Joseph M. Katz Graduate School of Business

Katz Graduate School of Business
Established 1960
Type Public
Dean John T. Delaney
Academic staff 130
Postgraduates 922
Location Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
Campus Oakland (Main)
Endowment $50 million
Website www.katz.pitt.edu
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The Joseph M. Katz Graduate School of Business is the graduate business school of the University of Pittsburgh located in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The school enrolls approximately 240 full-time MBA students, 503 part-time students, 71 executive MBA students, and 52 doctoral students. Katz is part of Pitt Business, which refers to the collective capacity of Katz and the College of Business Administration (offers undergraduate business degrees), and five education and research centers.

History

The University of Pittsburgh introduced business education in 1907 as the Evening School of Economics, Accounts, and Finance with classes meeting in the Fulton Building on Sixth Street in Pittsburgh. and established the School of Economics in 1910. Three years later the School of Economics, named for the London School of Economics, was formally set up on Pitt's Oakland campus. The school was renamed the College of Business Administration in 1923.[1] Katz Graduate School of Business, established in 1960, grew out the College of Business Administration and became one of the 17 founding members of the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB) and the second school in the United States to offer the Executive MBA program. Katz offered the first one-year MBA program in the U.S. (1960s), and was one of the first business schools to offer an MBA and Master of Information Systems dual degree. In the 1990s Katz became the first to offer an MBA in Central Europe, and in 2002 launched a bioengineering dual-degree program. The Katz Graduate School of Business now oversees the administration of the undergraduate College of Business Administration.[2]

Campus

Mervis Hall, home of the Katz Graduate School of Business

Katz is housed in Mervis Hall on the University of Pittsburgh campus. The facilities include a 3,000-square foot Financial Analysis Laboratory features a trading room, a ticker for a realistic Wall Street trading room environment, a business library, a student kitchen, and a cafe area (Jazzman’s).

MBA program

Katz two-year students start in August and graduate 20 months later in April. The MBA curriculum is divided into two types of courses: Core courses and elective courses. Core courses are required of all MBA students and are intended to provide students with the breadth of knowledge to build a solid business foundation. Full-time MBA students are required to take 27 credits of core courses encompassing Finance, Accounting, Economics, Statistics, Decision Technology, Organizational Behavior, Marketing, Strategy, and Information Systems. Elective courses which total 30 credits are intended to provide depth in a particular concentration. MBA students typically choose one or two concentrations and then choose electives within those concentrations.[3]

The MBA program offers electives to concentrate in the following areas:[4]

Katz also offers four MBA certificates, which are designed to allow students to enhance the core curriculucm according to their career goals: Six Sigma Green Belt; Global Supply Chain Management/Supplier Diversity; Technology, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship; Organizational Leadership; and Leadership Development Program - Project Management.[5]

Katz is a partner of the CFA Institute. As a partner school, the finance curriculum covers 70% of the topics on the CFA exam. Katz also offers scholarships that fund students’ costs for pursuing a CFA.[6]

Accelerated and joint-degree programs

In 1963, the Katz Graduate School of Business launched the only MBA program in the world that presented the traditional two-year American format in less than one calendar year. The program begins in August and finishes the following July, covering the same ground that a traditional MBA program covers in two years. For added flexibility, Katz offers electives in the day and evening, as well as some Saturday courses. The one-year program is designed primarily for people with strong academic backgrounds in economics or business and substantial work experience.[7]

Katz offers six joint and dual degrees that allow students to earn their MBA while working simultaneously on a second degree.[8]

Rankings

School rankings (overall)
U.S. MBA
Bloomberg BusinessWeek[9] 54
Forbes[10] 51
U.S. News & World Report[11] 68
Worldwide MBA
Economist[12] 98
Financial Times[13] 83

For 2011, national rankings of Katz' MBA program include #51 by Forbes,[10] #54 by Bloomberg BusinessWeek,[14] and #68 by U.S. News and World Report.[11] In global rankings for 2011/2012, Katz was ranked #83 by Financial Times and #98 by The Economist.[13][12]

Other masters degrees

The financial lab in Katz's Mervis Hall simulates global financial markets.

