1.
Stanford Graduate School of Business
- Stanford
In June 2006, the School announced a dramatic change to its curriculum model.
The new model, dubbed "The Personalized MBA Education", has four focus points.
First, it aims to offer each student a highly customized experience by offering
broader menus of course topics and providing personal course-planning mentoring
from Stanford Business School faculty advisors. Second, the new program attempts
to deepen the school’s intellectual experience through several smaller,
high-impact seminars focused on critical analytical thinking. Third, the new
program will increase global business education through both new course options
and requiring international experience from all students.
2.
Harvard School of Business MBA
Founded in 1908, HBS started with 59 students. Once it innovated the case method
of research and teaching in 1920, HBS ramped up the class size which reached 500
students during the decade. In 1926, the school moved from the Cambridge side of
the Charles River to its present location in Allston, hence the custom of
faculty and students referring to the rest of Harvard University as "across the
river." Women were first admitted to its regular two-year Master in Business
Administration program with the Class of 1965.
2.
Tuck School of Business Administration -
Darmouth
The Amos Tuck School of Business Administration is the graduate business school
of Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire, United States of America.
Founded in 1900, Tuck is the oldest graduate school of business in the US, and
was the first institution to offer master's degrees in the field of business
administration. It is one of six Ivy League business schools, and it
consistently ranks in the top ten of national business school rankings.
4. Booth School of Business - University of
Chicago
The program allows students to largely structure their own course of study
subject to the constraint of a broad set of requirements. This is in contrast to
other top-tier business schools, which impose a cohort or learning team system
that includes coursework to be completed in a pre-determined order. The program
differentiates itself by allowing students the flexibility to construct a
program of study that is tailored to their needs, and can be as broad or deep as
they choose. There is only one required course for full-time program students:
LEAD (Leadership Effectiveness and Development), which students take in their
first quarter. LEAD focuses on the fundamental skills of leadership: motivating
people, building relationships, and influencing outcomes. Students in the full
time program may earn an International MBA, or IMBA, by studying abroad on
exchange with another business school, taking certain electives, and by
demonstrating oral proficiency in a second, non-native language.
5. Wharton School - University of Pennsylvania
Wharton School's differentiation lies in its 19 majors, 250+ world-renowned
faculty members, 11 academic departments, nearly 200 electives, 24 research
centers and initiatives, and a strong alumni network. It has the largest
elective offerings[22] and the largest alumni network of any business school.The
school offers two paths, an MBA for full-time students and an MBA for
executives. Students can elect to pursue double majors or individualized majors.
During their first year, all students pursue a required core curriculum that
covers traditional management disciplines—finance, marketing, statistics, and
strategy—as well as the leadership, ethics, and communication skills needed at
senior levels of management. Students pick electives in the second year.
6. Darden School of Business - University
of Virginia
7. Kellogg Graduate School of Management -
Northwestern University
8. Columbia University MBA
9. Johnson School - Cornell University
10. Yale University MBA
Master of Business Administration (MBA)
The Master of Business Administration (MBA) is a master's degree in business
administration, which attracts people from a wide range of academic disciplines.
The MBA designation originated in the United States, emerging from the late 19th
century as the country industrialized and companies sought out scientific
approaches to management. The core courses in the MBA program are designed to
introduce students to the various areas of business such as accounting,
marketing, human resources, operations management, etc. Students in some MBA
programs have the option to select an area of concentration and focus
approximately one-third of their studies in this area.
Accreditation bodies exist specifically for MBA programs to ensure consistency
and quality of graduate business education, and business schools in many
countries offer MBA programs tailored to full-time, part-time, executive, and
distance learning students, with specialized concentrations.
History of MBA
The Tuck School of Business, part of Dartmouth College, was the first graduate
school of business in the United States. Founded in 1900, it was the first
institution conferring advanced degrees (masters) in the commercial sciences,
specifically, a Master of Science in Commerce degree, the forebear of the modern
MBA degree.
In 1908, the Graduate School of Business Administration (GSBA) at Harvard
University was established; it offered the world's first MBA program, with a
faculty of 15 plus 33 regular students and 47 special students.
The University of Chicago Graduate School of Business first offered working
professionals the Executive MBA (EMBA) program in 1940, and this type of program
is offered by most business schools today.
In 1950, the first MBA degrees were awarded outside the United States by The
University of Western Ontario in Canada,[1] followed in 1951 with the degree
awarded by the University of Pretoria in South Africa. The Institute of Business
Administration, Karachi in Pakistan was established in 1955 as the first Asian
business school by the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. In
1957, INSEAD became the first European business school to offer an MBA program.
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