Rankings, achievements and accreditation | Saïd Business School

As a world-class business school, embedded in the world’s top University, we are honoured to have been acknowledged in a number of ways.

Accreditations and memberships

Part of offering a world-class business school experience is opening doors to global networks and providing you with exceptional education from an accredited institution.

EQUIS – EFMD

Accreditation
Global Network for Advanced Management

Membership
Athena Swan

Bronze Award 2018

Recent research community awards and achievements

Michael Gill, Associate Professor in Organisation Studies, and Sue Dopson, Interim Dean and Professor of Organisational Behaviour, received a 2021 Research Award from the Centre for Management Consulting Excellence
Mari Sako, Professor of Management Studies, was named a Fellow of The British Academy in 2021. The Fellowships recognise outstanding achievement in the humanities, arts, and social sciences
Michael Gill, Associate Professor in Organisation Studies, won the Academy of Management’s RMD Best Paper Award in 2021
Michael Smets,Professor of Management, and Tim Morris, Emeritus Professor, (with former DPhil candidate Ali Aslan Gümüsay) won the Best Published Paper 2021 Award from the Organisation and Management Theory Division of the Academy of Management
Tom Lawrence, Professor of Strategic Management, won the Academy of Management’s 2021 George R. Terry Book Award for his book ‘Constructing Organisational Life: How Social-Symbolic Work Shapes Selves, Organisations, and Institutions.’

Rankings

We are a world-class business school, fully integrated into the world's top university.

Here are just a few of our recent accolades.

Oxford University

1st in the latest Times Higher Education, World University Rankings

Overall

9th out of 95 business schools across Europe in the Financial Times (FT) annual rankings 2021
Top business school in the Times Higher Education Awards 2017

Executive Education

2nd in the world for Open Programmes, 1st in the UK – the Financial Times
4th in the UK for Custom Programmes – the Financial Times
12th in the world for Executive MBA - the Financial Times

Accounting and Finance

5th in the world – QS Top Universities

Degree programme rankings

BA in Economics and Management

1st in the UK – The Guardian
8th in the world – QS Top Universities

MSc Financial Economics

1st in the world - QS Top Universities
2nd in the UK – the Financial Times
12th in the world – the Financial Times

Oxford EMBA

12th in the world – the Financial Times
11th in the world – The Economist

Oxford MBA

3rd in the UK - the Financial Times' Global MBA Ranking
5th among international one-year MBA programmes – Forbes