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22 unusual facts about Master of Business Administration


A.C. Nielsen Center

The A.C. Nielsen Center for Marketing Research provides a marketing research Master of Business Administration degree.

Association of MBAs

a full-time MBA curriculum should contain no less than 500 contact (scheduled classroom) hours and a distance-learning MBA program should have no less than 120 synchronous contact hours;

As of January 2014, the Association of MBAs has accredited 210 business schools offering more than 800 different MBA, DBA and MBM programs in over 85 countries (including the 52 home countries of the 210 institutions).

at least 50% of the faculty of an MBA program (including visiting faculty as part of the total) are expected to have PhD degrees;

all admitted students should have at least three years of full-time post-graduation work experience upon the start of the MBA course (a criterion which the vast majority of the top US business schools cannot meet as US MBA programs sometimes admit applicants with only a bachelor's degree and no work experience);

The Association's process of accrediting an MBA program includes reviewing compliance with over 100 criteria, most of them qualitative rather than quantitative.

AMBA was originally set up as an association of MBA graduates and part of its activities remain focused on maintaining the membership dimension.

When a school applies for accreditation for its MBA programs, AMBA requires that the entire portfolio of MBA programs be put up for consideration (See diagram on the right) and will award accreditation only if all programs meet the organisation's criteria (though the school pays the same fee regardless of the number of programs being reviewed).

Dennis Strigl

Strigl holds a degree in business administration from Canisius College in Buffalo, New York (where he now sits as Chairman of the Board of Trustees) and an MBA from Fairleigh Dickinson University in Rutherford, New Jersey.

Dibrugarh University

It started functioning on February 3, 2003, with the first batch holding only Master of Business Administration (MBA) students.

Edward Higgins White, Sr.

He attended Harvard Business School, from which he received his Master of Business Administration in 1937, and spent World War II working as a budget and financial officer, first at the Air Materiel Command at Wright Field, Ohio, and then in the Office of the Chief of United States Army Air Forces in Washington, D.C. He transferred to the United States Air Force when it was created in 1947.

Frank Legacki

Legacki received both a Bachelor's degree in history (1962) and an M.B.A. degree (1964) from the University of Michigan.

Graduate Management Association of Australia

The Graduate Management Association of Australia (GMAA) is the nationally recognised umbrella Professional Association for graduates having MBA, DBA and other postgraduate business management qualifications in Australia.

Hasmukh Goswami College of Engineering

The college offers a Masters degree in Business Administration - MBA.

John Myers Myers

He is best known for the fantasy novel Silverlock in which a Master of Business Administration travels through a fantasy land of letters, meeting dozens of characters from myth, legend, and romance for adventure and instruction.

Micro-MBA

The term Micro-MBA refers to the traditional Master of Business Administration (MBA) programme.

NJIT School of Management

NJIT offers a Bachelor of Science program (four years, 124 credits), a Master of Science in management program (30 credits), and two Master of Business Administration (MBA) programs: One regular (48 credits; two years for full-time students, three or four years for part-time students) and the other an accelerated 18-month Executive MBA program for managers and professionals.

Patrick Rouble

He attended St. Lawrence College in Kingston, Ontario, and is now working on completing the requirements for a Master of Business Administration at Royal Roads University in Victoria, British Columbia.

Pete Pfitzinger

He also holds a Master of Business Administration from Cornell's Johnson Graduate School of Management and a Master of Arts in exercise science from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst.

Staff and line

Historically, most MBA graduates have aspired to work in staff positions using their analytical skills to advise line managers.

Tom Rafferty

Rafferty earned his Bachelor of Science in physical education from Penn State University in 1976, and later earned an MBA from the University of Dallas.

Tommy Curtis

After earning a Master of Business Administration (MBA) at UCLA, Curtis returned to Florida and worked for the state's Department of Commerce and later a Florida business council assisting minorities.


Adam Storch

He received an MBA from New York University's Stern School of Business.

Alexander, Prince zu Sayn-Wittgenstein-Sayn

Alexander Konrad Friedrich Heinrich, Prince zu Sayn-Wittgenstein-Sayn, (born 22 November 1943 in Salzburg, Austria), a German businessman, MBA HBS '68, is member of the house of Sayn-Wittgenstein and as 7th Prince (German: Fürst) zu Sayn-Wittgenstein-Sayn head of the Princely House Sayn-Wittgenstein-Sayn.

Anne Zerr

Following high school Zerr attended Lindenwood University, earning a Bachelors degree in Human Resource Development, and later an MBA and a Masters degree in Human Service Agency Management.

Chung Eui-sun

Chung received the bachelor's degree in business management administration from Korea University and a Master of Business Administration from the University of San Francisco School of Business.

Collaborative Fusion

Omer, a graduate of Detroit, Michigan's Wayne State University, previously worked at JPMorgan Chase before attending Carnegie Mellon's MBA program and subsequently co-founding Collaborative Fusion.

