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Spend your semester at the University of Manchester, situated in the heart of the city and home to a vibrant and international student population.

Program Overview

About the Alliance Manchester Business School

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The Alliance Manchester Business School is the business school of the University of Manchester in Manchester, England. It provides education to undergraduates, postgraduates and executives across the globe.The University of Manchester was created in October 2004 by bringing together The Victoria University of Manchester and UMIST, two of Britain's most distinguished universities, to create a powerful new force in British higher education. Twenty Nobel Prize winners have either studied or conducted some of their work here, including Ernest Rutherford who is known for his work on splitting the atom. The University of Manchester has about 25,600 students and is home to approximately 7,400 international students from 180 countries. There are 10,407 staff employed by the University of Manchester, including more than 4,500 academic and research staff to provide you with a stimulating learning environment and the highest standard of teaching. The University has teaching and research in more subjects than any other single-site British university. Situated in the heart of Manchester, the campus has a mixture of traditional Victorian buildings and more modern architecture that sit comfortably alongside each other creating an exciting and eclectic environment.

 

Term Dates

The University of Manchester offers IBEX opportunities in fall and spring semesters.

  • Fall semester: mid-September to early-January. Students can arrange to complete courses in late December.
  • Spring semester: late-January to early-June

Dates are approximate and may be subject to change.

 

Housing and Living Costs

  • Housing: on-campus housing is available but students attending for one semester will not be able to choose a specific hall or the type of accommodation, but can only indicate a preference between a Self-Catered (no meal plan) or a Catered Hall (meal plan compulsory).  Costs range from £113 – £186/week. 
  • Food: approximately £35 – 60/week.  
  • Books and course materials: approximately £180/semester.
  • Local transportation: approximately £11/week.
  • Personal expenses: approximately £175/week.

Note: £ = British Pounds

Find out more about IBEX tuition, housing, and other logistics.

 

Language of Instruction

English

 

Student Services

The student services available to exchange students include:

  • Career services
  • Sports facilities
  • Student clubs and associations
  • International Society

Academic Information

If you are accepted to IBEX, you will attend two advising meetings to plan and revise your schedule: one individual advising meeting with NYU Stern Academic Advising and one group advising meeting with the NYU Stern Global Experiences team. As you build your academic schedule for your semester abroad, carefully review and consider the following course information.

 

IBEX Course Information

  • You may take a full semester of business classes while abroad on IBEX.
  • Note that the NYU credits you receive for a course are based on the conversion above, not the amount of credits you receive if you take the course on NYU's campus (as an example Texts and Ideas equivalent do not automatically transfer back as 4 credits).
  • Leave room for at least two general electives in your schedule. This allows you to:
    • Take interesting, location-specific courses not offered at Stern, and
    • Have more flexibility during the course registration process.
  • Reference the IBEX Course Guide: What you can or cannot take.
    • You can take a maximum of two classes per concentration.
    • Accounting courses cannot be taken for credit toward the Accounting or CPA majors/concentrations.
    • All IBEX grades will transfer back to NYU Stern as Pass/Fail.

 

Previously Approved Courses

  • Listed below are courses that were taken previously by Stern IBEX students and have already been approved for a specific NYU equivalent.
  • There is no guarantee that the courses listed here will be offered during the specific semester you study abroad. It is important to be flexible. Have a Plan A and Plan B and the space to take some electives.
  • If a course is already listed below as approved, it does not need to be reviewed again, unless you want to see if it will count towards a new requirement.

 

Finding New Courses

  • You are not limited to only taking the courses listed on this page.
  • If you see a course on Manchester’s website that you would like to take, but is not listed below, you must submit the syllabus to Stern’s Global Experiences team for approval.
  • Once Manchester publishes its confirmed courses for the semester you will be attending, you can revise your list as needed based on what is being offered.

