Cass Business School "Financial Times" "Top MBAs for Finance 2017" ranked Cass 4th in the UK and 25th in the world. The school is divided into the three faculties of Actuarial Science and Insurance, Finance, and Management. It awards BSc (Hons), MSc, MBA and PhD degrees and is one of under 70 schools globally to be accredited by all of the AMBA in the United Kingdom, EQUIS in Europe, and the AACSB in the United States. The City Business School was founded in 1966. The school's MSc in Administrative Sciences began in 1967 and became the MBA in 1979. In 2002 the school
City, University of London its royal charter, becoming "The City University" to reflect the institution's close links with the City of London. In 1971 the Apollo 15 astronauts visited City and presented the Vice-Chancellor, Tait, with a piece of heat shield from the Apollo 15 rocket. In October 1995 it was announced that City University would merge with both the St Bartholomew School of Nursing & Midwifery and the Charterhouse College of Radiography, doubling the number of students in City's Institute of Health Sciences to around 2,500. The University formed a strategic alliance with Queen Mary, University of London, in April 2001. In May