Cranfield University is a British postgraduate and research-based university specialising in science,engineering, technology and management. It contains two campuses; the main campus is at Cranfield, Bedfordshire, and the second is the Defence Academy of the United Kingdom atShrivenham, southwest Oxfordshire. The main campus is unique in the United Kingdom for having an operational airport (Cranfield Airport) next to it. The airport facilities are used by Cranfield University's own aircraft in the course of aerospace teaching and research.
As the university is postgraduate, direct comparison with undergraduate institutions is difficult. Some key facts and figures are:
Cranfield's staff:student ratio is second among UK universities.
Cranfield School of Management was ranked 3rd best European Business School within the UK and 13th within Europe in 2008. Its MBA is ranked 37th in the world according to the Economist Intelligence Unit (2013).The Financial Times ranked Cranfield's MBA 38th best in the world in 2013.
54% of all aerospace engineering postgraduates and 25% of all agricultural and environmental sciences postgraduates in the UK graduate at Cranfield.
over 10% of the UK's engineering and sciences PhDs are awarded by Cranfield.
Cranfield has received the Queen's Anniversary Prize three times: in 2005 for Further and Higher Education for the Fellowship in Manufacturing Management (FMM) programme; in 2007 for its role in humanitarian demining; and in 2011 for contribution to aviation safety through research and training in accident investigation.
Students on Cranfield's Global Security programme were awarded the Imbert Prize in 2006, 2008 and 2009 for the development of ideas for the advancement of risk and security management in the UK.
