UNC Kenan–Flagler Business School explained
UNC Kenan-Flagler Business School |
Former Name: | UNC Department of Commerce (1919-1950), UNC Graduate School of Business Administration (1950-1991) |
Established: | 1919 |
Dean: | Mary Margaret Frank |
Country: | United States |
The UNC Kenan-Flagler Business School is the business school of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, a public research university in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. Founded in 1919, the school was renamed to its current name in 1991 in honor of Mary Lily Kenan and her husband, Henry Flagler.[1]
The school offers programs for granting a bachelor of science in business administration, a master of business administration, an executive MBA, a master of accounting, a doctor of philosophy, a business certificate, and executive education programs. It is accredited by the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business.[2]
History
The school was established in 1919 as the Department of Commerce of the College of Arts of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
In 1991, Frank Kenan continued his family’s legacy of supporting UNC by giving $10 million toward a new Business School building. The university changed its business school's name to Kenan-Flagler Business School in honor of Mary Lily Kenan and her husband, Henry Morrison Flagler.
As of August 2023, the school's dean is Mary Margaret Frank.[3]
Rankings
Bi: | 20 |
Economist: | 16 |
Ft: | 38 |
Bwg: | 29 |
Forbes: | 13 |
Usnwrg: | 19 |
Vault: | 16 |
Bwu: | 10 |
Usnwru: | 7 |
MBA Full-time Program Rankings (additional to chart)
- U.S. News & World Report
- 7th in undergraduate business
- 19th in full-time MBA programs
- Beyond Grey Pinstripes (Aspen Institute)
- 7th in the United States[4]
- Princeton Review and Entrepreneur
- 11th for graduate programs in entrepreneurship[5]
MBA for Executives Programs
MBA@UNC Online
- The U.S. News & World Report ranked the MBA@UNC Online Program #1 in 2015[9]
MAC Program (Master of Accounting)
- Public of Accounting Report: 7[10]
Executive Development (Non-Degree Programs)
People
Faculty
Alumni
See also: List of University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill alumni.
- Gary Parr (BSBA '79), Deputy Chairman, Lazard Frères & Co.
- Hugh McColl Jr. (BSBA '57), Former Chairman and CEO, Bank of America Corporation
- Julian Robertson (BSBA '55), Chairman, Tiger Management
- Erskine Bowles (BSBA '67), former president, University of North Carolina System; former White House Chief of Staff; former head of Small Business Administration; former United Nations deputy envoy for tsunami relief
- John A. Allison IV, Chairman and Former CEO of BB&T (BSBA at UNC Kenan-Flagler) and current Director of Moelis & Company
- Mercer Reynolds: Businessman, finance chair of George W. Bush's Presidential campaign.
- David N. Senty, U.S. Air Force Major General
- G. Smedes York, MBA 1968, 33rd Mayor of Raleigh 1979-1983, Chairman of York Properties, Inc.
- Hubert C. Hegtvedt, U.S. Air Force Major General
- Michele Buck, MBA '87, CEO of The Hershey Company
See also
References
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Notes and References
- Web site: Our History UNC Kenan-Flagler Business School . 2022-10-12 . www.kenan-flagler.unc.edu . en.
- Web site: DataDirect - General. datadirect.aacsb.edu. 2020-04-01.
- Web site: Mary Margaret Frank named dean | UNC Kenan-Flagler .
- Web site: Beyond Grey Pinstrips.
- Web site: Princeton Review and Entrepreneur. 16 September 2014 .
- News: The Wall Street Journal . 29 September 2010.
- Web site: Bloomberg BusinessWeek. https://web.archive.org/web/20040529042023/http://www.businessweek.com/bschools/rankings/ . dead . May 29, 2004 .
- Web site: Executive MBA Ranking 2016 . 2017-02-28 . The Financial Times Ltd.
- Web site: U.S. News & World Report . 25 January 2015.
- Web site: Public of Accounting Report.
- Web site: Financial Times . The Financial Times Ltd . 2017-02-28.