Tippie College of Business

The Tippie College of Business at The University of Iowa, established as the College of Commerce in 1921, is one of the oldest business schools in the United States. The College was the first academic division at the University of Iowa to be named for an alumnus, Henry B. Tippie, a 1949 accounting graduate from Belle Plaine, Iowa. The College is housed in the John Pappajohn Business Building on the university's Iowa City campus, named for Des Moines venture capitalist John Pappajohn, a 1952 graduate of the College.

Rankings

The Tippie College undergraduate program was ranked 68th in the nation by "Business Week Magazine" in 2007, down from 39th in 2006.

The Tippie MBA program consistently ranks near the top of the "Forbes Magazine" listing of fastest payback on an MBA degree. [http://www.forbes.com/lists/2005/95/Rank_1.html] It is also among the top twenty programs at a public university by "The Economist" and 50th best in the country by "US News and World Report".

Undergraduate program

Admission to the Tippie undergraduate program is competitive, with most students gaining admission the fall of their junior year. Admission is based on grade point average. A small cohort of 60 – 80 high-achieving students are admitted as freshmen. Approximately 60% of the students come from Iowa, and 35% from Illinois.

The undergraduate program features a dedicated career services center, the Pomerantz Career Center, and business writing center, The Frank Business Communications Center. Students participate in fourteen undergraduate organizations, including Delta Sigma Pi, Alpha Kappa Psi, Toastmasters, Women in Business, and the American Marketing Association. Honors students can join one of the oldest chapters (established in 1921) of the business honorary society, Beta Gamma Sigma.

Majors are offered in accounting, economics, finance, marketing, management information systems, and management. Students may also earn certificates in International Business, Entrepreneurship and Risk, Management and Insurance. The most popular major is finance, followed by marketing.

History

Isaac Althaus Loos shaped the early beginnings of the College by establishing a social science department, the School of Political and Social Science, which included commerce, economics and finance. In 1908, the word Commerce was added to the school name, and the School featured nearly 40 courses. In 1921, the College of Commerce was born; the college enrolled approximately 100 students, and employed 23 faculty members. Two years later, the College joined the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB).

In the 1950s, the College was reorganized into six departments and renamed the College of Business Administration. In 1994, the College moved into its present location, the Pappajohn Business Building, at the corner of Clinton and Market Street. William C. (Curt) Hunter serves as the college’s current dean.

ee also

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

External links

* [http://www.biz.uiowa.edu/ Homepage of Tippie College of Business]
* [http://www.uiowa.edu/ Homepage of The University of Iowa]