Babcock Graduate School of Management

Infobox University


name = Babcock Graduate School of Management
established = 1969
type = Private
dean = Ajay Patel
city = Winston-Salem
state = North Carolina
country = USA
students = ~500
faculty = 39
staff = 40
campus = Urban
website = [http://www.mba.wfu.edu www.mba.wfu.edu]

The Babcock Graduate School of Management is one of the graduate schools of Wake Forest University. Established in 1969, it admitted its first classes of full-time and executive students in 1971 and presented its first graduating class in 1973. The Babcock School was established with a gift from the Mary Reynolds Babcock Foundation and named in honor of Charles H. Babcock, a noted businessman and philanthropist who influenced civic, cultural and business development in Winston-Salem and North Carolina.

In 1985, the Babcock Graduate School of Management earned its accreditation from the AACSB, and in 1993, the school moved into the newly constructed Worrell Professional Center, the first building in the nation to house both graduate business and law schools under one roof. In 1987, Babcock launched its evening MBA program in Winston-Salem, followed by an evening MBA program in Charlotte in 1995 and a Saturday MBA program in Charlotte in 2004. The school has offered an executive MBA program, now known as the Fast-Track Executive MBA Program, in Winston-Salem since the school opened. It is the oldest program of its kind in the Southeast. cite web|url=http://www.mba.wfu.edu/download.aspx?id=290|title=Chronological History of Wake Forest University|publisher=Babcock Graduate School of Management]

International Relationships

The Babcock School has long-standing relationships with leading international business schools including eight international programs that allow faculty and students from each school to teach and study at the other. The partner schools are Bordeaux School of Business, France; EM-Lyon Graduate School of Management, France; European Business School, Germany; Indian Institute of Management-Calcutta, India; Institute of Business Studies, Russia; University of Kaiserslautern, Germany; WHU-Otto Beisheim Graduate School of Management, Germany and Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration, Austria. [ [http://www.mba.wfu.edu/default.aspx?id=235 Exchange Programs] ;Babcock Graduate School of Management]

Rankings

The Babcock Graduate School of Management is consistently ranked among the world's best graduate business schools. It is currently #2 in regional school rankings by The Wall Street Journal, #10 in the world by Beyond Grey Pinstripes (for preparing its MBA graduates for social and environmental stewardship), and among the top 50 U.S. business schools by BusinessWeek, América Economia, Financial Times, The Economist, Forbes and U.S.News & World Report.

• Entrepreneurship - Entrepreneur Magazine ranked Babcock's entrepreneurship programs #17 in the nation, and Stan Mandel, director of the Angell Center for Entrepreneurship, has been recognized as the #3 entrepreneurial program director in the country.
• Return on Investment - Forbes calculated that, on average, it takes Wake Forest's full-time graduates 3.4 years to break even on their MBA investment, and ranked Babcock #12 in the nation for evening MBA program return on investment. [ [http://www.mba.wfu.edu/default.aspx?id=37 Wake Forest MBA Rankings] ; Babcock Graduate School of Management]
• Technology - Based in part upon its far-reaching implementation of technology in the Babcock Graduate School of Management, Wake Forest University was declared a best-practice organization for technology usage by the American Productivity & Quality Center [http://www.apqc.org (APQC)] and AACSB International. [ [http://www.aacsb.edu/Publications/printnewsline/NL2000/flstudy.asp Groundbreaking Study Aims to Help Management Educators Cope With New Technology] ; AACSB International]

MBA Programs

The Babcock School offers full-time, executive, evening and Saturday MBA programs to meet the needs of a variety of students. In addition, it offers several joint degree programs.

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ee also

*List of United States business school rankings
*List of business schools in the United States
*Wake Forest University
*Wake Forest University School of Medicine

References