Illinois State University College of Business

Illinois State University
College of Business

Type	Public Business School
Established	1967
Affiliation	Illinois State University
Endowment	US$ 16.4 million (2012)[1]
Dean	Gerry McKean (Interim)[2]
Academic staff	99 full-time[3]
Undergraduates	3,455[4]
Postgraduates	174
Location	Normal, Illinois, USA
Campus	Urban
Website	http://business.illinoisstate.edu

The Illinois State University College of Business is the business school at Illinois State University.

The college is divided into five academic departments:

• Accounting
• Finance, Insurance, and Law
• Management and Quantitative Methods
• Marketing
• Master of Business Administration

Campus

State Farm Hall of Business

The College of Business has two campuses. The main campus is located in the State Farm Hall of Business in Normal, Illinois. The State Farm Hall of Business opened in 2005. It was built to be a 21st-century version of the Oxford College Model. The building's four stories wrap around an open-air courtyard. The $28 million facility blends the small college campus environment with a corporate presence and state-of-the-art technologies.^[5]

The second campus is located in downtown Chicago, Illinois for business professionals looking to receive their MBA. The program is a 19-week study with classes on Friday evenings and all day on Saturdays every other weekend.

Rankings and Accreditations

Both the undergraduate and graduate programs are highly ranked as one of the best in the country. Here are a few of the recent achievements:

• The undergraduate program was listed among The Best Undergraduate Business Schools in Bloomsberg Businessweek.^[8]

• The College was recognized as one of the Best Business Schools in the 2011 ranking for U.S. News and World Report.^[9]

• The graduate program was ranked ninth in Princeton Review's 2013 ranking of best-administered MBA programs. The ranking was a part of The Best 296 Business Schools: 2013 Edition, published by The Princeton Review. Illinois State is the only public university in Illinois listed in the top 10 in any of the categories.^[10]

• Illinois State is one of 178 schools to receive both business and accounting accreditation from the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB) International. This accreditation is given to high quality and excellence programs that continue to improve undergraduate and graduate business programs.^[11]
• Illinois State is one of only 16 universities in the United States that is recognized as a full member of the University Sales Center Alliance (USCA).^[12]

References

1. ↑ "Current Endowment Value" (PDF). Illinoisstate.edu. Retrieved 1 August 2015. 
2. ↑ Parmenter, Joyce. "McKean named interim dean of College of Business". Retrieved 5 July 2015. 
3. ↑ https://datadirect.aacsb.edu/public/profiles/profile.cfm?interstitialComplete=1&runReport=1&unitid=54619&userType=All.  Missing or empty |title= (help)
4. ↑ (PDF) http://business.illinoisstate.edu/downloads/about/prospectus_revised_May2015.pdf.  Missing or empty |title= (help)
5. ↑ http://business.illinoisstate.edu/about/.  Missing or empty |title= (help)
6. ↑ "The Complete Ranking: Best Undergraduate Business Schools". Bloomberg Businessweek. 2014. Retrieved 2016-02-06. 
7. ↑ "College of Business". Bloomberg. 
8. ↑ Best Undergraduate B-Schools Ranking History, retrieved November 5, 2012.
9. ↑ Best Business Schools, retrieved November 5, 2012.
10. ↑ Illinois State Cracks List Of Top Business Schools, retrieved November 5, 2012.
11. ↑ Schools Accredited in Accounting- ordered by name, retrieved November 5, 2012.
12. ↑ USCA Full Member Schools, retrieved November 5, 2012.