Ivey Business School | |
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Motto | To Develop Business Leaders Who Think Globally, Act Strategically And Contribute To The Societies In Which They Operate. |
Established | 1922 |
Type | Faculty (Business School) |
Academic affiliation | University of Western Ontario |
Location | London, Ontario, Canada43°00′27″N 81°16′22″W / 43.00759°N 81.2728°WCoordinates: 43°00′27″N 81°16′22″W / 43.00759°N 81.2728°W |
Dean | Mark Vandenbosch (Acting) |
Academic staff | 109 |
Undergraduates | 1,200 |
Postgraduates | 300 |
Alumni | 26,000 |
Website | www |
Ivey Business School (Ivey) is a Canadian business school located at the University of Western Ontario, a research-intensive university in London, Ontario, Canada. According to Bloomberg Businessweek, Ivey has the best full-time MBA program outside of the United States.
Ivey offers full-time undergraduate (HBA), MBA, MSc, and PhD programs and also maintains two teaching facilities in Toronto and Hong Kong for its EMBA and Executive Education programs. As one of the oldest business schools in Canada, Ivey is also accredited with establishing the nation's first MBA and PhD program in Business.
The business school was officially created in 1950, when Western University created a separate faculty as the School of Business Administration. In 1995, the school was renamed the Richard Ivey School of Business after an $11 million donation by the Richard M. Ivey family. The school is named after Richard G. Ivey (father of Richard M. Ivey). In 1998, Ivey was the first North American business school to open a campus in Hong Kong offering an Executive MBA program at the Cheng Yu Tung Management Institute.
In 2010, Ivey became the first North American business school to offer the prestigious CEMS Global Alliance in Management Education, joining the likes of London School of Economics, HEC Paris, ESADE, and Bocconi University.
Ivey's current dean is Mark Vandenbosch (serving in an Acting role until June 30, 2018) with a full-time faculty of 98 plus 11 lecturers.
In 2013, the School abbreviated its name to "Ivey Business School" and updated its visual identity. The legal name of the Faculty of Business at Western University, however, remains Richard Ivey School of Business.
The Ivey HBA (Bachelor of Arts in Honors Business Administration) was the first degree program in business at the University of Western Ontario. A class of six men were the program's first graduates in 1923.
In 2010, the HBA program grew to 525 students with the final program size of 610 students in place since 2013.