University of Miami School of Business Administration

UM School of Business Administration

Logo of the University of Miami School of Business Administration
Motto	Magna est veritas (Latin)
Motto in English	Great is the truth
Type	Private
Established	1929
Dean	Barbara E. Kahn
Academic staff	144
Undergraduates	1,962
Postgraduates	513
Location	Coral Gables, Florida, United States
Campus	Urban
Website	www.bus.miami.edu

The University of Miami School of Business Administration is an academic unit within the University of Miami located in Coral Gables, Florida. It was founded in 1929. It offers undergraduate business, full-time MBA, Executive MBA, MS, Ph.D. and non-degree executive education programs. It is a member of the Graduate Management Admission Council.

The UM School of Business was founded in 1929 under President Bowman Foster Ashe in the midst of the “Great Crash.” Classes were initially held in the unfinished Anastasia Hotel, near the 160 acres (0.65 km²) that would later become the University of Miami campus. Ashe lured national recognized economist John Thom Holdsworth of Pittsburgh to teach economics and to later serve as the School’s dean. In the 1940s the School expanded its undergraduate offerings to include majors in accounting, commerce, finance and political science and the School grew to almost 2,000 students. The School started its full-time MBA program in 1948 and was accredited by the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB) in 1957.

In 1973, the school established one of the first Executive MBA programs. In 1979, the school added a health care specialization to its Executive MBA offerings with what is now the Executive MBA in Health Sector Management and Policy program. In the late 1970s, the School gained a permanent facility with the completion of the George W. Jenkins Building and the Elsa and William H. Stubblefield Memorial Classroom Building.

From 1992-2007, Paul K. Sugrue served as Dean.

In August 2007, Barbara E. Kahn became dean after serving as a professor and administrator at the Wharton School.

The Financial Times now rates the School's faculty among the top 35 business school faculties in the U.S. and among the top 40 faculties in the world. Media citations about the School and its faculty increased by more than 100 percent from 2008 to 2009 and have included top media such as The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, BusinessWeek, The Financial Times, Forbes, The Economist, CNN, Fox Business Network and PBS's Nightly Business Report, for which the School's faculty now provide a regular commentary segment.