| Katz Graduate School of Business | |
|---|---|
| Established | 1960 |
| Type | Public |
| Dean | John T. Delaney |
| Academic staff | 130 |
| Undergraduates | No |
| Postgraduates | 750 |
| Location | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States |
| Campus | Oakland (Main) |
| Endowment | $50 million |
The Joseph M. Katz Graduate School of Business is the business school of the University of Pittsburgh in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA, and ranks among one of the top business schools in the United States.[1] The school enrolls approximately 200 full-time MBA students, 400 part-time students, and 70 doctoral students. The school also offers several MBA programs, as well as the Ph.D.
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The University of Pittsburgh introduced business education in 1907 as the Evening School of Economics, Accounts, and Finance with classes meeting in the Fulton Building on SIxth Street in Pittsburgh. and established the School of Economics in 1910. Three years later the School of Economics, named for London's famed school, was formally set up on Pitt's Oakland campus. The school was renamed the College of Business Administration in 1923.[2] Katz Graduate School of Business, established in 1960, grew out the College of Business Administration and became one of the 17 founding members of the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB) and the second school in the United States to offer the Executive MBA program. Katz offered the first one-year MBA program in the U.S. (1960s), and was one of the first business schools to offer an MBA and Master of Information Systems dual degree. In the 1990s Katz became the first to offer an MBA in Central Europe, and in 2002 launched a bioengineering dual-degree program. The Katz Graduate School of Business now oversees the administration of the undergraduate College of Business Administration.
The Katz School is ranked 48th in USNews 2007 edition, is listed among the nation's best business schools by The Princeton Review,[1] is ranked 5th in the nation and 53rd in the world by the Financial Times of London ranking,[3] one of the top ten public business schools by the Wall Street Journal, and one of the world's best in business by the Economist. The school's information systems specialty was recently ranked 16th in the world.
The Financial Times has ranked Katz's full-time MBA program 1st in the United States and 8th in the world in the "Best Value for the Money" category according to its 2009 rankings, which was the third consecutive year Katz was ranked number one in this category. In the overall rankings, Katz ranked 25th in the world placing it 9th among all United States public universities.[4] According to the Financial Times, Katz MBA graduates enjoy among the highest salaries in consulting and in the industry.
The University of Pittsburgh's College of Business Administration is also ranked Among the Nation's Top 50 Undergraduate Business Schools by BusinessWeek Magazine.
The Katz School offers a variety of specialties which include: Accounting, Management Information Systems, Strategic Management, Marketing, Finance, Operations, Supply Chain Management, Human Resource Management, etc. Project courses with large corporations such as Mellon Financial, Westinghouse, GlaxoSmithKline, and PNC Bank are commonly available to students. In addition, students have the opportunity to visit the New York Stock Exchange through the investments practicum, and perform business research in Europe through enrollment in an international business course.
The University of Pittsburgh is home to the International Business Center (IBC), which was founded in 1990 as a joint venture of the Katz Graduate School of Business and the University Center for International Studies. The IBC was one of the first five national resource Centers for International Business Education and Research (CIBER) funded by the U.S. Department of Education, and remains one of only 31 such centers operating in the United States.[5]
Katz maintains international linkages with colleges and universities around the world to facilitate study and research abroad. Universities with Katz linkages include Monterrey Institute of Technology in Monterrey, Mexico, Universidad Tecnica Federico Santa Maria, in Valparaíso, Chile, the Universitat Augsburg, the Hochschule Pforzheim, Universität Witten/Herdecke and the European Business School near Frankfurt.[6]
Katz has also expanded its programs into emerging markets delivering the Katz Executive MBA program at international locations in Prague and São Paulo. Katz Executive MBA ranks among the top 10 in the world for cross-continent Executive MBA programs according to the Financial Times' 2008 ranking.[7]
Katz has an outstanding reputation for attracting international students. The entering class is currently composed of 51% international students from countries such as Brazil, China, Germany, Greece, India, Japan, Mexico, Peru, Nigeria, Taiwan, among others. Admissions to the prestigious business school are known to be highly selective, all matriculants typically score in the top 15 percent of applicants on the Graduate Management Admissions Test, and only a small number of applicants are admitted to the program each year.