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Welcome to Essex Business School
Enhance your career
We equip you with skills for the modern workplace. Whether you’re seeking graduate
employment or starting your own business, we offer bespoke careers advice and a range of
employability options to enhance your CV.
We're champions of responsible management and sustainable business. We use creativity
and innovation to drive organisations forward and make them better places to do business.
We’re a growing, ambitious and international community of more than 2,000 researchers,
students and entrepreneurs, ranked in the UK's top 20 (Association of Business Schools). Our
undergraduate and postgraduate courses equip you to research, question and challenge
assumptions. You learn from world-leading academics and practitioners, solving real-world
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