Dates: 11-14 June 2024
We are delighted to announce Manchester Metropolitan University as hosts of the 2024 NIBS Conference. Manchester is a city known for its warm welcome alongside its sporting legends, musical talent, cultural offering and bustling nightlife, do make sure you take the time to explore what makes this city so special.
Manchester Met Business School is triple accredited by EQUIS, AACSB and AMBA, meeting the international benchmark of excellence for business schools and placing it among the best business schools in the world.
Manchester Metropolitan University is a leading, modern university with a history of education since 1824. It has a global network of 333,000 alumni living in 170 countries, Manchester Met places great importance on its international students, collaborations, and partnerships. Manchester Met also has had a distinguished list of alumni and honorary graduates over many years. It is recognised by Stonewall as a champion of diversity within its community and recognised as one of the most sustainable universities in the UK. Manchester Met has always maintained strong links to industry and it has an impressive graduate employability rate of 93%. The University also partners with over 540 local and national organisations to hold 1,000 industry apprenticeship contracts.
As a result of the latest Research Excellence Framework 2021, Manchester Met has been identified as one of the top modern universities for research quality: 30% of research, across more than 740 academics, has been rated as world-leading. Manchester Met Business School, established in 1889, provides professionally focused teaching at an undergraduate, postgraduate and research level to over 10,000 students. Taught by world-class professionals with unrivalled industry experience, students carry out over 500 projects a year which solve live business issues for real companies.
The University also holds professional recognition from eleven British professional bodies which represent a variety of industries, ranging from accounting to marketing, ensuring teaching is in line with industry standards. They have three active research centres which are respected for their international impact.