- Kenan-Flagler Business School
UNC-Chapel Hill programs
name = Kenan-Flagler Business School
image_size = 250
caption = Kenan-Flagler Business School
location = Chapel Hill,North Carolina
established = 1919
dean = James W. Dean Jr.
website = [http://www.kenan-flagler.unc.edu/ Kenan-Flagler Business School]The Kenan-Flagler Business School at the
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill serves the community as a world-renowned business education institution.History
Established in 1919 as the Department of Commerce of UNC's College of Arts, the School was renamed the Kenan-Flagler Business School in
1991 to honor two prominent American business families and benefactors of the School: philanthropist Mary Lily Kenan Flagler and her husband,Henry Morrison Flagler . The renaming was in recognition of a gift from Frank Hawkins Kenan, another Kenan family member and benefactor of the school's Kenan Institute of Private Enterprise.In 1997, the McColl Building opened at Kenan-Flagler to complete today's campus. With 191,000 square-feet,
Hugh McColl 's namesake has more than tripled the space that the school occupied at Carroll Hall.Rankings
Kenan-Flagler's MBA program is consistently ranked among the top 20 nationwide by leading business publications. It ranks perennially in the top 5 offered by public universities.
* 6th Nationally byThe Wall Street Journal , 2007 [cite web |title=National Ranking |url=http://www.careerjournal.com/reports/bschool07/20070917-table-national.html |year=2007 |publisher=The Wall Street Journal |accessdate=2007-08-19]
** 2nd for Technology/Telecommunications/Internet
** 2nd for Health Care Products and Services
** 5th for Excellence in Social Responsibility
** 8th for Management Consulting
** 9th for Consumer Products
** 9th for Excellence in MarketingThe MBA program is ranked 14th by
Forbes , 17th byBusinessWeek , and 19th byU.S. News & World Report . [cite web |title=Best Business Schools |url=http://www.forbes.com/careers/2007/08/16/best-business-schools-biz-07mba_cz_kb_0816bschool_land.html |year=2007 |publisher=Forbes |accessdate=2007-09-26] [cite web |title=2006 MBA Programs |url=http://www.businessweek.com/bschools/06 |publisher=BusinessWeek |accessdate=2007-04-21] [cite web |title=America's Best Graduate Schools 2008: Top Business Schools |url=http://www.usnews.com/usnews/edu/grad/rankings/mba/brief/mbarank_brief.php |publisher=U.S. News & World Report. |accessdate=2007-04-21] AFinancial Times report ranked UNC Kenan-Flagler 20th nationwide.Kenan-Flagler's Executive MBA is ranked 5th in the nation by BusinessWeek. [cite web |title=2005 EMBA Rankings |url=http://www.businessweek.com/bschools/05/emba_rank.htm |publisher=BusinessWeek |accessdate=2007-09-27] The Undergraduate Business program ranks 5th nationally and the Master of Accounting program ranks 9th according to U.S. News & World Report. [cite web |title=America's Best Colleges 2007: Best Undergraduate Business Programs |url=http://www.usnews.com/usnews/edu/college/rankings/brief/topprogs_brief.php |publisher=U.S. News & World Report |accessdate=2007-04-21] [cite web |title=UNC Kenan-Flagler Master of Accounting Program|url=http://www.kenan-flagler.unc.edu/Programs/MAC/rank.cfm |publisher=UNC Kenan-Flagler Business School |accessdate=2007-05-20]
MBA Programs
Kenan-Flagler offers its students four MBA degree programs.
* [http://www.kenan-flagler.unc.edu/Programs/MBA/ Full Time MBA]
* [http://www.kenan-flagler.unc.edu/programs/emba/mbaprograms/weekend/index.cfm OneMBA (Global) MBA for Executives]
* [http://www.kenan-flagler.unc.edu/programs/emba/mbaprograms/evening/index.cfm Evening MBA for Executives]
* [http://www.kenan-flagler.unc.edu/programs/emba/mbaprograms/weekend/index.cfm Weekend MBA for Executives]References
ee also
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List of United States business school rankings
*List of business schools in the United States
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