:
- Diploma in Organisational Change & Transformation
- Diploma in Strategic Growth (Biotech & Pharma Industry)
- Diploma in Corporate Governance
- Diploma in Team Coaching
- Diploma in Strategy Development and Innovation
- Diploma in Advanced Management Performance
- Diploma in High Performance Sales & Business Development
- Diploma in Business & Executive Coaching
- Diploma in Business Finance
- Diploma in Strategic Growth (Food Industry)
- Diploma in Leadership Development
- Diploma in Advanced Business & Executive Coaching
MSc Programmes
- Bord Bia Marketing Fellowship (MSc International Marketing Practice)
- MSc in Business (Leadership & Management Practice)
- MSc in Business & Executive Coaching
- Bord Bia Origin Green Ambassadors (MSc Business Sustainability)
Industry Programmes Bord Bia
- Bord Bia Marketing Fellowship (MSc International Marketing Practice)
- Diploma in Strategic Growth (Food Industry)
- Bord Bia Origin Green Ambassadors (MSc Business Sustainability)
Short Programmes
Funding
UCD Smurfit School offers a wide range of merit and needs-based scholarships for prospective students, see here for details.