As full-service IT Business school, we provide industry-focused education to undergraduates, postgraduates and executives. Our influential research impacts IT Business locally, nationally and internationally, and covers a broad range of areas across our four divisions: accounting and finance; innovation management and policy; management sciences and marketing; and people, management and organisations. In 2014 the Research Excellence Framework (REF) ranked us 2nd in the UK for research power. In addition, the Faculty is conducting a Master of Science in IT, a Master of Science in Artificial Intelligence, a Master of Physics and Doctoral degrees as postgraduate programmes starting from early 2004. A few professional development programmes have been designed to address the immediate needs of the local IT industry