Cranfield University is a world-class academic institution famed for its market-facing applied research and development, high quality post-graduate teaching, and consultancy services. Cranfield University academic and research work benefits some 1,500 national and international organisations each year, including the Government of the United Kingdom, the European Commission and the United Nations. The University has a long history of working closely with industry and has built extensive lasting relationships with the business world. University staff have extensive experience in government, business, humanitarian and development sectors, disaster management, defence, security and resilience. Cranfield University is widely recognised for the quality of its academic work. In the recent Financial Times Ranking of executive education providers, Cranfield School of Management was ranked as top UK Business School, and 7th in the world for customised executive development. The University has twice been awarded the Queen's Anniversary Prize for Further and Higher Education, a national honours programme that recognises the high-quality work carried out at universities across the UK. The most recent award was for extensive work by Cranfield University in international capacity development. Cranfield University is committed to international development, and welcomes opportunities to increase its international development activities. Please contact the Resilience Centre at ResilienceCentre@cranfield.ac.uk for more details or if you wish to discuss potential collaboration or other opportunities.

Mission

They are creating leaders in technology and management, unlocking the potential of people and organisations by partnering with business and governments to deliver transformational research, postgraduate education and professional development.

Creating leaders in technology and management
 
Cranfield's distinctive expertise is in our deep understanding of technology and management and how these work together to benefit the world.

Their education portfolio is renowned for its relevance to business and industry. They are the largest UK provider of master's-level graduates in engineering and offer a flagship MBA, extensive world-class customised executive education and professional development programmes. Their work informs government policy and leads the way in producing cutting edge new technologies and products in partnership with industry.

The research and consultancy they carry out for industry, government and business provides their students with a real-world learning environment, allowing them to develop as professionals and then transfer their knowledge to the global economy. This has always been the 'Cranfield way' but it has never been more important than in today's world.