Saturday, September 24, 2011

HISTORY OF MBA

The first graduate school of business in the United States was the Tuck School of Business, part of Dartmouth College Founded in 1900, it was the first institution conferring advanced degrees  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 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. There is M7 peer recognition for top MBAs.
The University of Chicago Booth School of Business first offered working professionals the Executive MBA (EMBA) program in 1943,first available in permanent campus in three continents  and this type of program is offered by most business schools today.
In 1950, the first MBA degrees awarded outside the United States were by The University of Western Ontario in Canada followed in 1951 with the degree awarded by the University of Pretoria in South Africa In 1957, INSEAD became the first European business school to offer an MBA program In 1986, the Roy E. Crummier Graduate School of Business at Rollins College (Florida) was the first MBA program to require every student to have a laptop computer in the classroom.
The MBA degree has been adopted by universities worldwide, and has been adopted and adapted by both developed and developing countries

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