Oxford University, Saïd Business School

Age: 22

History: Established in 1996, the Saïd Business School is one of Europe's fastest-growing management schools.

Address: A state-of-the-art building beside Oxford rail station, close to the historic city centre. The address is Saïd Business School, Park End Street, Oxford, OX1 1HP

Ambience: The School is fully integrated into Oxford University and draws on Oxford's strengths in subjects such as anthropology, economics, international relations, law, politics, and psychology.

Vital statistics: In the prestigious ranking of full-time MBA programmes compiled by the Financial Times and published in January 2012, the School’s MBA was ranked 20th in the world. The Oxford Executive MBA is ranked 29th in the Financial Times’ Global EMBA ranking in 2011. The School is ranked 7th worldwide in the FT's combined ranking of executive education programmes (May 2012) and is ranked 10th in the European Business School ranking (Dec 2011). The one-year MBA programme is ranked in BusinessWeek’s top 20 business schools outside the USA (Nov 2010)

Added value: Saïd Business School is fully integrated into one of the world’s greatest universities. This allows it to draw on Oxford’s strengths across a range of subjects, including economics, law, sociology, psychology, politics and international relations. Some of these interactions are informal, while others are formalised, whether in the Oxford Man Institute, or the Oxford Centre for Entrepreneurship and Innovation.

Easy to get into? To enter the full-time MBA programme, you need a 2:1 or a first in your degree, a high GMAT score and at least three years' work experience. Applicants without a degree are still considered. To enter the Executive MBA programme, you need a good undergraduate degree or relevant professional qualification, significant work experience (Including at least five years' managerial experience), and a GMAT score too. Both programmes require an IELTS or TOEFL score if English is not your first language.

Student profile: The average age on the full-time MBA is 29, and the ratio of men to women is around 3:1. Europeans make up 20 per cent of students, with 31 per cent hailing from North America, 30 per cent from Asia, four per cent from Australasia. 95 per cent of the students in the programme are from outside the UK

On the Executive MBA typically there are around 23 countries represented with 40 per cent coming from North America, 15 per cent from Europe, 20 per cent from the UK.

Gurus: Professors Tim Jenkinson, private equity; Peter Tufano, consumer finance, risk management and corporate financial engineering, and mutual funds; Alex Nicholls, fair trade, social entrepreneurship and social innovation; Tomo Suzuki, accounting standards and socio-economic accounting; Colin Mayer, regulatory systems for utilities; Steve Woolgar, impact of technology on societies, Linda Scott: marketing, culture and society culture and global markets branding and communications and Islamic branding; Steve New, supply chain management, operations management, process improvement, healthcare management; Bent Flyvbjerg, major programme management.

Cost: The Executive MBA is £52,000, MBA is £37,500.

Who's the boss? Peter Tufano is the Peter Moores Dean and Professor of Finance at Saïd Business School

Prospectus: +44 (0)1865 278804; www.sbs.oxford.edu/mba; emba-enquiries@sbs.ox.ac.uk; mba-enquiries@sbs.ox.ac.uk