A business school is a higher education institution or professional school that teaches courses leading to degrees in business administration or management. A business school may also be referred to as school of management, management school, school of business administration, college of business, or colloquially b-school or biz school. A business school offers comprehensive education in various disciplines related to the world of business and management.
The Wharton School is the business school of the University of Pennsylvania, a private Ivy League research university in Philadelphia. Established in 1881 through a donation from Joseph Wharton, a co-founder of Bethlehem Steel, the Wharton School is the world's oldest collegiate business school. It is one of six Ivy League Business Schools and a member of the M7, an informal network of business schools regarded as among the most prestigious in the United States. The Wharton School is the business school which has produced the highest number of billionaires in the US.
The Stanford Graduate School of Business is the graduate business school of Stanford University, a private research university in Stanford, California. Stanford GSB is a member of the M7, an informal network of business schools regarded as among the most prestigious in the United States. For several years it has been the most selective business school in the United States, admitting only about 6% of applicants.
The Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University is the graduate business school of Northwestern University, a private research university in Evanston, Illinois. Kellogg is part of the M7, an informal network of business schools recognized as having elite MBA programs, regarded as among the most prestigious in the United States.
The University of Chicago Booth School of Business is the graduate business school of the University of Chicago, a private research university in Chicago, Illinois. Founded in 1898, Chicago Booth is the second-oldest business school in the U.S. and is associated with 10 Nobel laureates in the Economic Sciences, more than any other business school in the world. The school has the third-largest endowment of any business school. Chicago Booth is considered part of the M7, an informal network of business schools recognized as having elite MBA programs, regarded as among the most prestigious in the United States.
The Amos Tuck School of Business Administration at Dartmouth College is the graduate business school of Dartmouth College, a private Ivy League research university in Hanover, New Hampshire. The school offers only a Master of Business Administration degree program.
The Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management is the graduate business school of Cornell University, an Ivy League university located in Ithaca, New York. Founded in 1946, the school was renamed in 1984 to honor Samuel Curtis Johnson, founder of S.C. Johnson & Son, following a landmark $20 million endowment from his family which was the largest gift ever made to a business school at the time. In 2017, Herbert Fisk Johnson III of S. C. Johnson & Son contributed $150 million to the school and the newly established Cornell SC Johnson College of Business, resulting in the college's renaming.
The Yale School of Management is the graduate business school of Yale University, a private research university in New Haven, Connecticut. The school awards the Master of Business Administration (MBA), MBA for Executives (EMBA), Master of Advanced Management (MAM), Master's Degree in Systemic Risk (SR), Master's Degree in Global Business & Society (GBS), Master's Degree in Asset Management (AM), and Ph.D. degrees, as well as joint degrees with nine other graduate programs at Yale University. The Yale School of Management is one of six Ivy League Business Schools.
IESE Business School is a Catholic graduate business school at the University of Navarra. It was established in Barcelona in 1958 by Opus Dei. From 1963, in collaboration with Harvard Business School, it offers a two-year Master of Business Administration degree, an executive MBA, and executive education courses. It has other campuses in Madrid, Munich, New York City and São Paulo.
The Sasin Graduate Institute of Business Administration of Chulalongkorn University is a graduate business school located in Bangkok, Thailand and is affiliated with Chulalongkorn University. Sasin is AACSB accredited and was the first business school in Thailand to achieve this recognition in 2010. The school is also EQUIS accredited and also achieved this status in 2010. Sasin was founded in 1982 through a collaboration among Chulalongkorn University, the Kellogg School of Management and the Wharton Business School. It was previously known as the Sasin Graduate Institute of Business Administration of Chulalongkorn University.
The UBC Sauder School of Business is the business school of the University of British Columbia. The faculty is located in Vancouver on UBC's Point Grey campus and has a secondary teaching facility at UBC Robson Square downtown. UBC Sauder has been accredited by AACSB since 2003. The current Dean is Darren Dahl.
WHU – Otto Beisheim School of Management is a private German business school with campuses in Vallendar and Düsseldorf, Germany. As of September 2024, there are 2,007 students at WHU, about 251 employees and 59 professors.
The Wake Forest University School of Business is the business school of Wake Forest University, a private research university in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. It offers undergraduate programs to around 1,314 students, as well as management-related masters programs. The school is accredited by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges and the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business, and has supplemental accounting accreditation by the latter agency. It has a second campus in Charlotte, North Carolina.
A JD–MBA is a dual degree program in which students jointly earn Juris Doctor and Master of Business Administration degrees. The programs are commonly offered in the United States and Canada by universities' graduate business and law schools. They allow students to use credits from certain classes in one degree to count for course requirements at the other degree. This allows students to complete both the three-year JD and two-year MBA programs in four years, not the five years the degrees would take if done consecutively.
The Guanghua School of Management, Peking University (北京大学光华管理学院) is the business school of Peking University, a public university in Beijing, China.
Tsinghua University School of Economics and Management (清华大学经济管理学院) is the management school of Tsinghua University in Beijing, China. The school offers undergraduate, master, doctoral, and many executive education programs, with a total enrollment of more than 3,000 students.
The Segal Design Institute is a design thinking institute at Northwestern University. Segal operates within the McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science and is dedicated to the study of human-centered design at the undergraduate and graduate level.
Graduate real estate education is the study of real estate development at the graduate school level. It has taken many forms, giving rise to various educational models in different countries.
Leaders for Global Operations (LGO) is a Dual Degree Engineering MBA program offered by Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), sponsored by the MIT Sloan School of Management (MBA) and MIT School of Engineering . MIT Leaders for Global Operations program ranks 1st in the U.S. News & World Report for 2022's MBA programs in operations and production, 5th overall, and 1st for best engineering school.
