Anderson School at UCLA
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| Type | Private |
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| Established | 1935 |
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Parent institution
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University of California, Los Angeles |
| Endowment | US$110 million |
| Dean | Judy D. Olian |
| Students | 1750 |
| Location | Los Angeles, CA, USA |
| Campus | Urban |
| Website | www |
| Business school rankings | |
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| Worldwide overall | |
| QS | 17 |
| Worldwide MBA | |
| Business Insider | 17 |
| Economist | 14 |
| Financial Times | 34 |
| U.S. MBA | |
| Bloomberg Businessweek | 13 |
| Forbes | 17 |
| U.S. News & World Report | 15 |
| Vault | 16 |
The UCLA Anderson School of Management is the graduate business school at the University of California, Los Angeles, one of eleven professional schools. The school offers MBA (full-time, part-time, executive), Financial Engineering and Ph.D. degrees. The school is consistently ranked among the top tier business school programs in the country, based on rankings published by US News & World Report, Businessweek and other leading publications.
The range of programs offered by Anderson includes:
The School of Management at UCLA was founded in 1935, and the MBA degree was authorized by the UC Regents four years later. In its early years the school was primarily an undergraduate institution, although this began to change in the 1950s after the appointment of Neil H. Jacoby as dean; the last undergraduate degree was awarded in 1969. UCLA is rare among public universities in the U.S. for not offering undergraduate business administration degrees. Undergraduate degrees in business economics are offered.
In 1950, the school was renamed the School of Business Administration. Five years later it became the Graduate School of Business Administration; in the 1970s the school’s name was changed again to the Graduate School of Management.
In 1987, John E. Anderson (1917–2011), class of 1940, donated $15 million to the school and prompted the construction of a new complex at the north end of UCLA’s campus. He later donated additional $25 million. On May 13, 2015, Marion Anderson, widow of the late John Anderson, announced a $100 million donation to the school, to be used for fellowships, research, and part of the cost of a new building to be built at the Anderson complex. At $100 million, this is the 4th single-largest donation to a business school in the United States. The existing 6-building, 285,000-square-foot (26,500 m2) facility, designed by Henry N. Cobb of the architectural firm Pei Cobb Freed & Partners, cost $75 million to construct and opened officially in 1995.
Recently, the school has been mostly self-funded, with only $6 million of government funding out of its $96 million budget in 2010-11. In fall 2010, the school proposed "financial self-sufficiency": Giving up all state funding, in return for freedom from some state rules and freedom to raise tuition. Critics called this proposal "privatization", but the school rejected this description, with Dean Judy Olian saying, "This is not privatization.... We will continue to be part of UCLA and part of the state." The proposal met objections in the UCLA Academic Senate (faculty members from all UCLA departments), and is still pending.
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