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By Signe Hansen

At Westminster Business School not only are the lecturers professionals, the students are too! The cosmopolitan school, which is located just near Baker Street, London, requires students to have at least three years work experience to do an MBA with them.

Besides, as one of a select group of universities in the UK, Westminster is a member of the international, impartial authority on postgraduate business education, AMBA, which sets a global standard for MBA programmes.

Real skills

Director of Postgraduate Courses at Westminster Business School Jon Pike says: “Most people approaching us for MBAs have started work in a specialist area and are looking tomove on to the next step. To do that they need knowledge about HR, finance, IT, marketing and management which they can obtain here.”

Swedish Credit Analyst at Nordea Bank Kristina Nordström graduated from Westminster with a BA International Business (Honors) in 2007, and says she uses what she learned on a daily basis. “I was very impressed with the university. The lecturers were at a very high level, many had worked for some of the largest banks in the world and had real world knowledge. Inmy final year for instance we had a lecturer who had previously worked for Goldman Sachs,” she says.

An international profile

When it comes to attracting the best students, Westminster not only benefits from its location in central London, but also from an excellent reputation in business studies. “I was accepted in more than one place, but the reason I chose Westminster was that a friend recommended it, and I heard that the university’s Business School was very good,” stresses Nordström. In some courses almost 90 per cent of students come from outside the UK and together with their various backgrounds thus create a hub for knowledge sharing, says Pike and Nordström agrees: “There were a lot of students from abroad in my course and I think that created a great atmosphere. Everybody was very serious about their studies and strived to do well, which is also evident in the high numbers who graduated with a first degree honours.”

For more information visit:
www.westminster.ac.uk/schools/business