Strategy 2024 to 2029

"Current and future leaders need not only traditional business skills but also the ability to guide their organisations through a landscape of interconnected global and local challenges and opportunities, from geopolitical risks and fast-paced technological change to an accelerating climate crisis. 

Business schools are vital for developing the knowledge, skills, and leadership needed to find innovative solutions to such challenges, and for effective economic, environmental, and societal stewardship in an uncertain world.

However, business school education needs to change fundamentally. To realise its full potential in tackling the challenges we face as individuals, organisations, and societies, we must unite critical thinkers from Economics, Finance, and Management with colleagues across the University to collaborate and engage with private, public, and third-sector organisations.

In August 2023, the former School of Economics and Finance and School of Management merged to create the University of St Andrews Business School, the largest school in the University. The Business School prioritises education excellence, world-leading research, and purposeful partnerships, driven by empowered people.

The School and its three departments – Economics, Finance, and Management – build on the strengths of the former Schools, which consistently ranked among the top in the UK. It is also uniquely St Andrews – world-leading, diverse, digital, sustainable, and entrepreneurial.

The University of St Andrews Business School boasts a vibrant community of more than 2,000 students and over 100 staff members. 

From 2027, the Business School will join the world-leading School of International Relations in taking up residence in New College on the historic former site of Madras College in central St Andrews. 

As the first new college at the University of St Andrews in almost 300 years, the two Schools will form the core of an interdisciplinary ecosystem within the University for research and teaching focused on addressing global and local challenges. 

Excellence and quality are at the heart of everything we do at the University of St Andrews and underpin the University’s unique convening power, which has drawn brilliant minds to our corner of North East Fife for seven centuries. Embedded in this exceptional environment, we are a Business School like no other.

Read on to learn more about our high-level strategy and priorities. As a new School, it is a living strategy which will evolve."