Bayes Business School

Bayes Business School, formerly known as Cass Business School,^[1] is the business school of City St George's, University of London, located in St Luke's, just to the north of the City of London. It was established in 1966.

Bayes Business School

Former name	Cass Business School City Business School
Type	Undergraduate, postgraduate, executive education, research
Established	1966
Accreditation	AMBA, AACBS, EQUIS
Dean	André Spicer
Administrative staff	c. 500
Students	c. 4,200
Undergraduates	2,200+
Postgraduates	1,850+
Doctoral students	100
Location	London , England , United Kingdom 51.5220°N 0.0900°W / 51.5220; -0.0900
Campus	Urban
Website	www.bayes.citystgeorges.ac.uk

Bayes Business School is divided into the three faculties of actuarial science and insurance, finance, and management.^[2] It awards BSc (Hons), MSc, MBA, and PhD degrees and is one of around 100 schools globally to be triple accredited by the AMBA in the United Kingdom,^[3] EQUIS in Europe,^[4] the AACSB in the United States and the Triple accreditation.^[5]

History

The City University Business School was founded in 1966 as part of City University, London. Its MSc in Administrative Sciences began in 1967 and became the MBA in 1979.

In 2002, following a donation from the Sir John Cass Foundation, the school moved to new premises in the London Borough of Islington and changed its name to Cass Business School.^[6]

This was a component of a plan development by Lord Currie, who had been appointed dean the previous year, to compete as an international business school in a market dominated by US universities.

The school had previously been spread out across the City of London's mainly residential Barbican Centre development. Half of the £40 million in funding for the new building came from the reserves of City University.

Due to John Cass's links to slavery, the school was renamed Bayes Business School on 6 September 2021, after Thomas Bayes, a nonconformist theologian and mathematician best known for his foundational work on conditional probability.^[1]

Masters courses

The school teaches programmes including insurance and risk management, investment management, corporate finance, banking and International finance, quantitative finance, shipping, marketing, supply chain, energy, trade and finance, property valuation, mathematical trading, real estate, construction management, international accounting and finance, finance and investment, real estate investment, charity management, and business analytics.

The school's MBA is offered full-time through a one-year course, through a two-year part-time Executive MBA, or through a two-year modular Executive MBA.

In September 2007, the business school started the EMBA programme in collaboration with DIFC (Dubai International Financial Centre).

School rankings

Bayes Business School is now ranked 2nd in London, 6th in the UK, and 34th in Europe according to the Financial Times European Business School 2025 rankings. Bayes Business School has received the following rankings^[7]:

• Bayes Business School holds accreditation from AACSB, AMBA and EQUIS

• Bayes ranks 5th in the UK for business and management research. A total of 92 per cent of its research was rated as world-leading (4*) or internationally excellent (3*) (The Research Excellence Framework 2021)

• The School ranks 5th in the UK for Finance Research, and 8th in the UK for Management (ShanghaiRanking's Global Ranking of Academic Subjects 2024)

• Baye is 1st in Europe for Actuarial Science research (UNL Business School Actuarial Science Rankings 2024)

Notable alumni

The school's alumni association has more than 38,000 members in 160 countries.^[8]

• William Castell – Chairman of the Wellcome Trust; a director of General Electric and BP; former CEO of Amersham plc
• Peter Cullum – British entrepreneur
• Tobias Ellwood – Conservative Member of Parliament and chair of the Defence Select Committee
• George Brooksbank – CEO of Fairway Capital
• Stelios Haji-Ioannou – founder of easyGroup
• Tom Ilube philanthropist; physicist and chair of the RFU
• Bob Kelly – former CEO of Bank of New York Mellon, Mellon Financial Corporation and Wachovia Corporation^[9]
• Muhtar Kent – CEO of The Coca-Cola Company; former president and COO of Coca-Cola International and Executive Vice President of The Coca-Cola Company
• Jonathan Kestenbaum, Baron Kestenbaum (born 1959) - chief operating officer of investment trust RIT Capital Partners, and a Labour member of the House of Lords
• Liu Mingkang – former chairman of the China Banking Regulatory Commission^[10]
• Barrie Pettman, Baron of Bombie, co-founder and chairman emeritus of the Emerald Group Publishing; President Emeritus of Burke's Peerage^[11][12]
• Syed Ali Raza – president and chairman of the National Bank of Pakistan
• Set Aung – politician, economist and management consultant, incumbent deputy planning and finance minister of Myanmar
• Martin Wheatley – former chief executive of the UK Financial Conduct Authority
• Jeff Wooller – British accountant
• Ruth Yeoh – Malaysian environmentalist and businesswoman
• Jay Shetty – Internet Personality and Motivational Speaker
• Evan Edinger – American-born YouTuber based in London, England^[13]
• Jihan Abass – Kenyan entrepreneur, business woman, CEO and founder of Lami Insurance Technology and Griffin Insurance
• Nick Maughan – British investor and philanthropist.
• Sonya Barlow – Pakistani-British entrepreneur.