Four students from Anglia Ruskin’s University Lord Ashcroft International Business School (LAIBS) have won 3rd place in the national final of the prestigious Universities Business Challenge.
The LAIBS team made a strong showing amongst the 10 teams in the final held at IBM’s London headquarters with all teams in the lead at various points throughout the day. Eventually the team from Essex were narrowly beaten by teams from University of Sheffield and University College London.
“Having been so close to reaching the final last year, I can say that this performance by the Chelmsford team was certainly no fluke and to achieve it against teams from such a large number of leading UK universities shows the quality of students that we have here.
It’s fantastic that the Entrepreneurial University of the Year is once again showing what it can do!”Dr Robin Gowers, Senior Lecturer in Economics at Anglia Ruskin University
Business school leading the way in finance education
Students from Anglia Ruskin University (ARU) previously won the Universities Business Challenge in 2012, coming out on top against 67 other universities.
The ARU campus in Chelmsford is further expanding its business links with the recent launch of the Anglia Ruskin Finance Society. The Society has been established by students with support from academics within the Lord Ashcroft International Business School. It plans to hold regular talks and networking events on campus for professionals working in the finance sector.
This is the latest development from the Business School which recently opened a £160,000 Bloomberg Financial Markets Lab on the Chelmsford Campus. Anglia Ruskin has previously been recognised for its enterprise when it was named Entrepreneurial University of the Year 2014 by Times Higher Education.
The Lord Ashcroft International Business School (LAIBS)
The International Business School at ARU is a leading practice-based business school and is one of the largest business schools in the East of England. They are committed to business and management education and offer design bespoke work-based learning programmes aligning study to the needs of employee and organisation alike with an emphasis on learning in business about business.
Source [Essex County Standard] [Universities Business Challenge]
