Warwick Business School has been ranked second in the world for teaching and researching sustainability, meaning it has not been outside the top three of the ranking for the last five years.

Clean capitalism magazine Corporate Knights revealed its annual Better World full-time MBA ranking and named WBS top in the UK and Europe and second in the world after assessing 160 programmes across the globe. 

WBS is the largest department of the University of Warwick and is also ranked in the world's top one per cent of business schools by the Financial Times. 

Andy Lockett, professor of strategy and entrepreneurship and dean of WBS, said: "Sustainability and the climate change crisis is the number one issue facing the world, and it will take the whole world coming together in partnership to solve it. 

"By teaching our students how sustainability should be at the heart of all decision-making in an organisation and giving them the practical tools to implement net-zero initiatives at their company, we hope a new generation of business leaders will drive the transformation needed to stop devastating climate change. 

"Our world-class research on the many issues in building a socially and environmentally sustainable world is also influencing policymakers and business, with many of our academics part of the Institute for Global Sustainable Development. 

"Warwick is committed to reaching net-zero by 2050 for all its emissions, including procured goods and services, with the additional milestone of decarbonising energy supply by 2030."

Business schools were assessed by Corporate Knights on key indicators that covered: course integration of sustainability issues, research publications on sustainability topics, sustainability-focused research institutes and centres, faculty gender diversity and racial diversity. 

Corporate Knights found that 69 per cent of the school's MBA modules include the UN's SDGs, while 79 per cent of WBS research also centres on sustainability issues. 

The ranking also looked into the diversity of business schools, with 27 per cent of faculty at WBS having ethnically diverse backgrounds.