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Executive Education Profile Publish Date 05/27/12

Cranfield University

School of Management

  • PROGRAM BASICS

      • Cranfield School of Management
      • Cranfield
      • Bedford, MK43 0AL
      • United Kingdom of Great Britain
      • Executive education run by for-profit entity? Yes
      • Status:
        • Public
      • Name: Cranfield Management Development Limited
      • Executive nondegree open enrollment programs offered: 54
      • Executive non-degree custom programs offered: 209
      • Number of attendees previous academic year: 5,422
      • Does school have a separate Executive Education center/centers? Yes
      • Year building opened: 1996
      • Number of classrooms: 10
      • Does the school offer temporary housing for executive education participants?: Yes
    • Graduate business school is accredited by:

        • Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB)
        • Association of MBAs (AMBA)
        • EQUIS
        • European Foundation for Mgt. Development (EFMD)
  • SCHOOL BASICS

      • Open-enrollment executive programs run in other countries: 1
      • Custom executive programs run in other countries: 107
      • Companies for which the school ran custom programs in previous year: 141
    • School partnerships with non-business schools:

      • Title: Top Leaders Programme
      • Partner(s): Hay Group
      • Title: Delivering Projects Profitably
      • Partner(s): Prendo
    • Graduate business school enrollment:

      • Total: 764
      • Full-Time MBA: 79
      • Executive MBA: 136
      • PhD Program: 65
      • Other graduate degree programs: Master of Finance, Other, Master of Human Resources, Master of Marketing
  • PROGRAM COSTS

    • Range of costs, open enrollment programs:

      • Low: $1,200.00
      • High: $24,490.00
  • CLASS PROFILE

      • Percentage of Executives who live/work within 45 miles: 15 %
      • Percentage of attendees who live/work abroad: 18 %
    • Percentage of Participants in open enrollment executive education programs are:

      • Female: 28 %
      • International : 18 %
      • Business owners: 5 %
      • Completely sponsored by their employers: 99 %
  • CLASS OFFERINGS

      • Title: Cranfield Business Leaders' Programme
      • Type of Course: General Management Development Executive Education Short Course
      • Course Length: 13 days
      • Estimated price (excluding travel and book fees): $21,294.00
      • Comments: The Cranfield Business Leaders' Programme is designed for executives with overall responsibility for a business unit, or who are in corporate positions with responsibility for influencing business unit strategy and performance.
      • Title: Cranfield Advanced Development Programme
      • Type of Course: General management development executive education short course
      • Course Length: 17 days
      • Estimated price (excluding travel and book fees): $24,492.00
      • Comments: The Cranfield Advanced Development Programme attracts senior managers who are moving or have recently moved into roles with business strategy (rather than purely functional) responsibility.
      • Title: Cranfield General Management Programme
      • Type of Course: General management development executive education short course
      • Course Length: 14 days
      • Estimated price (excluding travel and book fees): $20,514.00
      • Comments: The Cranfield General Management Programme is designed for senior executives wishing to work from a general management perspective, enabling them to move beyond their specialist area of expertise in order to add more value across the business.
      • Title: Accelerated Talent Development Programme
      • Type of Course: General management development executive education short course
      • Course Length: 14 days
      • Estimated price (excluding travel and book fees): $16,692.00
      • Comments: The Accelerated Talent Development Programme is for managers who usually implement rather than develop strategy. Participants are ambitious, talented individuals, who have the capability to become the business leaders of the future.
      • Title: High Performance Leadership
      • Type of Course: Executive development Short Course
      • Course Length: 10 days
      • Estimated price (excluding travel and book fees): $14,774.00
      • Comments: For senior executives who want to review their current approach to leadership and those looking for leadership development to support a recent/future promotion.
      • Title: The Business Growth and Development Programme
      • Type of Course: Executive education short course for owner managers
      • Course Length: 7 days
      • Estimated price (excluding travel and book fees): $15,173.00
      • Comments: This programme is for owner managers of businesses that have been in operation for at least 3 years and have a turnover between £0.5 and £20m.
      • Title: The Cranfield IT Leadership Programme
      • Type of Course: Executive Education short course for IT executives
      • Course Length: 8 days
      • Estimated price (excluding travel and book fees): $12,697.00
      • Comments: This programme is for IT executives who have a vital leadership role to play, both operationally and strategically in their organisations.
      • Title: Supply Chain Management Programme
      • Type of Course: Executive education short course for supply chain managers
      • Course Length: 5 days
      • Estimated price (excluding travel and book fees): $5,909.00
      • Comments: This programme is for managers and directors who are seeking new insights into how to align their supply chain to their markets in order to achieve competitive advantage.
      • Title: Sales Directors' Programme
      • Type of Course: Executive education short course for sales directors
      • Course Length: 4 days
      • Estimated price (excluding travel and book fees): $6,229.00
      • Comments: This programme is for sales directors, commercial directors, senior sales managers and senior account managers, who are managing sales teams.
      • Title: Women as Leaders
      • Type of Course: Executive education short course for women executives
      • Course Length: 3 days
      • Estimated price (excluding travel and book fees): $4,871.00
      • Comments: This programme is for experienced women managers and professionals from both public and private sectors who are striving to reach top positions.
    • International programs:

      • Title: Driving Operational Performance
      • Type of Course: Customised
      • Partner(s): Melbourne Business School
      • Year Established: 2009
      • Title: Executive Management Programme for Key Talent
      • Type of Course: Customised
      • Country: Slovenia/Spain
      • Partner(s): IESE
      • Year Established: 2007
      • Title: Basics in International Management
      • Type of Course: Customised
      • Country: Germany/USA/China
      • Year Established: 2004
  • FACULTY

      • Faculty employed by the B-school: 254
    • Full-time faculty:

      • Tenured: 90
      • Non-Tenured: 11
    • Adjunct/Visiting Faculty:

      • Tenured: 0
      • Non-Tenured: 149
    • Women on Faculty:

      • Tenured: 26
      • Non-Tenured: 3
    • Minority Faculty:

      • Tenured: 8
      • Non-Tenured: 0
    • International Faculty:

      • Tenured: 36
      • Non-Tenured: 7
    • Faculty with PhDs:

      • Tenured: 75
      • Non-Tenured: 9
  • TEACHING/ACADEMICS

    • Main teaching methods:

      • Case Study: 10 %
      • Distance Learning: 15 %
      • Experiential Learning: 25 %
      • Lectures: 25 %
      • Simulations: 5 %
      • Team Projects: 15 %
      • Other: 5 %
    • Faculty for executive education:

      • Full-time faculty (with tenure and/or permanent): 80 %
      • Full-time faculty (without tenure): 0 %
      • Adjunct faculty: 20 %
      • Other: 0 %
    • Percentage of faculty who are:

      • Female: 48 %
      • International: 38 %
  • TECHNOLOGY

      • Technology improvements in the last three academic years: Investment in ‘Networked Learning’ capability connecting learning communities to each other and to key management content: New ITunes U Channel; Creation of YouTube.edu web presence; Themed management web-content; New school website; Subscription based Knowledge Interchange Online. Campus-wide update to live HD video streaming for off-campus users; Classroom voting systems for instant polling; Upgrade of 50% of teaching rooms; Upgrade of School's TV studio and editing suite.
  • CONTACT INFORMATION