Schulich School of Business
The Schulich School of Business is York University's business school located in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, and is an internationally-ranked business school[1]. Schulich offers undergraduate and graduate programs in business administration, finance, public administration and international business as well as a number of PhD and executive programs. Originally known as the Faculty of Administrative Studies (FAS), it was renamed in 1995 after Seymour Schulich, a major benefactor who has donated $15 million to the school.[2] Although the Schulich School is a faculty of York University, it operates under a separate budget and its own dean.
Primarily located at the Seymour Schulich Building in Toronto, Ontario, the school maintains an executive education centre in Toronto's Financial District in the downtown Toronto and a satellite campus in Hyderabad, India. The School also operates representative offices in Beijing and Shanghai, China; Mumbai, India; Seoul, South Korea; and Moscow, Russia. Schulich offers undergraduate, graduate and postgraduate business degrees that lead to careers in the private, public and nonprofit sectors, and has more than 21,000 alumni working in approximately 90 countries. Schulich pioneered Canada’s first International MBA (IMBA) and International BBA (iBBA) degrees, as well as North America’s first cross-border executive MBA degree, the Kellogg-Schulich Executive MBA. Schulich’s Executive Education Centre provides executive development programs annually to more than 16,000 executives in Canada and abroad.
History
Prior to 1996, the Schulich School of Business was known as the Faculty of Administrative Studies at York University. Before the establishment of the Seymour Schulich Building on the Keele campus at York University, the program was run from a York University building. In 1995, following a major monetary donation from a Canadian billionaire Seymour Schulich, the school underwent a series of changes that created the present-day Schulich School of Business.
Campuses
Seymour Schulich Building
The Seymour Schulich Building, opened in August 2003, is a $102-million complex. The building was jointly designed by Siamak Hariri and Robbie/Young & Wright Architects Inc. and was awarded the Governor General's Medal in Architecture in 2006.[3] The Seymour Schulich Building and its Executive Learning Centre houses Peter F. Bronfman Business Library, Executive Dining Room, Robert R. McEwen Auditorium, Tuchner's Eatery (restaurant/bar), Timothy's World Coffee, a multi-storey hotel, and a number of small lecture halls.
Miles S. Nadal Management Centre
Management programs are held in downtown Toronto at the Miles S. Nadal Management Centre which is located in the Ernst & Young Tower of the Toronto Dominion Centre. The closest subway stations to the downtown location are King, Union and St. Andrew's on the Yonge-University-Spadina line.
India Campus
The Schulich School is currently constructing a campus in Hyderabad, India[4]. The campus, to be named the Schulich GMR Campus, is accredited by the All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) and the inaugural class began in January 2010. During the first 7 months of students study in Hyderabad to develop a strong foundation in business management fundamentals. In August, students travel to Toronto to as part of the curriculum to attain international education during Year 2 at Schulich's main campus. For the next eight months (two terms), they develop more specialized expertise as they tailor their MBA studies to meet career goals.
Graduate Programs
The Schulich School of Business offers a number of graduate programs:
Undergraduate Programs
Overview
Schulich offers two undergraduate programs:
- BBA - Bachelor of Business Administration
- iBBA - International Bachelor of Business Administration
In 2010–2011, the iBBA program will be in its 11th class, and the BBA program will be in its 33rd.
Admissions
The Schulich School of Business maintains a highly selective admission standard for its undergraduate programs. The BBA and iBBA programs together enroll around 380 students (280 for BBA and 100 for iBBA) from an average of 4500 to 5000 applicants per year.[5] Students applying to the BBA/iBBA program must have a low 90s average to remain competitive; the cut-off line for undergraduate applicants in 2010 stood at 90.5%, with the overall average for incoming undergraduates being 92.7%. Applicants must also submit a Supplementary Information Form that includes a summary of the organizations, sports teams, volunteer or paid work that the applicant has been involved in. There are three essay type questions on the Supplementary Information Form. Two reference letters are also required. All undergraduate applicants must take at least 6 U and M courses, but cannot take more than 2 M courses in the same discipline. Applicants must also take Grade 12 English (U) and Grade 12 Advanced Functions and either Grade 12 Data Management or Grade 12 Calculus (Calculus Recommended).
