Student Experience
Tackle real-life business projects, gain valuable professional experience during your placement year and find out what it is really like to be an Aston Business School student.
Our staff have established a reputation for developing innovative teaching methods, pioneering the use of gamification and creating games and simulations to make our students’ learning experience more rewarding. As well as extensive industry experience, some of our staff are responsible for writing the key textbooks used in their field.
Our students experience real-life business activities through initiatives such as module partnerships, delivering our in-house business and law clinics, working with charities such as The Prince’s Trust and engaging with organisations of all shapes and sizes – from start-up micro businesses to multinationals.
Our postgraduate students benefit from a professional development programme known as The Aston Global Advantage. This focuses thinking and actions on more elusive social and personal aspects of business, offering opportunities to work or study abroad.
Our graduates among the highest paid in the country five years after graduating, according to the 2022 Longitudinal Education Outcomes (LEO) data which shows that employed Aston University graduates have the 16th largest median salary overall five years after graduation at £34,800.
We’re part of an elite group of global business schools who hold the gold standard of ‘triple-crown’ accreditation from AACSB (Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business), AMBA (Association of MBAs) and EQUIS (European Quality Improvement System). 100% of our business research achieved the highest rankings of 3* or 4* and was judged to have delivered ‘outstanding’ or ‘very considerable’ external impact in the latest Research Excellence Framework.
We are the UK's second-largest city and located in the middle of the country, offering excellent travel links to Europe and great flight connections to the rest of the world. There are many interesting places within easy access, with London an hour and a half away by train and Stratford-Upon-Avon – home of Shakespeare – as well as Warwick Castle both less than an hour away.