The school offers seven undergraduate majors along with MS, MBA and Ph.D. programs. As of the 2014-2015 academic year, there were approximately 3500 undergraduate students and 1300 graduate students enrolled in the Isenberg School of Management.[7] As of 2017, the Isenberg School has nearly 44,000 alumni[8] in 72 countries.[9]
Historyedit
Business courses were first offered at the Massachusetts Agricultural College in the early years of the 20th century, expanding rapidly during the 1930s and 1940s in response to student demand.[10] The college's board of trustees established the School of Business Administration in 1947, and within seven years, it was conferring graduate degrees, including doctorates after 1967.[10]
In 1964, the school moved to its current building in the heart of the UMass Amherst campus.[11] In 1983, the School of Business Administration changed its name to School of Management. In 1998 the Isenberg School of Management was named after Eugene Isenberg,[12] the chairman and CEO of Nabors Industries,[13] which at the time was a world leader in gas and petroleum drilling.
McCormack Department of Sport Managementedit
In 2010, the department of sports studies was renamed as the McCormack Department of Sport Management after Mark McCormack, founder and CEO of IMG.[14]
Modern expansionedit
The business school completed and opened a 70,000-square-foot expansion in 2019.[11] The project was estimated at $62 million and added classrooms, labs, and student-facing spaces.[15][16][17]
Programsedit
Undergraduate programedit
Isenberg awards Bachelor of Business Administration in five majors and Bachelor of Science in two majors.[18] The finance undergraduate degree is affiliated with CFA Institute.[19] The acceptance rate to BBA program was 5% to 10% for internal students.[20] From fall 2022, the school stopped internal transfers who were not directly accepted into the program.[21]
MBA and masters programedit
Isenberg offers full-time, part-time and online programs for its AACSB-accredited MBA degree. The school has the second largest MBA degree program in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts by total enrolled students.[22]
Isenberg offers Dual MBA/MS degrees in six disciplines: Public Policy and Administration, Sport Management, Civil Engineering, Environmental Engineering, Industrial Engineering, and Mechanical Engineering. Isenberg also awards M.S. degrees in Accounting and Sport Management.[23]
At the MBA level, in 2020 and 2023[25]U.S. News & World Report ranked Isenberg 53rd overall,[26] and ranked its online MBA program 28th.[27]Financial Times has ranked its online MBA program at 3rd worldwide and 1st in the United States for the years 2017,[28] 2018,[29] 2019,[29] and 2020.[30] In 2023, Financial Times has ranked its online MBA program at 5th worldwide and 2nd in the United States.[31]
Individual departmentsedit
In 2019, Public Accounting Report’s Annual Professors Survey has ranked the college under top 30 for undergraduate,[32] graduate,[33] and Ph.D. accounting programs.[34]
In 2022, the McCormack Department of Sport Management has been ranked #1 graduate-level global sports management program[35] for the fourth time[36] in the world by SportBusiness International.[37][38][39] In 2014, Forbes called the sports management department "a world-wide leader in its field".[40]
The school's Hospitality & Tourism Management Department was ranked #25 in the world in 2023 by CEOWORLD magazine.[41]
Donor programsedit
In 2014, alumni Douglas and Diana Berthiaume donated $10 million to the university to establish Berthiaume Center for Entrepreneurship[42][43] and further in 2023, they donated $20 million to support and expand faculty research and endow new faculty positions and professorships.[44][45]
^As of the year 2022, the total endowment of the business school is $69,239,223. The figures and the financial data reports are from Isenberg School's Dean's Report 2022.
Citationsedit
^"History". Isenberg School of Management. Retrieved July 29, 2020.
^"Color". UMass Brand Guide. University of Massachusetts Amherst. Archived from the original on April 30, 2015. Retrieved April 27, 2015.
^"Isenberg School of Management: Facts". Isenberg School of Management. Retrieved October 31, 2019.
^"Isenberg School of Management: Alumni Enagagement". Isenberg School of Management. Retrieved January 30, 2017.
^ ab"Eugene M. Isenberg School of Management Records". W. E. B. Du Bois Library. Retrieved October 20, 2021.
^ abMarani, Matthew (July 31, 2019). "BIG's copper-and-glass-clad Isenberg School Expansion falls into place". The Architect's Newspaper. Retrieved July 29, 2020.