The Master of Science (MS) in Accounting program is a full-time, 30-credit professional graduate degree program that also prepares students to take the Certified Public Accountant (CPA) exam. Students with an undergraduate accounting degree, will be able to broaden their skills by also taking graduate courses outside accounting and complete the program in two terms. Students with limited background in accounting take prerequisite courses as part of the program, which typically can be completed in four terms or fewer.[15]

Doctoral program

Katz offers a doctoral program that prepares students to become research-oriented faculty members.[16] Doctoral students can focus in seven areas of study: Accounting; Operations, Decision Sciences, and Artificial Intelligence; Information Systems; Finance; Organizational Behavior and Human Resources Management; Strategic Management; Marketing. The faculty and doctoral students closely collaborate with researchers across the University of Pittsburgh, one of the nation's leading research institutions. Katz is ranked 35th in North America and 38th in the world from 2006–2010 in Business School Research contribution.[17] One research focus that produced a lot of publications in Finance is M&A deals across many industries. Most faculty members are also very active in business projects from community development to consulting multinational companies.[16]

Executive education

The Katz Executive MBA (EMBA) Worldwide program provides students with the opportunity to study global business issues on three different continents-with sites in North America (Pittsburgh, Pa.), South America (São Paulo, Brazil), and Europe (Prague, Czech Republic). Students take most of their courses at the site most convenient to them; however, they also participate in three weeklong immersion sessions, called Global Executive Forums, with their EMBA Worldwide classmates at other sites.[18]

There are five education and research centers within Pitt Business. The centers provide some of the latest research on entrepreneurship, international business issues, ethics and leadership, economics and health and care work. Some centers also offer certificate programs which give students additional experience in relevant business issues.

The International Business Center (IBC), which was founded in 1990 as a joint venture of the Katz Graduate School of Business and Pitt's University Center for International Studies. The IBC was one of the first five national resource Centers for International Business Education and Research (CIBER) funded by the U.S. Department of Education, and remains one of only 31 such centers operating in the United States.[19]

Katz maintains international linkages with colleges and universities around the world to facilitate study and research abroad. These include Monterrey Institute of Technology in Monterrey, Mexico, Universidad Tecnica Federico Santa Maria, in Valparaíso, Chile, the Universitat Augsburg, the Hochschule Pforzheim, Universität Witten/Herdecke and the European Business School near Frankfurt.[20]

People

Faculty

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Alumni

The following individuals are graduates of the Katz Graduate School of Business.[21]

See also

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References

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  12. ^ a b "Which MBA". The Economist. 2011. http://www.economist.com/whichmba/full-time-mba-ranking. Retrieved 2011-10-16. 
  13. ^ a b "Global MBA Rankings". Financial Times. 2012. http://rankings.ft.com/businessschoolrankings/global-mba-rankings-2012. Retrieved 2012-2-14. 
  14. ^ "Business School Rankings and Profiles". BusinessWeek. 2010. http://www.businessweek.com/bschools/rankings/. Retrieved 2011-01-19. 
  15. ^ http://www.business.pitt.edu/katz/macc/index.php
  16. ^ a b http://www.business.pitt.edu/katz/phd/index.php
  17. ^ http://som.utdallas.edu/top100Ranking/searchRanking.php?t=w
  18. ^ http://www.business.pitt.edu/katz/emba/index.php
  19. ^ Pitt Business: About the International Business Center, accessdate=2009-01-29
  20. ^ Pitt Business: International Linkages, accessdate=2009-01-29
  21. ^ "Alumni Association Online Directory" (database, membership required). University of Pittsburgh Alumni Association. http://www.alumni.pitt.edu/connect/directory.php. Retrieved 2012-04-28. 

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