Undergraduate
BA French
Lead
College
Royal Holloway
Royal Holloway,
founded in 1885, is one of the University of London’s six
largest Colleges and is home to more than 6,000 undergraduate
and postgraduate students on over 100 different degree courses.
Its students come from all areas of the United Kingdom and
from more than 60 other countries.
Royal Holloway
is one of only a few colleges nationally which is allowed
to use the ‘Royal’ title. Its full name was Royal Holloway
and Bedford New College, a name which reflects a long and
distinguished history: in 1985 two colleges of the University
of London, Bedford and Royal Holloway, came together to form
the present college. Bedford College was founded in 1849 as
a university college for women. Royal Holloway opened in 1886
as a women's college, named after Thomas Holloway, its founder.
Male undergraduates were admitted for the first time in 1965.
Its campus is
located within the Thames Valley corridor, which is host to
many successful international companies, including Proctor
& Gamble, Morgan Crucible, and Siebe.
Royal Holloway
is responsible for the MBA and Postgraduate Diploma in International
Management and the BA degrees in French, German and Italian
for External students.
School of Management
For the School
of Management at Royal Holloway, proximity to and partnership
with such major international industries are absolutely vital.
Closely involved with the School, they have played a critical
role in the design of the MBA programme.
The School of
Management, now one of Royal Holloway’s largest departments,
gives high priority to original research in international
business, and the deep understanding of the subject that follows
is reflected in its teaching of management studies. All staff
members are active researchers, and the publication of their
findings in books and articles is a key part of their professional
work.
In developing
this MBA, the School has drawn on its experience of working
with managers in industry, gained through running management
development courses for many well-known companies. Central
to the School’s educational method, is the study of different
organisations and practices in different countries, and at
different periods. This comparative perspective is particularly
appropriate to the level of thinking required of postgraduate
study.
The School is
also host to the Centre for Asia Pacific Business Research,
which now supervises a number of research and publications
projects. The Asia Pacific Business Review, edited within
the Centre, represents a major initiative in the field of
management studies.