^"UMass business school gets new name, direction". Boston Business Journal. Retrieved July 14, 2012.
^Maremont, Mark (31 October 2011). "A Very Rich Adieu for Nabors CEO". The Wall Street Journal. Retrieved July 14, 2012.
^"Department Of Sport Management At UMass Amherst To Mark 50 Years". BusinessWest.com. Retrieved March 30, 2023.
^"UMass business school expansion turns to private sector for donations". The Boston Globe. Retrieved July 16, 2016.
^"Open For Business: Spring 2019". Isenberg School of Management. Retrieved July 16, 2016.
^"Groundbreaking at UMass Amherst Isenberg School of Management". Goody Clancy. Retrieved March 20, 2017.
^"Academics - Undergraduate Program". Isenberg School of Management. Archived from the original on January 28, 2024. Retrieved January 28, 2024.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)
^"University Affiliation Program - CFA Institute". CFA Institute. Retrieved December 30, 2023.
^"BBA Application for Current UMass Students". Isenberg School of Management. Archived from the original on January 16, 2024. Retrieved January 17, 2024.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)
^"Starting fall 2022, Isenberg will not allow internal transfers". The Massachusetts Daily Collegian. Archived from the original on January 16, 2024. Retrieved January 17, 2024.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)
^"All Masters Programs Landing Page - Isenberg Website - Isenberg School of Management - UMass Amherst". www.isenberg.umass.edu.
^"Ranking: U.S. News' Best Undergraduate Business Programs Of 2024". Yahoo! Finance. Archived from the original on January 28, 2024. Retrieved January 28, 2024.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)
^"38th Annual Professors Survey - 2019 : 2019 Top 50 Undergraduate Accounting Programs" (PDF). W. P. Carey School of Business. Archived from the original (PDF) on June 10, 2020. Retrieved June 10, 2020.
^"38th Annual Professors Survey - 2019 : 2019 Top 50 Master's Accounting Programs" (PDF). W. P. Carey School of Business. Retrieved June 10, 2020.
^"Post Graduate Sports Business Course Rankings for 2016" (PDF). Sports Business International. Retrieved August 6, 2016.
^"2016 postgraduate sports course rankings". Sports Business International. June 2016. Retrieved August 6, 2016.
^"Sports Industry 101: Breaking Into The Business Of Sports". Forbes. Retrieved August 6, 2016.
^"Best Hospitality And Hotel Management Schools In The World For 2023". CEOWORLD. Retrieved March 30, 2023.
^"Milford: Waters Corp. CEO gives $10 million to UMass". The MetroWest Daily News. Retrieved April 28, 2014.
^"Waters CEO Douglas Berthiaume and his wife give $10M to UMass Amherst". Boston Business Journal. Retrieved April 28, 2014.
^"UMass Amherst business school receives $20 million 'extraordinary gift,' largest cash donation in its history". The Boston Globe. Retrieved March 19, 2023.
^"UMass Amherst Isenberg School of Management receives largest donation ever". MassLive.com. Retrieved March 19, 2023.
^"David G. Fubini, Senior Lecturer of Business Administration". Harvard Business School. Retrieved August 10, 2016.
^"Mujde Yuksel: Associate Professor of Marketing". Suffolk University. Retrieved May 21, 2019.
^"J. Michael Millis, MD". University of Chicago Medicine.
^"Lieutenant General Robert Miller". United States Air Force. Retrieved May 29, 2021.
^"A Twitter Executive's Philosophy on Entrepreneurship". Isenberg School of Management. Retrieved 24 May 2017.
^"Twitter executive Wayne Chang tells UMass graduates to 'hack the system'". MassLive.com. 7 May 2016. Retrieved 24 May 2017.
^"Former NBA Commissioner David Stern Named McCormack Department of Sport Management Executive-in-Residence at UMass Amherst". University of Massachusetts Amherst. Retrieved 2 November 2019.
^"David Stern, Commissioner Emeritus of the National Basketball Association, Named McCormack Executive-in-Residence at UMass Amherst". Isenberg School of Management, UMass Amherst. Retrieved 2 November 2019.
^"International Olympic Committee Member Anita DeFrantz Named McCormack Executive-in-Residence". University of Massachusetts Amherst. Retrieved 8 October 2021.
^"Chancellor Javier A. Reyes - Isenberg School of Management". Isenberg School of Managementaccess-date=1 January 2024.
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