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The Strathclyde Business School (SBS) is one of four faculties forming the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow, Scotland.Founded in 1973, but tracing its history back to the establishment of the Royal College of Science and Technology's Department of Industrial Administration in 1947, the school is located on Cathedral Street within the John Anderson campus of the university.
University of Strathclyde: Glasgow: Chartered university: 1964 (foundation 1796) 24,860: 2,010: The Place of Useful Learning: The Royal College of Science and Technology was granted university status by royal charter in 1964, although the precursor Anderson Institute can be traced back to 1796 and the name Anderson's University was used between ...
The John Anderson Campus, the main campus of The University of Strathclyde, is in Glasgow, Scotland. The campus is self-contained in its own area which straddles the Townhead and Merchant City districts on the north eastern side of the city centre, while being only minutes from the M8 Motorway , George Square and is located midway between Queen ...
University of Strathclyde Motto The Place of Useful Learning Type Public Established 1796 (Andersonian Institute) 1964 (university status by royal charter as University of Strathclyde) Endowment £42.2 million (2023) Budget £487.4 million (2022/23) Chancellor The Lord Smith of Kelvin Principal Professor Sir Jim McDonald Convenor of the Court Dame Sue Bruce Academic staff 2,010 (2022/23 ...
By the end of the decade the number of Scottish Universities had doubled. New universities included the University of Dundee, Strathclyde, Heriot-Watt, and Stirling. From the 1970s the government preferred to expand higher education in the non-university sector and by the late 1980s roughly half of students in higher education were in colleges.
The Wolfson Centre is an academic building within the city of Glasgow, Scotland and part of the University of Strathclyde's John Anderson Campus.. The structure, completed in 1972 houses the Department of Biomedical Engineering, and is a celebrated example of Brutalist architecture within the city, [1] and is protected as a Grade B listed building.
The James Weir Building was designed by Peter Williams of the local architectural firm Shanks, Wylie and Underwood (Williams later designed other prolific academic buildings in the area such as the Met Tower and the Central College of Commerce) and was constructed over the period 1956–1964 in two distinct phases as a north eastern extension to the Royal College Building, which allowed the ...
The Graham Hills Building is a major building on Strathclyde University's John Anderson Campus, located in Glasgow, Scotland.The structure, originally known as Marland House, was completed in 1959 by the General Post Office (GPO) and was acquired by the university from the GPO's successor – British Telecom (BT) in 1987.