Academics
Similar to the graduate program, students are not required to specialize in a discipline. However, students can choose each of one or two specialty areas such as: Accounting, Economics, Entrepreneurship and Family Business, Finance, International Business, Marketing, Organization Studies or Operations Management & Information Systems, and Strategic Management. iBBA students are also required to complete one semester of study abroad at one of Schulich's partner schools and to take a foreign language course every year. The most popular specializations include Accounting, Finance and Marketing.
Organizational relationships
Schulich maintains a number of relationships with other business schools.
- Kellogg School of Management
- The Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University and Schulich offer a joint EMBA.
- S.P. Jain Institute of Management and Research
- In February 2009, Schulich officially launched a new joint MBA program, the Schulich India MBA, with the S P Jain Institute of Management and Research in Mumbai, India.[6]
- L'Université Laval
- L'Université Laval and Schulich offer a joint program established to graduate bilingual and bicultural managers.
- International Exchange
- Schulich maintains student-exchange relationships with over 70 business schools in over 45 countries such as Stern School of Business at New York University (NYU), HEC Paris, ESADE, IE, ESSEC, CEIBS, Macquarie, EMLYON, Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi, and Copenhagen Business School.[7]
Rankings
Global rankings
- 9th[9] worldwide in the 2011 MBA rankings, by The Economist, up one spot from the previous list. The ranking measures full-time MBA programs on four criteria: "[opens] new career opportunities", "personal development/educational experience", "increase [in] salary" and "potential to network."
- 49th[10] worldwide in the 2011 Financial Times MBA rankings, up five spots from the previous list and 51st over a three-year average (2009–2011). The ranking measures MBA programs against graduates' "current weighted salary", "increase in salary", "percentage of graduates employed in three months", and "number of faculty publications."
- 18th[11] worldwide in the 2010 MBA rankings, by CNN/Expansión, up three spots from the previous list. The CNN/Expansión Best Global MBAs ranking, established in 2006, rates leading MBA programs from around the world using a broad range of criteria, including "academic quality", "return on investment" and "global value."
Specialized rankings
- 2nd in the world [12] as ranked by the Aspen Institute's biennial survey and alternative ranking of business schools, Beyond Grey Pinstripes in 2011. The ranking measures MBA programs that are integrating issues of social and environmental stewardship into curricula and research. It used four criteria: "relevant courses", "student exposure", "for-profit impact" and "faculty research."
- 9th[13] in "The Best International B-Schools of 2010" section of Bloomberg Businessweek's global MBA survey, upgraded from "Second-Tier" ranking in 2008. The ranking measures MBA programs against graduates' "intellect capital", "selectivity", "Pre- & Post-MBA pays", and "job offers."
- Joint 31st in North America[14] in the 2010 QS Top Business Schools rankings, up 29 places from the previous list. "The QS Global 200 Top Business Schools - MBA Employers Choice research captures the preferred set of business schools each responding employer wishes to recruit from, either now, in the recent past, or in the near future."
Notable faculty
- Dezsö Horvath, Dean and 2004 Academy of International Business "Dean of the Year"[15]
- Alan Middleton, the first inductee into the Canadian Marketing Hall of Legends in the Mentor category
- Gareth Morgan, pioneer in the field of organizational behavior and change management. Co-creator of the Burrell Morgan framework[16]
- Joyce Zemans, CM, head of the Arts & Media MBA program is a member of the Order of Canada, previous head of the Canada Council for the Arts, and recipient of the Diplôme d’honneur by the Canadian Conference of the Arts (CCA) [17]
- Moshe Milevsky, Associate Professor in Finance, inducted as a Fields Institute Fellow in 2002
Notable alumni
- Amarjit S. Jowandha, CEO of Pan Global Synergies, Inc.
