Florida International University College of Business Administration

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The College of Business Administration is one of the colleges at Florida International University, which is located in Miami, FL in the United States. The college was founded in 1965 and currently offers undergraduate degrees in Accountancy, Business Administration, Finance and Business Economics and Management. At the post-graduate level, degrees offered are the Master's in Business Administration, Accountancy and Master of Science in Administration, International Business, Science in Management Information Systems, Science in International Real Estate, Science in Human Resources Management, as well as doctorate degrees offered such as Doctor of Philosophy in Business Administration.

The college is split into two, separate schools, the Landon Undergraduate School of Business with over 6,000 students and the Chapman Graduate School of Business with over 1,000 students, making the College of Business Administration the most popular and largest at FIU.

On-campus housing is available for graduate students in the Chapman Graduate School of Business at the University Park Towers and the University Park Apartments through the graduate housing community.

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View of the Ryder College of Business Administration Building from the northern entrance to FIU's University Park campus.
View of the Ryder College of Business Administration Building from the northern entrance to FIU's University Park campus.

The college is located in three separate buildings, the Ryder Business Building for undergraduate business study and in the new business school complex, the Chapman Graduate School Complex, comprised of two separate buildings, for graduate business study. The Chapman Graduate School Complex is currently under construction and is expected to be finished by the summer of 2007.

[edit] Rankings

U.S. News & World Report ranks the college's international business programs as 7th in the U.S. for undergraduates, 18th in the U.S. for graduate students and 4th among one-year International MBA programs.

BusinessWeek reports the college as the top 15% of accredited business schools in the U.S.—the only one in South Florida.

Fortune Small Business (March 8, 2006) also cites the college as among the “Ten Cool Colleges for Entrepreneurs,” offering “some of the most innovative programs for fledgling business owners.”

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