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We are delighted to announce that Raymond Xiang Zheng, from our Full-time MBA Class of 2025, has been named one of Poets & Quants' 2025 Best & Brightest MBAs.

On 31st January our Postgraduate Careers Service hosted the final of our MBA Case Interview Competition, proudly supported by our new sponsors this year, Curzon Consulting.

Alliance Manchester Business School (AMBS) hosted its highly anticipated Venture Capital Investment Competition (VCIC) final on Friday, November 15.

Engineers in Business Fellowship (EIBF), the charity that promotes the importance and value of business education for engineers, announced today that Alliance Manchester Business School has been added to the list of approved schools for their Sainsbury Management Fellows (SMF) Scholarships for engineers and scientists.

A team of MBA students from Alliance Manchester Business School won the Emerging Markets Prize worth £7000 at the recent Climate Investment Challenge at Imperial College London.

MBA Alumni Relations and the MBA Programmes team were delighted to welcome 125 alumni and students to Alliance MBS recently (Thursday, 7 December) for our annual MBA Fireside Chat and Christmas Networking Event.

Listen back to a webinar with AMBA on how we teach sustainability on our Full-time MBA programme.

Studying an MBA is a huge financial decision, we want to show you how achievable receiving a scholarship can be.

Find out more about the process of making it to the European final of the Venture Capital Investment Competition

A group of students from the Full-time MBA class of 2023 took part in the Venture Capital Investment Competition towards the end of 2022. This competition is the world’s largest venture capital competition with over 120 participating universities. Satyam Sancheti shares his experience from the competition.

A group of our Full-time MBA worked with Bendrigg Trust and their findings have been published in their latest report.

Our Full-time MBA students from the class of 2023 worked with not-for-profit organisation From Generation to Generation as part of their first consultancy project.

A group of Full-time MBA students completed their Not-for-Profit consultancy project with Cheshire West and Chester during their first term on the programme.

Every year our Full-time MBA students have the opportunity to take part in a range of competitions. Competitions are a great supplement to the academics of the MBA programme.

Introducing our student council for the Full-time MBA Class of 2023.

Alliance Manchester Business School (AMBS) is pleased to announce the return of our Full-time MBA Case Competition for the Class of 2023.

Three Full-time MBA students share their experience of an internship with Amazon during the summer months of the Full-time MBA programme.

A group of Full-time MBA students worked with Suicide Bereavement UK for their not-for-profit consultancy project. The client lead and students discuss how the three months working together went.

The Pankhurst Trust were one of the clients our Full-time MBA students worked with on their recent not-for-profit consultancy project. Both the client and students share insights into the experience.

One of our Full-time MBA not-for-profit consultancy groups this year worked with The National Museum of Computing. Their brief was to help the museum navigate through the Covid-19 pandemic.

Tarun, Rohit and Kayus from the Full-time MBA Class of 2012 have come together to start a podcast series talking about everything MBA.

A group of students from the Full-time MBA class of 2021 recently had a report of their findings from their work on the Commercial Business Project (CBP) published.

The Full-time MBA class of 2022 has elected its student council, meet the new team who are ready to hit the ground running.

Leah Petr who graduated from the Full-time MBA in 2020 recorded a podcast recently with The Modern MBA discussing her jump from T.V. to Fintech

With the class coming from all over the globe in the midst of a global pandemic, we caught up with Ishita Prabhu who flew from India to join our class in Manchester.

The full-time MBA team that worked with Ascendal Group are announced as the winners of the International Business Consultancy Project award at Alliance MBS.

The International Business Consultancy Project is the capstone of the Full-time MBA. This year, one team worked with the University's Graphene Engineering Innovation Centre (GEIC) to identify new opportunities in the energy storage market.

MBA alumnus Scott Kennedy discusses graduating from business school during a crisis in 2009.

The UK is in lockdown, but that didn’t stop our MBAs from marking the end of their 18-month MBA journey with a virtual celebration.

When you are researching which business school to choose there is so much choice. But where do you start? Enter: experiential learning.

Bianca Ponso Ferrari writes about her decision to pursue an MBA with a nursing background

In 2020, Manchester Young Professionals will be working with Alliance Manchester Business School on a series of events to provide business skills to their community members, including a scholarship for our Full-time MBA.

Stress is a part of any challenging degree and an MBA is no different. Here are some simple strategies to help you manage your stress levels.

Full-time MBAs hosted the second Born and Raised event, bringing together local entrepreneurs to talk about starting a business in Manchester.

