Rady School of Management

The Rady School of Management at the University of California, San Diego is a graduate-level business school offering full-time and part-time Master of Business Administration (MBA) degree programs in addition to executive education. The Rady School of Management is the newest professional school at the University of California, San Diego, one of the top-ranked institutions in the U.S. for higher education and research. The Rady School of Management joins UCSD's three existing professional schools, the UC San Diego School of Medicine (ranked 14th nationally for research) the Graduate School of International Relations and Pacific Studies, and the Skaggs School of Pharmacy & Pharmaceutical Science.

Programs

The Rady School offers a Full-Time MBA program, a FlexMBA program for working professionals, as well as undergraduate and executive education courses. The MBA program's capstone course is known as "Lab-to-Market," over which students spend up to a full year studying (and in some cases implementing) the processes by which entrepreneurs explore, cultivate, and launch new ventures.

Founding dean

Robert S. Sullivan, Ph.D., was appointed founding dean on January 1, 2003. Prior to his arrival at UCSD, he served as dean of the Kenan-Flagler Business School at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and as dean of the Graduate School of Industrial Administration at Carnegie Mellon University.

Otterson Hall

Otterson Hall, named "in honor of the late William (Bill) Otterson, co-founder of UCSD CONNECT, in appreciation for his contributions to the San Diego business community and his impact on the region."

The $43M facility comprises convert|50000|sqft|m2|-3 of classrooms, offices, and community space, and will serve as the permanent home to the Rady School. The building provides views overlooking the Pacific Ocean, Salk Institute, Torrey Pines Golf Course, and the [http://www.flytorrey.com/ Torrey Pines Gliderport] . The building will be powered in part by a rooftop solar photovoltaic system.

The Beyster Institute

The Beyster Institute at the Rady School focuses on training, education and consulting in entrepreneurship and employee ownership. The Beyster Institute was established by Dr. J. Robert Beyster -- founder of Science Applications International Corporation in 2002. It became a part of the Rady School in 2004. [Dr. J. Robert Beyster with Peter Economy, The SAIC Solution: How We Built an $8 Billion Employee-Owned Technology Company, John Wiley & Sons (2007) p.185]

ee also

* List of business schools in the United States

References

External links

* [http://www.rady.ucsd.edu Rady School of Management]
* [http://radywire.wordpress.com The Wire, (the official Rady School blog)]
* [http://www.ucsd.edu University of California, San Diego]
* [http://www.beysterinstitute.org Beyster Institute at the Rady School]
* [http://sev.prnewswire.com/education/20070601/LAF09401062007-1.html Press release announcing Otterson Hall]