A new survey has named Bradford University School of Management as a world leader.

A Financial Times poll of the top 50 part-time MBA programmes around the globe has put ten of the best in the United Kingdom - with Bradford the only business school from the north of England to make the grade.

The survey also reveals that graduates from the School are earning on average nearly £65,000 per year within three years of getting their MBA - a salary jump of a massive 77 per cent from when they started the course.

The results are in line with a survey of full-time MBA programmes published in January, which showed Bradford graduates enjoying an average increase of 91 per cent on their pre-MBA salary.

Dean of the School, Professor Arthur Francis, said the achievement was down to the quality of his staff and the students themselves.

He said: "Clearly we don't need to teach them anything about the value of investment in their education.

"The salary increase for executive MBAs, who continue working full-time while pursuing their degree, represents a payback of less than two years on their course fees - an extremely attractive investment opportunity."

Bradford has just launched a block-taught version of its Executive MBA, which will be delivered over eight, nine-day residential blocks at the School's Executive Education facility at Heaton Mount.

The first intake for the new course will be in September 2002.