This list of Ivy League business schools outlines the six universities of the Ivy League that host a business school. The creation of business schools at Ivy League universities occurred over a period of nearly a century, beginning with the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, founded in 1881 by Joseph Wharton, which was the first collegiate (undergraduate) business school in the world. [1] In 1900, the Tuck School at Dartmouth was founded as the world's first graduate school of business; and in 1921, Harvard Business School became the first business school to offer the MBA degree.
Two Ivy League institutions, Brown University and Princeton University, do not have business schools and three Ivy League institutions, Columbia University, Harvard University, and University of Pennsylvania have M7 business schools, along with Stanford University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and the University of Chicago. [2]
School name | Host institution | Location | Image | Degree programs offered | Year founded |
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Columbia Business School | Columbia University | New York City, New York | ![]() | MPhil, MS, MBA, EMBA, PhD | 1916 |
Harvard Business School | Harvard University | Allston, Massachusetts | ![]() | MBA, PhD, DBA | 1908 |
Johnson School (grad) Dyson School (undergrad) | Cornell University | Ithaca, New York | ![]() | BS, MS, MPS, MBA, EMBA, PhD | 1909 |
Tuck School of Business | Dartmouth College | Hanover, New Hampshire | ![]() | MBA | 1900 |
Wharton School | University of Pennsylvania | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania | ![]() | BS Econ, MBA, EMBA, PhD | 1881 |
Yale School of Management | Yale University | New Haven, Connecticut | | MBA, EMBA, PhD | 1976 |
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