About Us
Rankings and Recognition
Marquette Business offers top-ranked programs and award-winning faculty, leading to successful students who perform at the highest levels.
Marquette Business Update
This monthly publication is a digest of college news, faculty research and media placements, student stories, alumni profiles, and a variety of other Marquette Business news.
College of Business Study Abroad Programs
Study at one of Marquette’s 36 study abroad programs spanning 20 different countries and all continents. We also offer Summer programs as well as graduate and undergraduate short-term faculty-led programs.
College Profile: Facts & Figures
Students
Fall 2012 Enrollment
- 1642 undergraduate students
- from 34 states, Puerto Rico and countries such as Canada, China, Korea, Philippines
- 633 graduate students
- 371 MBA
- 42 EMBA
- 201 MS students in Accounting, Applied Economics, and Human Resources programs
- 19 in other MS and certificate programs
Faculty
- 69 full-time faculty
- 84% with terminal degrees (PhD, DBA or JD)
- 57 journal articles in print or in press in 46 different journals since January 2009
- All course instructors are full-time or adjunct faculty, no courses taught by graduate assistants
Alumni
- Over 20,000 worldwide
Graduate Programs
- MBA - on campus and in Waukesha (among nation’s largest 35 part-time programs, ranked in US News & World Report as top 50 Part-time program); joint programs with Law, Political Science and Nursing
- Executive MBA – a hybrid online / in person program; students typically meet every other Saturday over the 17-month program (recently ranked in US News & World Report as 24th best EMBA program)
- MS programs in Accounting, Applied Economics, and Human Resources
Undergraduate Programs
- Majors
Accounting, Business Economics, Entrepreneurship, Finance, Human Resources, Information Technology, International Business, Marketing, Operations and Supply Chain Management, and Real Estate - Joint Degree Programs
BS/MS in Applied Economics, Accounting and Human Resources (5 year programs); BS/JD (6 year program) - Student Organizations
Professional student organizations include Beta Alpha Psi (Accounting); Marquette Economic Association, Family Enterprise Network (Entrepreneurship), Financial Management Association, HR Management Association, Information Technology Student Organization, International Business Student Association, The Marquette-ing Club, Operations and Supply Chain Management Student Chapter, Real Estate Club of Marquette as well as Delta Sigma Pi and the Go-Getters (the latter two for business students of any major)
College Organization
- 5 Academic Departments: Accounting, Economics, Finance, Management, Marketing plus an in-house International Business Studies program
- 4 Centers (Global Economics Studies, Real Estate, Supply Chain Management, and the Kohler Center for Entrepreneurship)
- Business Career Center
- 6 Endowed Chairs (Bell Chair in Real Estate, Coleman Chair in Entrepreneurship, Brennan and Kellstadt Chairs in Marketing, Flynn and Horngren Chairs in Accounting)
- The Applied Investment Management (AIM) and International Applied Investment Management (IAIM) programs in Finance. The AIM program was the first undergraduate business program selected as a Program Partner by the CFA Institute.
Facilities
- The College of Business Administration is in the David A. Straz, Jr. Hall.
- 21 classrooms and all faculty offices are in the building; all classrooms are equipped with high-tech facilities.
- There is one general computer lab with 32 work stations including one Bloomberg terminal and one research lab with 26 workstations including one Bloomberg terminal for the AIM/IAIM programs.
College History
- 1910 – School of Economics founded
- 1917 – Separating from Journalism, the Robert A. Johnston College of Economics is founded.
- 1923 – The college is renamed to the College of Business Administration, the name it bears today.
- 1928 – The college is admitted as the 40th and only Catholic member of the American Association of Collegiate Schools of Business, ranking it with the best in the nation.
- 1953 – First year of graduate program in business
- 2006 – Graduate School of Management founded to oversee all graduate programs
- 2008 – Over 20,000 graduates
- 2010-2011 – College of Business Administration celebrates its centennial