Joseph M. Katz Graduate School of Business

Infobox University
name = Katz Graduate School of Business


image_size =150
established = 1960
type = Public
head_label = Dean
head = John T. Delaney
city = Pittsburgh
state = Pennsylvania
country = USA
campus = Oakland (Main)
undergrad = No
postgrad = 750
postgrad_label = full-time MBAs
faculty = 130
free_label = Endowment
free = $50 million
colors =
homepage = [http://www.katz.pitt.edu/ www.katz.pitt.edu]

The Joseph M. Katz Graduate School of Business is the business school of the University of Pittsburgh in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA, and ranks among one of the top business schools in the United States. The school enrolls approximately 200 full-time MBA students, 400 part-time students, and 70 doctoral students. The school also offers several MBA programs, as well as the Ph.D.The Katz School is ranked 48th in USNews 2007 edition, 36th in the nation and 56th in the world by the Financial Times of London ranking, one of the top ten public business schools by the Wall Street Journal, and one of the world's best in business by the Economist. The school’s information systems specialty was recently ranked 16th in the world.The University of Pittsburgh's College of Business Administration is also ranked Among the Nation’s Top 50 Undergraduate Business Schools by BusinessWeek Magazine.

History and Reputation

The University of Pittsburgh introduced business education in 1907, and its College of Business Administration, founded in 1923, was the country's fifth school of business. Katz was one of the 17 founding members of the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB) and the second school in the United States to offer the Executive MBA program. Katz offered the first one-year MBA program in the U.S. (1960s), and was one of the first business schools to offer an MBA and Master of Information Systems dual degree. In the 1990's Katz became the first to offer an MBA in Central Europe, and in 2002 launched a bioengineering dual-degree program.

According to the Financial Times, currently Katz MBA graduates enjoy among the highest salaries in consulting and in the industry Fact|date=December 2007 Check http://rankings.ft.com/global-mba-rankings/university-of-pittsburgh-katz.

The Katz School offers a variety of specialties which include: Accounting, Management Information Systems, Strategic Management, Marketing, Finance, Operations, Supply Chain Management, Human Resource Management, etc. Project courses with large corporations such as Mellon Financial, Westinghouse, Glaxosmithkline, and PNC Bank are commonly available to students. In addition, students have the opportunity to visit the New York Stock Exchange through the investments practicum, and perform business research in Europe through enrollment in an international business course.

Katz has an outstanding reputation for attracting international students. The entering class is currently composed of 51% international students from countries such as Brazil, China, Germany, Greece, India, Japan, Mexico, Peru, Nigeria, Taiwan, among others. Admissions to the prestigious business school are known to be highly selective, all matriculants typically score in the top 15 percent of applicants on the Graduate Management Admissions Test, and only a small number of applicants are admitted to the program each year.

ee also

*List of United States business school rankings
*List of business schools in the United States

External links

* [http://www.katz.pitt.edu/ Website]
* [http://www.katzis.org/ Management Information Systems at Pitt Business]
* [http://www.pitt.edu/ University of Pittsburgh Website]