- Naveen Dargan, director of several energy trusts including CCS Income Trust and Trinidad Energy Services
- Rob McEwen Chairman and CEO of US Gold Corporation and Lexam Explorations. Founder and former Chairman and CEO of Goldcorp
- Anna M. Ewing, Executive VP and CIO at NASDAQ OMX
- Dennis Fotinos, President & CEO of Enwave
- Denise Pickett, President & CEO of American Express Canada
- John S. Hunkin, Former CEO of CIBC
- Craig Kielburger, Founder of Free The Children
- Grant Rasmussen, Former President & CEO UBS Canada
- Alan G. McNally, Former Chairman of Harris Bank
- Eileen Mercier , Chair of Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan Board
- Paul Tsaparis, President & CEO Hewlett-Packard (Canada) Co.
- Richard E. Waugh, President and CEO of Scotiabank
- Robert J. Gemmell ,Former President & CEO of Citigroup Global Markets Canada Inc.
- David Wilson, Chairman of the Ontario Securities Commission
- Vikas Kohli, Founder of Fatlabs Recording Studio in Mississauga, Ontario, Canada
- Colleen Johnston, Group Head Finance and Chief Financial Officer at TD Bank Financial Group, named one of 2009’s “25 Most Powerful Women in Banking” by US Banker magazine.[18]
- Janice Fukakusa, CFO and CAO of Royal Bank of Canada
- Todd Skinner, President and CEO of HSBC Financial Canada
- Jerome Dwight, President & CEO of BNY Trust Company of Canada, a subsidiary of The Bank of New York Mellon
- Dean Orrico, President & CEO of Middlefield Capital
- Edmund Ho, Vice-Chairman of 11th Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference. Former Chief Executive of Macau.
- Ellis Jacob, President & CEO of Cineplex Entertainment
- Carol Wilding, President & CEO of Toronto Board of Trade
Student clubs
Each of these organizations solicits membership from newly admitted students during Club Week, the first week of classes. Very often there is a fee of $20 for membership, which helps to cover the costs of many of the events that each organization holds throughout the academic year. Such events include guest speakers, field trips, case competitions, wine-and-cheese functions and much more. The executive committee for each association is elected towards the end of every academic year for leadership in the following year.[19]
The following is a list of both graduate and undergraduate clubs at Schulich:
- Accounting Society
- Achieving Professional Excellence (APEX) Conference
- AIESEC York (Association Internationale des Étudiants en Sciences Économiques et Commerciales)
- Arts and Media Management Club
- Business Law Association (BLA)
- Business Technology Management Association (BTMA), formerly known as SITA
- Corporate Social Responsibility Society (CSRS)
- Entrepreneurship and Venture Capital Club (EVCC)
- Health and Biotechnology Forum (HCBF)
- The Insider Media Group
- Latin America Business Association (LABA)
- LGBT
- MBA/LLB Joint Program Students Association
- Media Arts & Culture Club (MAC)
- Net Impact - New Leaders for Responsible Business
- The Nonprofit Management Association
- Open Arms Committee (International Student Liaison)
- Students In Free Enterprise (SIFE) York University
- Schulich Association of Management and Organizational Studies (SAMOS), previously known as OBA
- Schulich African Business Association (SABA)
- Schulich Business & Policy Association (SBPA)
- Schulich Case Analysis Club
- Schulich Case Society (SCS)
- Schulich Charity Association (SCA)
- Schulich Consulting Club (SCC)
- Schulich Debate Society
- Schulich East Asian Business Association (SEABA)
- Schulich Finance Association
- Schulich Golf Club
- Schulich Health Care and Biotechnology Forum
- Schulich Marketing Association (SMA)
- Schulich Protégé Program
- Schulich Real Property Students' Association
- Schulich Toastmasters
- Significant Others of Schulich Association(SOSA)
- South Asian Business Club (SABC)
- Supply Chain Management Club (SCMC)
- Women In Leadership (WIL)
- York Finance Club
- York Marketing Association
- York University Cricket Club
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