The Kelley School of Business of Indiana University is one of the top ranked business schools in the USA. It is home to approximately 4,600 full-time students on its Bloomington campus and approximately 1,200 students on its Indianapolis campus.
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Rankings
The Kelley school is one of only five in the nation for whom all undergraduate and graduate programs rank in the top 25 of the US News & World Report college rankings. Kelley was ranked 10th for its undergraduate B.Sc. program in business by U.S. News in their 2006 rankings and eighteenth for the MBA program by Business Week in 2006; it was ranked fifth for regional MBA programs by the Wall Street Journal in 2007. US News & World Report placed it among the top business schools in the country at #24 in the 2007 edition. Its top-ranked MBA program for full-time residential students has been cited in Business Week as one of the favorites of corporate recruiters looking for general managers, marketing talent, and finance graduates. Other definitive publications, including Money and Princeton Review, have recognized various Kelley programs as among the best. Teaching quality in core classes has been ranked #1 in the nation by both the Princeton Review and Business Week in their latest issues. The school's doctoral program has contributed to overall teaching and research excellence by sending more than 1,000 doctoral graduates to key positions in industry and academe. Most recently, Kelley's undergraduate school was ranked 10th in the nation by Business Week, and 4th among all public business schools. In 2006, U.S. News ranked these undergraduate programs in the top 10 in the nation: Accounting: 7th
Entrepreneurship: 3rd
Finance: 7th
Management: 5th
Management Information Systems: 7th
Marketing: 7th
Production/Operations Management: 6th
Quantitative Analysis: 8th
Supply Chain: 10th
Real Estate: 7th
The entrepreneurship program was ranked #1 in the nation among public business schools in the same report. The 2005 public accounting report ranked the undergraduate accounting program 9th in the nation and the graduate program as 6th in the nation.
The Godfrey Graduate and Executive Education Center
The Godfrey center has 180,000 square feet (17,000 m²) of classroom and office space for use by graduate students, corporate recruiters, executive visitors and administrators. It houses administrative offices for the Master of Business Administration program, Kelley Executive Partners, the Johnson Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation, and graduate accounting programs. The Kelley School renamed its Graduate and Executive Education Center in honor of William J. Godfrey, an alumnus and successful businessman who has bequeathed land valued at $25 million. The building features classrooms and other facilities that maximize student-faculty interaction in a collaborative setting. The most wired building on the Bloomington campus, it features both direct and wireless connectivity that will help students both inside and outside the classroom. Other special features include a "trading room," which includes informational resources comparable to most Wall Street firms. Princeton Review recently ranked Kelley's quality of facilities as #3 in the nation.
History
The School was established as "School of Commerce and Finance" of Indiana University in 1920. It was subsequently renamed "School of Business Administration" in 1933 and "School of Business" in 1938. In 1997 it was named "Kelley School of Business" after its alumnus, E.W. Kelley, Chairman of The Steak n Shake Company, gave a substantial donation of $23 million. Initially it resided in the Commerce Building constructed in 1923 (William A. Rawles Hall since 1971), moving to the Business and Economics Building in 1940 (called Woodburn Hall since 1971) and finally to today's Business School building in 1966. Completed in 2003, the $33 million Graduate and Executive Education Center provides state-of-the-art learning facilities to the Kelley School's graduate and executive education students and houses some of the nation's top-ranked programs and research centers. Featuring elegant limestone and oak architecture, the building provides students and faculty with every imaginable technological advantage and connects with the undergraduate facilities via a two-story limestone walkway. In the Summer of 2005 interim Dean Dan Smith was appointed to be the new dean of the school, replacing Dean Dan Dalton who stepped down in 2004. In a ceremony on October 21, 2005, the Kelley School renamed its Graduate and Executive Education Center in honor of William J. Godfrey, an alumnus and successful businessman who has bequeathed land valued at $25 million. It is the single largest gift in the Kelley School's history. [1]
List of programs
- B.S. in Business
- MBA (full-time, part-time, online)
- MBAa (MBA in Accounting)
- MPA (Master in Professional Accountancy)
- MSIS (M.S. in Information Systems)
- M.S. in Strategic Management
- M.S. in Finance
- Ph.D.
- A series of Executive Education programs, both online and on-location
Undergraduate concentrations
- Accounting
- Business Economics and Public Policy:
- Public Policy Analysis
- Economic Consulting
- Business Process Management
- Computer Information Systems
- Entrepreneurship
- Finance
- Finance-Real Estate
- International Business (second concentration only)
- Legal Studies
- Management
- Marketing
- Operations Management
- Business Information Systems
- Human Resource Management
- Supply Chain Management
MBA concentrations
- Finance
- Management
- Consulting
- International Business
- Strategic Management
- Marketing
- Entrepreneurship & Corporate Innovation
- Operations & Systems Management
- Information Systems
- Operations
- Decision Support Modeling
- Strategic Analysis of Accounting Information
References in Popular Culture
Controversy erupted during the end of the 2007 Spring Semester when a local student produced comedy television program mocked the Kelley school for its rivalry with The School of Public and Environmental Affairs or SPEA. [2]
Notable Alumni
- Cheryl Bachelder, former president of KFC
- Steve Bellamy, founder of The Tennis Channel
- Evan Bayh, United States Senator
- John Chambers, president and CEO of Cisco Systems
- Mark Cuban, owner of the Dallas Mavericks
- Todd Wagner, CEO of 2929 Entertainment; founder of Todd Wagner Foundation; co-founder of Broadcast.com
- Jeff Fettig, CEO of Whirlpool Corporation
- Jared Fogle, television personality for Subway
- Jane and Jean Ford, founders and co-presidents of Benefit Cosmetics
- Phil Francis, CEO of PetSmart
- Alan Graf, CFO of FedEx
- Hideo Ito, Chairman and CEO of Toshiba America
- Salman Shah, Caretaker Minister of Finance, Pakistan
- David Simon, president of Simon Properties
- Michael Szymanczyk, Chairman and CEO of Philip Morris USA, Inc.
- Randy Tobias, former CEO of Eli Lilly and current U.S. Ambassador
- Robert James Waller, author of Bridges of Madison County
- Jimmy Wales, former CEO of Bomis, founder of Wikipedia, president of the Wikimedia Foundation (did not graduate)
