Founded in 1796 as “the place of useful learning,” today the University of Strathclyde is a world-leading technological institution with over 23,000 students and 3500 staff from more than 100 nations.
In Strathclyde, we translate knowledge into high-impact outcomes that benefit business, industry, and society, and produce workplace-ready graduates in engineering, business, the sciences, and humanities. We are positioned among the top 20 research-intensive universities in the UK, and have forged collaborative connections between academia, business and industry, and the government and public sector through our distinctive triple helix approach. These relationships enable us to contribute to international multidisciplinary challenges including improving health, transforming energy, setting new standards in manufacturing, and shaping future cities. While our reputation and influence are global, we are an institution firmly grounded in the heart of Glasgow.
We have created a thriving innovation ecosystem around our campus, which supports the translation of new knowledge into impactful commercial applications by connecting our expertise to our industrial partners. At the centre of this ecosystem is the Glasgow City Innovation District, launched by Strathclyde in 2019 as Scotland’s first innovation district. The District is a hub for entrepreneurship, research, and collaboration, having already attracted a dense community of over forty leading innovative organisations and centres that have created significant new jobs and investment. Strathclyde is also an anchor university for the National Manufacturing Institute of Scotland (NMIS), an industry-led international centre of manufacturing expertise led by the Scottish Government in partnership with its enterprise and skills agencies.
Strathclyde is a multi-award-winning university. Our achievements in research, collaborative innovation, and education have been recognised through several high-profile awards, including:
- Times Higher Education UK University of the Year 2019 and 2012.
- Times and Sunday Times Good University Guide Scottish University of the Year 2020.
- Times Higher Education Widening Participation Initiative of the Year 2019
- Queen’s Anniversary Prize for Higher and Further Education 2019
Strathclyde Business School (SBS) is one of four faculties forming the University of Strathclyde, a leading international technological university. The renowned SBS has established a number of international centres around the world and its subject departments and specialist units collaborate to provide a dynamic, fully rounded and varied programme of specialist and cross-disciplinary courses. SBS is a triple accredited business school, holding accreditation from the international bodies, AMBA, AACSB and EQUIS. It also holds the Small Business Charter Gold Award – joining an elite group of institutions at the forefront of entrepreneurship in the UK. SBS has a reputation for research excellence: based on the REF (Research Excellence Framework) 2014 GPA scores, the Times Higher Education ranked us first in Scotland and in the top 10 business schools in the UK for its research. Times Higher Education also ranked us 3rd in the UK for Impact of our business research, based on the REF’s GPA scores, a measure of how the research impacts on practise in business.