Foundation The City University Business School ('CUBS') was founded in 1966 as part of City University, London. Its MSc in Administrative Sciences began in 1967 and became the MBA in 1979. In 2002, following a donation from the Sir John Cass Foundation, the school moved to new premises in the
London Borough of Islington and changed its name to Cass Business School. This was part of a strategy formed by
Lord Currie of Marylebone, who had been appointed Dean the year before, to compete as an international business school in a market dominated by US universities. The School had previously been spread out across the City of London's mainly residential
Barbican Centre development. The School is now predominantly based across two main buildings in Bunhill Row and Finsbury Square.
Name change In July 2020, when
Sir John Cass' links to the Atlantic Slave Trade came to light the decision to rename the School was made, on the basis that continued use of the Cass name was incompatible with City's values of diversity and inclusion. In April 2021 it was announced that the School would be renamed Bayes Business School on 6 September 2021, after
Thomas Bayes, a nonconformist theologian and mathematician best known for his foundational work on conditional probability. Bayes is buried at Bunhill Fields in London, located near the business school. The name was adopted in 2021 following a consultation process, reflecting both the historical figure and the relevance of his work to modern data and decision-making. == Academic programmes ==