Motto | Freely ye received, freely ye give |
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Type | Private |
Established | 1969 |
Affiliation | Church of Christ |
Dean | Deryck J. van Rensburg, DBA |
Academic staff
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140 |
Postgraduates | 1,844 |
Location | Malibu, CA, US |
Campus |
Suburban, 830 acres (3.4 km2) |
Website | www.bschool.pepperdine.edu |
The Graziadio School of Business and Management, or more commonly, the Graziadio Business School, is the graduate business program at Pepperdine University. It is one of the largest graduate business schools in Southern California with more than 144,000 alumni, and is accredited by the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB). The Graziadio School is recognized as a top business school by Forbes, Businessweek, Princeton Review, and U.S. News & World Report. It was named in honor of George L. Graziadio, Jr. after he donated US$15 million in 1996.
The Graziadio School of Business and Management is headquartered in West Los Angeles at the Howard Hughes Center next to Interstate 405. Other graduate campuses are in Encino, Irvine, San Jose, Malibu and Westlake Village and Santa Barbara. Full-Time programs are headquartered in Malibu, CA. International programs during abroad trimesters take place in various international universities.
The Pepperdine Graziadio School of Business and Management has nine different MBA programs. Pepperdine classroom sizes are limited to no more than 30 students and feature an average student to faculty ratio of 14:1.
One-year and two-year MBAs are offered. A 12-month MBA degree is offered for those who have at least three years of full-time business work experience and an undergraduate degree in business; a 15-month MBA is for those who have at least three years experience in business, but do not hold an undergraduate degree in business; a traditional two-year MBA is offered for those who have at least one year of professional full-time work experience.