Broad School Profile

The Eli Broad College of Business/Eli Broad Graduate School of Management at Michigan State University is home to nearly 5,000 undergraduate students and more than 700 graduate students. It is consistently ranked nationally among the top business schools by recruiters and alumni. With five departments of study, eight undergraduate concentrations, eight masters-level programs, four PhD programs and a dynamic executive development program, its mission is to create leading-edge, useable knowledge to develop the competencies of the strategic change leader for the global, multicultural marketplace.

History

Founded in 1855 as the nation’s first landgrant university, Michigan State University served as the prototype for 69 land-grant institutions later established under the Morrill Act of 1862 and was the first institution of higher learning in the United States to teach scientific agriculture. The Eli Broad College of Business traces its history to 1874, when double-entry bookkeeping concepts were first taught. In 1927, The School of Hotel, Restaurant and Institutional Management was established; now it is The School of Hospitality Business, an independent, industry-specific school within the Broad School. In 1991, Eli Broad endowed the college with a $20 million gift, which resulted in the naming of the school in his honor.

Total enrollment, as of Spring 2003

Undergraduate ................................................................................ 5,237
MBA
Master’s ............................................................................................141
Doctoral ............................................................................................. 62
Executive Development Programs, participants ..................................... 4,000

James B. Henry Center for Executive Development,
Lansing, Mich., attendees ............................................................... 26,000
Management Education Center, Troy, Mich., attendees ......................... 74,000
Degrees conferred, Summer 2002-Spring 2003 Undergraduate ................................................................................ 1,205

MBA

Master’s ............................................................................................. 89
Doctoral ............................................................................................... 8

Faculty, as of July 1, 2003

Full-time (tenured, tenure track and full-time lecturers) ...........................120

Rankings, as of Spring 2003

Undergraduate U.S. News & World Report .............................................. 25
MBA
Executive MBA Business Week .............................................................. 27
Executive Development Programs iSource (supply chain enablers) ....... top 100

Broad School Facilities (opening date)

Kellogg Hotel & Conf. Center ................................... (1951, renovated 1988)
(classrooms, food service laboratory and learning environments for The School of Hospitality Business)
Eppley Center ......................................................... (1961; renovated 2001)
Management Education Center, Troy, Mich. .................. (1975; renovated 2001)
North Business Complex .................................................................. (1992)
James B. Henry Center for Executive Development ............................. (2001)