 

List of Approved Courses

List of Approved Courses
*Please note that any pre-approved business course can also come back as a General Stern Elective
 
Course Title AbroadNYU CreditsCourse Equivalent at NYUSemester Taken
PHIL23002 Existentialism6Texts and IdeasSpring 2023
SOCY30171 Identity, Power & Modernity6Texts and Ideas Fall 2022
POLI30271 Political Morality and Dirty Hands6Texts and IdeasFall 2022

 RELT21111 Problems in Theology, Philosophy and Ethics: Evil

6Texts and IdeasFall 2022
BMAN32091 People Management and Change3General Stern ElectiveFall 2024

BMAN 20792 Technology, Strategy & Innovation

3General Stern ElectiveSpring 2024

 BMAN 30042 Human Resource Management

3General Stern ElectiveSpring 2024

 BMAN 30042 Fundamentals of Technological Change

3General Stern ElectiveSpring 2024

 BMAN 24442 Foundations of Strategy & Innovation

6General Stern ElectiveSpring 2024

 BMAN 24352 Marketing Communications in the Digital Age

6General Stern ElectiveSpring 2024

 BMAN 24362 Personnel Selection & Talent Management

6General Stern ElectiveSpring 2024
BMAN30211 Corporate Governance in Context3General Stern ElectiveFall 2022
UCIL21331 Developing an Entrepreneurial Mindset3General Stern ElectiveFall 2021
BMAN24111 Principles of Taxation3General Stern ElectiveFall 2020
BMAN30071 Share Prices and Accounting Information3General Stern ElectiveFall 2020
EDUC14051 Sociology of Education6General Non-Stern ElectiveFall 2022
ECON10262 Macroeconomics 23Advanced Economics ElectiveSpring 2025
ECON20032 Macroeconomics 43ECON-UB 11 Economics of Global BusinessSpring 2023
ECON20262 Macroeconomics 23ECON-UB 11 Economics of Global BusinessSpring 2023
ECON10252/10241 Macroeconomics 13ECON-UB 11 Economics of Global BusinessSpring 2023

BMAN 32141 Business IT Architecture

3Advanced Computing & Data Science ElectiveFall 2024
UCIL20132 Trust and Security in a Digital World: From Fake News to Cybercriminals3Advanced Computing & Data Science ElectiveSpring 2022
BMAN31152 Business Decision Analysis6Advanced Computing & Data Science Elective Spring 2022
BMAN31952 Digital Economy: Platforms, AI and The Business3Advanced Computing & Data Science ElectiveSpring 2022
BMAN11000 Software Application Design and Development6Advanced Computing & Data Science ElectiveFall 2021
BMAN30891 International Finance3FINC-UB 30 International Financial ManagementFall 2023

ECON30382 Mathematical Finance

3Advanced Finance ElectiveSpring 2025

BMAN30111 Advanced Corporate Finance

6

Advanced Finance Elective

Fall 2024

 BMAN 32261 Entrepreneurship and Venturing

6
Advanced Finance Elective


 

Fall 2023
BMAN20072 Investment Analysis3Advanced Finance ElectiveSpring 2023
Economic Analysis I: Firm Market and the Economy6Advance Finance Elective Fall 2022
BMAN30091 Financial Derivatives3FINC-UB 43 DerivativesFall 2022
BMAN30702 Corporate Contracting and Managerial Behaviour3Advanced Finance ElectiveSpring 2022
BMAN24102 Mergers & Acquisitions: Financial Perspectives3FINC-UB 50 Mergers, Acquisitions & RestructuringSpring 2022
BMAN31972 Entrepreneurship & Venturing6FINC-UB 61 Topics in Entrepreneurial Finance Spring 2022
BMAN20832/30021 Marketing3MKTG-UB 1 Introduction to MarketingSpring 2023, Fall 2023
BMAN24281 Marketing Management6MKTG-UB 1 Introduction to Marketing Fall 2021

BMAN20271 Consumer Behavior

6MKTG-UB 2 Consumer Behavior Fall 2022
BMAN31461 Retail Marketing3Advanced Marketing ElectiveFall 2022
RUSS10242 100 Years of Revolution: from Lenin's Soviet Union to Putin's Russia6Cultures & ContextsSpring 2025
ITAL31002 Narratives of Conflict After 19686Cultures & ContextsSpring 2025
CHIN30311 Religious and Political Ideologies of Modern China6Cultures & Contexts Fall 2023
JAPA13222 Empire and Culture in East Asia6Cultures & Contexts Spring 2023
BMAN11101 Fundamentals of Information Systems3INFO-UB 1 Info Tech in Business and SocietyFall 2021
BMAN30022 Strategy 3MGMT-UB 18 Strategic AnalysisSpring 2023
BMAN24291 Operations Management and Strategy3OPMG-UB 1 Operations ManagementFall 2022

UCIL20031/UCOL20022 Leadership In Action

3

 SOIM-UB 12 Professional Responsibility & Leadership (PRL)

Fall 2023
BMAN24261 Ethical Business6SOIM-UB 12 Professional Responsibility and Leadership (PRL) Fall 2023