TCD/IMI graduate school launches

Trinity College Dublin and the Irish Management Institute (IMI) are establishing a new graduate school of management, which they aim to have ranked in the top 25 globally within a decade.

The new graduate school will include the existing Trinity masters of business administration (MBA) and five part-time M.Sc degree programmes - in management practice, organisational behaviour, business administration, public sector strategic management and international business. An executive MBA programme currently being designed will be offered for the next academic year.

Entrants to the degree programmes will be required to have previous management experience in addition to academic achievements.

At the launch of the new school, Minister for Education and Science Mary Hanafin said the economy's success to date was due to the high standards of graduates.

"However, a world-class economy needs a world-class executive education system if it is to sustain itself in the long term. Management education is critical if our graduates are to become effective business leaders," Ms Hanafin said.

The new graduate school, which will have 50 staff, will be housed on the Trinity campus and the IMI's grounds in Sandyford. Trinity already collaborates with the IMI in its postgraduate degree programmes for business, which have 200 students.

The school is seeking funding for research projects. "There are many research projects in science and technology and there needs to be parallel research in management," said professor John Murray of Trinity's School of Business Studies.