University of Connecticut School of Business

Founded in 1941, The Unviersity of Connecticut School of Business is the business school of the University of Connecticut (UConn) located in Storrs, Connecticut, US.

The school operates over four campuses: School of Business in Storrs (the main site housing the administrative and departmental side and the undergraduate and PhD programmes and some graduate programmes); Hartford (the site of The University of Connecticut Graduate Business Learning Center and serves most of the MBA courses); the Waterbury campus (offering the four-year bachelor’s degree programme with majors in business administration and business data analytics. It also offers the Part-time MBA degree and some graduate business certificate coursework) and Stamford (internships, field placements and jobs with companies and non-profit organisations headquartered in Fairfield county).

Undergraduate majors in business are as follows: "The Hartford Experience" includes business administration, business data analytics and financial management. "The Stamford Experience" comprises of business administration, business data analytics, digital marketing and analytics and financial management. "The Storrs Experience" offers accounting, finance (concentrations in corporate finance, valuation and portfolio management, or quantitative finance available), healthcare management, management (concentration in entrepreneurship available), management and engineering for manufacturing (MEM), management information systems (MIS), marketing (concentrations in digital marketing and analytics or professional sales leadership available) and real estate and urban economic studies. Finally, "The Waterbury Experience" consists of business administration and business data analytics.

In terms of graduate courses, the MBA is offered across Full Time, Part-Time and Executive options. Master's are offered in accounting, business analytics and project management, human resource management, financial risk management. There are also various certificates on offer for experienced professionals, and dual disciplines offered as: MBA/MS in business analytics and project management, MBA/MS in financial risk management, MBA/MS in human resource management. A PhD in business is also offered.

Research Centers at UConn cover various current business bases. They are: Center for International Business Education & Research; Center for Real Estate & Urban Economic Studies; Connecticut Center for Economic Analysis; Connecticut Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation; Connecticut Information Technology Institute; GE Global Learning Center;Family Business Program and the Treibick Electronic Commerce Initiative.

The UConn School of Business has been accredited by AACSB, the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business, since 1958.

Notable alumni include: Timothy J. Conway, the founder, chairman and CEO of NewStar Financial; Viren Kapadia, the President and CEO of Gyrus Systems and William S. Simon, Jr., Retired EVP and COO of Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.