Marriott School of Management
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| Type | Private business school |
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| Established | 1891 |
| Affiliation | The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints |
| Endowment | $182.1 million |
| Dean | Lee Tom Perry |
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Academic staff
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131 full-time |
| Undergraduates | 2,100 |
| Postgraduates | 825 |
| Location |
Provo, Utah, United States 40°15′2″N 111°39′8″W / 40.25056°N 111.65222°WCoordinates: 40°15′2″N 111°39′8″W / 40.25056°N 111.65222°W |
| Affiliations | Brigham Young University |
| Website | marriottschool |
| Business school rankings | |
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| Worldwide MBA | |
| Financial Times | 65 |
| U.S. MBA | |
| Bloomberg Businessweek | 23 |
| Forbes | 17 |
| U.S. News & World Report | 27 |
| U.S. undergraduate | |
| Bloomberg Businessweek | 13 |
The J. Willard and Alice S. Marriott School of Management is a business school at Brigham Young University (BYU), a private university owned by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) and located in Provo, Utah, United States.
Going by several different names since its inception in 1891, the business school at BYU has been known as the Marriott School of Management since 1988, when Marriott International founders J. Willard and Alice Marriott made a $15 million (equivalent to $30.38 million in 2016) donation to the school. The Marriott School is housed on-campus in the N. Eldon Tanner Building and offers five undergraduate and six graduate degrees.
Ethical decision-making is strongly emphasized at the school: undergraduate students are required to complete 14 hours of religion coursework for graduation, all Marriott School students must take at least one course in management ethics, and both students and faculty must commit to abide by the university's honor code. The school also exhibits a unique culture because the majority of its student and faculty bodies are members of the LDS Church.
Many Marriott School students obtain a level of foreign language proficiency while serving as LDS missionaries. (Sixty-five percent of the student body is bilingual.) Consequently, the Marriott School sponsors high-proficiency business language courses in 11 languages. The school claims over 53,000 alumni and is accredited by the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business.
In 1891, Brigham Young Academy, the predecessor to BYU, formed the Commercial College, which offered coursework in business education. A decade later (1901), the college began offering its first four-year degree program. After Brigham Young Academy was separated into Brigham Young High School and Brigham Young University in 1903, the college was renamed the College of Commerce and Business Administration as part of the university. The next decade was tough for the college, as "BYU struggled through the World War I, a flu epidemic [that] closed the school during the fall term of 1918, and school indebtedness that resulted in the 1918 LDS purchase of both BYU's assets and debts." Starting in 1921, the college was housed in the Maeser Building, where it would remain for 13 years.
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