Vision and Strategy 2030

We are the University of business, practice and the professions.

Our refreshed Vision & Strategy 2035 builds on the achievements of Vision & Strategy 2030 and affirms our commitment to delivering outstanding education, impactful research at the frontier of practice, and deep engagement with the communities we serve.

Our Strategy Headlines

1. We build successful and fulfilling careers and develop leaders for the world of work

• Understanding, celebrating and empowering our students – the students who choose us, and whom we choose – and delivering enriching and personalised educational experiences
• Creating a diverse and vibrant community of learning that reaches far beyond the University and is sustained through powerful networks
• Providing relevant skills, attributes and approaches that enable our graduates to succeed in their future careers and life pathways.

2. We undertake research at the frontier of practice

• Fostering important, impactful and engaged research
• Educating professionals for whom evidence-based thinking is integral to their practice
• Challenging practice and redefining the professions.

3. We are a flexible, high-performing learning organisation

• Building a great place to work that is inclusive, supports wellbeing and is a fun place to be
• Creating an accountable, socially responsible, efficient and responsive organisation that can deliver this strategy
• Operating a robust and sustainable financial margin that ensures we have the space to achieve our mission.

4. We are open and outward-facing

• Comfortable with partnership and happy with co-creation – the opposite of an ivory tower
• Ambitious, innovative and risk-taking – not afraid to be different
• Embedded in London, a world capital and proud of our deep connections with the City of London.