Carlson School of Management

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The Carlson School of Management (CSOM) is the business school for undergraduates and graduates at the University of Minnesota. CSOM is located on the West Bank of the University of Minnesota campus, and consistently ranks in the top 5 schools nationwide for the study of Management Information Systems. It is credited as being one of the first two schools providing this major, having started it the same year as MIT. The Human Resources and Industrial Relations program is ranked in the top 5 nationwide for this field of study.

CSOM was founded in 1919 as the University of Minnesota School of Management with 14 faculty and 88 students enrolled. In 1986, the school was renamed after Curt Carlson, a local businessman, founder of the Carlson Companies, and a prominent donator to the University of Minnesota. As of 2005, CSOM has more than 3,500 students, 12 degree programs, 108 tenure-track faculty, dozens of adjunct faculty and more than 46,000 alumni in a network that spans the globe. The Academy of Management Journal has ranked Carlson School faculty 7th for research productivity, and a number of programs are ranked in the top 10 nationally for the number of articles published in leading industry journals.

CSOM offers full-time, part-time, and executive MBA programs along with undergraduate studies and doctoral programs in Business. The full-time MBA program enrolls approximately 120 new students each year. Other programs offered at the school include Masters in Human Resource and Industrial Relations (MA-HRIR), Doctoral program in Human Resource and Industrial Relations (Ph.D.-HRIR), Masters in Business Taxation (MBT) and Masters in Accountancy (MACC).

As of the 2006 edition of the U.S. News & World Report, CSOM has the following rankings:

• 23rd Full-time MBA
• 9th Part-time MBA
• 20th Executive MBA
• 12th Undergraduate in the nation, 7th among public universities

[edit] External links

• CSOM official web site

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