Deakin Business School

Deakin Graduate School of Business provides Deakin University's major postgraduate business programs covering Master of Business Administration, Master of Commerce, Master of International Business, Master of Marketing, and Doctor of Business Administration courses as well as Executive Development programs.

Faculties and institutions of University of Peradeniya

PGIA's Master of Business Administration (MBA) degree program was initiated in 1998 and is the first such Programme offered in Sri Lanka outside Colombo, and the third to be offered by a public university in the country.

G. Gordon Strong

He was born in Vancouver, British Columbia in 1913 and completed degrees in economics and commerce at the University of British Columbia, an MBA from Northwestern University and a law degree from the University of Toledo.

Gerard Basset

Gerard Francis Claude Basset OBE, MS, MW, MBA, is the owner with his wife, Nina, of Hotel Terravina, a New Forest Hotel near Southampton in Hampshire, United Kingdom.

Gregory F. Casagrande

He received a Master of Business Administration (MBA) in Finance and Marketing from Northwestern University Kellogg School of Management, a MS in Accounting from New York University Stern School of Business as well as a Bachelor of Arts (BA) in Economics with high distinction from Colgate University.

Jackie Beere

She is also a qualified Master Neurolinguistic Programmer, an AST and Excellent Teacher accredited assessor and is an Associate Tutor for the University of Leicester for the MBA course.

James P. Gorman

In 1982 he joined law firm Phillips Fox and Masel (now DLA Phillips Fox) before heading to the United States to obtain an Master of Business Administration from Columbia Business School.

Kelly Downard

Downard graduated from St. Xavier High School in 1964, also graduated from the University of Dayton School of Business Administration and earned a Master of Business Administration from Bellarmine University.

Ken Nnamani

He holds both BBA and MBA degrees from the Ohio University in Athens, Ohio and has worked for Du Pont De Nemours International and Geneva and Nova Chemicals International as marketing executive and later as a consultant.

Marion Greene

After earning her M.B.A. from the University of Texas in Texas, Greene moved to the Twin Cities, where she worked in marketing for Pillsbury and General Mills before shifting to the medical device industry, working for Guidant and St. Jude Medical.

Marsha Petrie Sue

Marsha Petrie Sue holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Home Economics from the California State University at Long Beach, as well as a Master of Business Administration degree from the University of Phoenix from which she graduated magna cum laude.

Michelle Benson

She later attended the University of St. Thomas, earning her M.B.A. She worked as an auditor and consultant at Deloitte & Touche, and currently works as the executive director of the Upper Midwest Security Alliance.

Paul Szabo

He received an M.B.A. from York University in 1975, was a Corporate Controller for Heede International Ltd. in 1975-76, and served the Director of Finance for TransCanada Pipelines Ltd. from 1977 to 1983.

Perween Warsi

Warsi was awarded an honorary MBA by the University of Derby in 1997 and appointed to the Department of Trade and Industry Advisory Committee on Competitiveness.

Piet Van Waeyenberge

In 1962 he obtained a Master of Science in Agricultural Economics at the University of Illinois Champaign (Urbana, IL USA) and in 1963 a Master of Business Administration at INSEAD (Fontainebleau, France).

Reuben Jeffery III

He then moved to Stanford University, where he received both an M.B.A. and a J.D. in 1981 (as part of the joint program between the Stanford Graduate School of Business and Stanford Law School).

Richard Hendler

Richard Michael Hendler is an American attorney and Clinical Associate Professor of Law in Business at New York University Stern School of Business where he teaches commercial law, entertainment law, and entrepreneurial law at the undergraduate and graduate levels and Law for the Management Executive for the EMBA program.

Rolandas Valiūnas

Then he continued his education in 1994 at the "Queen Mary & Westfield Coledge the University of London (in UK 1994), USA, at the Academy of International Law in Dallas, Texas, USA (1996). From 1999 to 2000 he studied at the Baltic Management Institute (BMI), the Executive Master of Business Administration (EMBA) program (2000). After that, he is a lecturer in the course of the BMI Institute "Corporate Governance".

Scott McNealy

Instead, his background was in business, having earned a Bachelor of Arts in Economics from Harvard and an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business.

Sean Tufts

After retiring from the NFL in 2006, Tufts returned to the University of Colorado at Boulder to pursue his Master of Business Administration at the university's Leeds School of Business.

Seinäjoki University of Applied Sciences

Degree programme in International Business (BBA), Master's Degree programme in International Business Management (MBA) and Degree programme in Nursing (RN).

Thomas E. Dooley

Dooley received a Bachelor of Science degree from St. John's University in New York City in 1978 and an Master of Business Administration from the New York University Stern School of Business in 1984.

University of New York Tirana

Since September 2004, UNYT, in collaboration with Institut Universitaire Kurt Bösch in Sion, Switzerland and the University of Sunderland, offers a Master of Business Administration program.

Vic Emery

Involved in athletics from a young age, Emery was a graduate of the University of Western Ontario and the Harvard Business School where he earned an MBA.