The International Business Consultancy Project is dubbed the ‘jewel in the crown of the MBA’ at Alliance Manchester Business School, with students working on global projects

Navin Mahalingam shares his experiences of the first semester on the Manchester Full-time MBA

Welcome to the full-time MBA Class of 2021's Student Council

Dubai hosts one of Alliance Manchester Business School’s global centres, where MBAs learn about doing business in the Middle East

Our Full-time MBA gives students the opportunity to experience life as a consultant with real-life projects. Business Because interviewed three students past and present to find out more.

Maria Parpou from the Full-time MBA class of 1995 caught up with us to share anecdotes from her time studying the MBA and what her career looks like now 25 years later.

Before starting her MBA Alexandra worked for a start up non-profit organisation called Kupona Foundation. Not wanting to cut ties with the charity, Alexandra sits as an advisory board member alongside her MBA studies.

With International Women's Day taking place last week, we wanted to showcase the influential women here at Alliance Manchester Business School. We met with Hannah Davies, Full-time MBA Class of 2020 to find out about her passion for women in business both inside and outside the classroom.

Full-time MBA student Santiago Rojas organised the first Global Legal Hackathon in Manchester. Global Legal Hackathon is a non-profit organisation and its purpose is for law and tech professionals to come together and develop solutions to improve the legal industry worldwide.

The AMBS Case Study Competition is to replicate the case interview process for our Full-time MBA students. Our winning team gave us insights on the whole process that began in the Autumn term.

It is not often that two halves of a whole want to study an MBA, but to also want to study an MBA at the same time, in the same city is even rarer. Adri and Arturo are part of our MBA class of 2020 and came from Lima, Peru together to share their MBA experience.

Our new Full-time MBA students have arrived in Manchester to start a new and exciting chapter in their lives.

It’s competition season for our MBA Class of 2019. So far we’ve clinched first place in the Johnson & Johnson Case Competition, won the Entrepreneur’s Choice Award at 'Invest for Impact' in North Carolina (SVCIC) and reached various finals. Read more

Launched in 2016, the Alliance MBS Case Study Competition was introduced by the Postgraduate Careers Service to provide our MBA students with more rigorous preparation for case study interviews. The competition was renamed in 2017 in recognition of Lord Alliance’s generous £5,000 prize fund donation, which returned in 2018.

"Every person has a story to share, every story is unique in its own way and there is so much to learn." Manchester Matters is a student-led, 'Ted Talks' style event where our MBAs share stories that matter from all over the world – from ‘Peruvian cuisine’ to ‘Personal Intelligence’.

"Last year included some great moments and also some challenging times, but there was always a silver lining thanks to the friends we have gained during this journey."

"The Not-for-Profit Project is not just an academic exercise, it is a cultural immersion". How did a group of MBAs from India, China, Indonesia and the UK work together to help the Rainbow Clinic expand sustainably? Read about their experience here

This year over 80% of our Full-time MBA students completed internships. Not only was this a great opportunity to gain experience and skills, several students also had the chance to give back to the community.

This year, over 30% of our MBA cohort headed East for the Dubai Study Tour. Ryle Ortiz, Class of 2018 reveals what the class got up to in this dynamic destination.

Can an engineer make the cut in the world of private equity? Alex Redman, Full-time Class of 2018, reports on his internship at Palatine Private Equity.

Our new class of MBAs recently arrived in Manchester to start the next chapter in their lives. We caught up with some students to hear their thoughts.

Over the summer term, our Full-time MBA students build their own curriculum from a choice that includes electives, an internship or a business simulation project.

The Full-time MBA class of 2018 is now well in the swing of the summer term and an impressive 82% of the class are undertaking internships in the UK and internationally.

BeeOut, a student-run club for LGBT MBA students and ‘allies’, was launched in June.

Alex Redman, Full-time MBA Class of 2018, looks back on his favourite course on the MBA to date.

Rahul Shah, Class of 2017 reflects on the China and Dubai study tours, two of the elective options available on the Full-time MBA.

Adrian Keighley writes about his experience in the RAF and how he ended up studying an MBA with us at AMBS

The advent of digital is disrupting how businesses have traditionally provided service to its customers. Leading consulting firm Accenture was looking to better understand how this has impacted UK consumers: how have their expectations and needs changed? Do they now prefer using digital customer service channels to traditional channels? The company recruited a team of Manchester MBAs to help them investigate this key business challenge.

When I decided to do my MBA, I had several objectives in mind: I knew after working for a couple of years in the professional services industry that I wanted to broaden my horizons and develop a more commercial understanding of business. I also knew that I wanted to build on my professional network by working with people of different cultural backgrounds and experiences, and that the programme would help me achieve this. What I didn’t realize, however, was how truly transformational the experien