Established in 1996, the Saïd Business School is one of Europe's fastest growing and most entrepreneurial management schools.
The School is fully integrated into Oxford University and draws on Oxford's strengths in subjects such as anthropology, economics, international relations, law, politics, and psychology.
In the prestigious ranking of full-time MBA programmes compiled by the Financial Times and published in January 2011, the School’s MBA was ranked number 27 in the world.
The School is ranked 15th worldwide in the FTs combined ranking of Executive Education programmes (May 10) and is ranked 11th in the European Business School ranking (Dec 2010).
The School is ranked in BusinessWeek’s top 10 business schools outside the USA (Nov 08)
Saïd Business School ranked first of all UK universities for undergraduate business in the university league table published by The Guardian (May 2008). The University of Oxford also ranked top for business studies in The Times report for seven of the last eight years.
Internationalism is a key feature of management education at Oxford. Our 238 one-year MBA students are drawn from 50 different countries around the world.
The School's new building in the centre of Oxford opened in 2001 and was designed by Dixon and Jones, the architects responsible for the new Royal Opera House in London.
Oxfordshire is one of Europe’s leading centres of enterprise, innovation and knowledge. The county has seen a higher growth rate in high-tech employment than anywhere else in the UK and many of its 2000 high-tech companies have links to Oxford University.
Oxford University has a strong track record in innovation. It has produced over 100 companies with a combined market capitalisation of over £2 billion. Three Oxford spinouts – VASTox, Evolutec and Physiomics – recently raised a total of £145 million on floatation.
Oxford Entrepreneurs is the largest student entrepreneur society in the UK, with over 7,000 members, one in ten of whom are running their own companies.
Oxford has the highest number of academics working in five-star departments of any UK university; its researchers have won over 40 Nobel prizes.