Belk College of Business

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The Belk College of Business is the business school at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. The Belk College offers undergraduate, master's and doctoral degrees in a variety of business disciplines.

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[edit] History

The college was established in 1965 as the College of Business at UNC Charlotte. The school was renamed the The Belk College of Business in 1991 in honor of the William Henry Belk family and the Belk department store organization. Members of the Belk family were instrumental in the creation of UNC Charlotte and have been generous contributors to the university and the college.

The undergraduate business program began in 1965. The part-time (evening) MBA program began in 1970; a full-time component was added in 2007. In 2006, the college began offering a PhD program.

[edit] Students

The college has approximately 3,500 enrolled students. Of these, about 2700 are undergraduates.


[edit] Faculty

  • 87 full-time faculty members (Fall 2007)
  • Permanent/tenured professors: 50
  • Adjunct or visiting faculty: 20
  • Tenured faculty who are women:22 %
  • Tenured faculty who are underrepresented minorities: 2 %
  • MBA Student-faculty ratio: 2:1

[edit] Graduates

The Belk College has approximately 17,000 living graduates, of whom approximately 11,000 reside in the Charlotte metropolitan area.

According to US News and World Report, graduates of the UNC Charlotte MBA program have among the lowest student-loan debt of all reporting institutions:

    • Duke University - $74,909
    • UNC Chapel Hill - $68,354
    • Wake Forest University - $45,451
    • N.C. State University - $31,122
    • UNC Charlotte - $3,500


Employers who most frequently hire graduates: Bank of America, Compass Group, Duke Energy, Ingersoll-Rand, TIAA-CREF, Wachovia

[edit] See also

[edit] References

UNC Charlotte's MBA program has been featured in The Princeton Review's 2007 edition of its “Best Business Schools.” For details, pls visit http://www.princetonreview.com/mba/

UNC Charlotte is also offering its international MBA program in Hong Kong and Taiwan. For more information, please visit http://www.uncc.edu.hk and http://www.unccmba.com.

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