List of Ivy League business schools

This list of Ivy League business schools outlines the six universities of the Ivy League that host a business school.[1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8] The creation of business schools at Ivy League universities occurred over nearly a century, beginning with the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, founded in 1881 by Joseph Wharton, which was the first collegiate (undergraduate) business school in the world.[9] In 1900, the Tuck School at Dartmouth was founded as the world's first graduate school of business; and in 1921, Harvard Business School became the first business school to offer the MBA degree.[10][11]

In 1955, five Ivy League schools—Columbia, Cornell, Dartmouth, Harvard, and Wharton—offered MBA degrees.[1] After the Ivy League was formally established in 1954, graduates of these five universities accounted for more than half of the total 3,300 MBA degrees awarded in the United States that year.[12] By 2001, Ivy League MBA graduates constituted only 8% of all MBA degrees awarded in the United States, but represented over 25% of the MBA qualifications held by top executives at Fortune 100 companies.[12] By 2021, the proportion of MBA degrees from Ivy League schools decreased to only 3.6% of the total awarded, but Ivy League MBA graduates still accounted for 23% of the MBA degrees among executives in the Fortune 100, indicating a strong ongoing preference for Ivy League credentials in top corporate positions.[12] Additionally, the Ivy League business schools regularly share resources across their marketing and finance departments,[13] and Alumni regularly participate in "inter-Ivy" networking events, which are held throughout the United States.[14][15]

Ivy League business schools

School name Host institution Location Acceptance rate Image Degrees offered Year founded
Columbia Business School Columbia University New York City, New York 22%[16] MPhil, MS, MBA, EMBA, PhD 1916
Harvard Business School Harvard University Allston, Massachusetts 14%[17] MBA, PhD, DBA 1908
Johnson School (grad)
Dyson School (undergrad) 		Cornell University Ithaca, New York 28%[18] BS, MS, MPS, MBA, EMBA, PhD 1909
Tuck School of Business Dartmouth College Hanover, New Hampshire 31%[19] MBA 1900
Wharton School University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 23%[20] BS Econ, MBA, EMBA, PhD 1881
Yale School of Management Yale University New Haven, Connecticut 28%[21] MBA, EMBA, PhD 1976

See also

References

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