Type | Private business school |
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Established | 1916 |
Endowment | $680 million |
Dean | R. Glenn Hubbard |
Academic staff
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136 |
Postgraduates | 1,433 |
~100 | |
Location | New York, NY, USA |
Campus | Urban |
Affiliations | Columbia University |
Website | gsb.columbia.edu |
Business school rankings | |
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Worldwide overall | |
QS | 22 |
Times Higher Education | 10 |
U.S. News & World Report | 7 |
Worldwide MBA | |
Business Insider | 7 |
Economist | 11 |
Financial Times | 6 |
U.S. MBA | |
Bloomberg Businessweek | 11 |
Forbes | 4 |
U.S. News & World Report | 10 |
Vault | 8 |
Columbia Business School (CBS) is the business school of Columbia University in Manhattan, New York City. It is one of six Ivy League business schools, and is among the most selective of top business schools.
The School was founded in 1916 with 11 full-time faculty members and an inaugural class of 61 students, including 8 women. Banking executive Emerson McMillin provided initial funding in 1916, while A. Barton Hepburn, then president of Chase National Bank, provided funding for the School's endowment in 1919. The School expanded rapidly, enrolling 420 students by 1920, and in 1924 added a PhD program to the existing BS and MS degree programs.
In 1945, Columbia Business School authorized the awarding of the MBA degree. Shortly thereafter, in the 1950s, the School adopted the Hermes emblem as its symbol, reflecting the entrepreneurial nature of the Greek god Hermes and his association with business, commerce and communication.
In 1952, CBS admitted its last class of undergraduates. The school currently offers executive education programs that culminate in a Certificate in Business Excellence (CIBE) and full alumni status, and several degree programs for the MBA and PhD degrees. In addition to the full-time MBA, the school offers four Executive MBA programs: the NY-EMBA Friday/Saturday program, the EMBA-Global program (launched in 2001 in conjunction with the London Business School), the Berkeley-Columbia Executive MBA program (launched in 2002 in conjunction with the Haas School of Business at University of California, Berkeley), and the EMBA-Global Asia program (launching in 2009 in conjunction with the London Business School and the University of Hong Kong Business School). Students in jointly run programs earn an MBA degree from each of the cooperating institutions.