regional enterprise partnerships provide the capacity to make a highly visible difference for students , business and local communities , in addition to providing the platform for its international ambitions . In the most recent Leiden Ranking ( 2015 ), the Faculty ( inclusive of social sciences ) was ranked 34th in the UK , 102nd in Europe and 234th in the World for its research excellence based on citations .
Plymouth Business School ( PBS ) resides in the Faculty of Business and is home to approximately 110 academic staff . It has developed as a centre of excellence of innovative and transformative business education with a market-leading , flexible and entrepreneurial portfolio of values-based business and management programmes and extra-curricular learning opportunities . Thus , PBS enhances especially graduate students who are entrepreneurially minded ; expert at research and analytics ; self-confident and willing to challenge convention and to ask ‘ big questions ’; informed about sustainability ; globally aware and competent ; able to continuously adapt , learn and to become digitally competent and as future global leaders to understand the importance of ethical human behaviours .
The School is home to the Futures Entrepreneurship Centre , which is embedding entrepreneurship across the curriculum , offering support for business start-up and providing valuable outreach activity and networks into the regional community . In addition , PBS recently launched the Centre for Sustainable Philanthropy . This Centre develops a new portfolio in the field of philanthropy and fundraising , leading fundraising policy and practice nationally and internationally .
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