Columbia Business School, founded in 1916, is the graduate business school of Columbia University in Manhattan, New York City. It is one of the six Ivy League Schools. It is famous for its financial and economics division with a prominent reputation among investors due to its association with Benjamin Graham. It has around 1,500 students and nearly 150 faculty members, with an acceptance rate of 18.2%. It is among the oldest business schools in the world.
The Business school faculty has five academic units (Accounting, Decision, Risk, & Operations, Finance & Economics, Management and Marketing) and offers abundant courses at undergraduate, graduate and doctoral levels.
The courses include degree and non-degree programs such as MBA, Executive MBA, Master of Science Program, and Ph.D.
The school also offers dual degrees where the MBA program can be combined with 11 other professional degrees such as law, engineering, medicine, and international affairs.
The U.S. News ranked it at no.7 in the Best Business School 2022, and it was at 8th position by Q.S. World University Rankings of Global MBA 2021.
The diversity and academic strengths reflect in their program, which is advantageous to their positioning as one of the leading business schools.
The school was always known for the high percentage of Wall Street placements as it had a strong stature in finance. However, slowly and steadily other sectors are also taking the pace mainly consulting a media & technology.
90% of MBA students had job offers 3 months after graduation with a median salary of $150,000. Top employers included McKinsey & Company, Bain & Co., Amazon, J.P. Morgan, KPMG, Microsoft and Adobe.
The primary sources of employment were school-facilitated interviews, on-campus interviews, and graduate-facilitated interviews.
The notable alumni are spread across from Wall Street to Broadway and entrepreneurship to politics. The list includes Warren Buffett(Business Magnate and CEO of Berkshire Hathaway), Michael Gould(Actor), Jordan Roth(President of Jujamcyn Theaters) and James P. Gorman(CEO of Morgan Stanley.
The Columbia Business school is the right mix of business management and academic programs, which leads to personal and professional development on a bigger scale.
