Hult International Business School (also known as Hult Business School or Hult) is a

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. Hult is named for the school's benefactor

Bertil Hult Bertil Eric Hult (born February 10, 1941) is a Swedish billionaire, known for founding educational and language school company EF Education First in 1965, and for being the patron and namesake of Hult International Business School. In 1971, he mo ...

. Hult offers

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, and MBA degree programs, as well as

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through Ashridge Executive Education, housed on the Ashridge Estate campus. Hult is the successor of the Arthur D. Little School of Management, founded in 1964 in

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, and of the Ashridge Business School, founded in 1959 in Ashridge, England. The school is patron to the

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, a student entrepreneur competition.

History

American background

The ''Arthur D. Little School of Management'' was founded in 1964 by

Arthur Dehon Little Arthur Dehon Little (December 15, 1863 – August 1, 1935) was an American chemist and chemical engineer. He founded the consulting company Arthur D. Little and was instrumental in developing chemical engineering at the Massachusetts Insti ...

. Originally developed as an executive management education program, the school began to grant degrees after receiving full accreditation by the

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in 1976. In 1996, the Arthur D. Little School of Management formed a partnership with

Boston College Boston College (BC) is a private Jesuit research university in Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts. Founded in 1863, the university has more than 9,300 full-time undergraduates and nearly 5,000 graduate students. Although Boston College is classifie ...

Carroll School of Management The Wallace E. Carroll School of Management (CSOM) is the business school of Boston College in Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts. The school is regularly ranked among the best business schools in the United States, particularly its undergraduate progr ...

in order to share access to faculty and facilities.

British background

In 1921, future British Prime Minister

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acquired Ashridge House, in

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, United Kingdom, through a trust, with the intent to establish a college at the estate. In 1929, Ashridge was formally established as the ''College of Citizenship'' with the backing of the

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, under the academic advisory of Arthur Bryant, famed English economic historian. In 1959, the college was re-established as a school of management under the name ''Ashridge Business School''.

International era

In 2002, Swedish billionaire

purchased the Arthur D. Little School of Management, which resulted in the school's reorganization and reestablishment as Hult International Business School in 2003. Under its restructuring, Hult established a new curriculum oriented on

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, which led to the establishment of Hult's global campuses in Dubai (2008), San Francisco (2010), Shanghai (2011), and New York (2014). In 2007, Hult acquired Huron University in London, a private American university located in London's

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neighborhood, which subsequently was reestablished as Hult International Business School's London campus. In 2014, Hult International Business School acquired and merged with Ashridge Business School, creating one of the largest business schools in the world. After 2015, the two schools began operating as a singular entity, with the establishment of Ashridge Executive Education as Hult's executive program. Hult opened its

campus in London, near the

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financial centre, in 2014.

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, supported by Hult International Business School, launched the Business Professor of the Year Award in 2012.

Campuses

Hult maintains 7 campuses across 6 countries and serves approximately 3,000 students: two

and

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campuses (London and Boston), three postgraduate campuses that serve as summer rotational campuses (San Francisco, Shanghai and Dubai) one solely postgraduate campuses (New York City), and one

campus ( Ashridge Estate in

, United Kingdom). Students are encouraged to rotate between campuses during their programs. The Hult London Undergraduate Campus, built by British firm

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, won the Royal Institute of British Architects National Award in 2015.

Academics

Hult's degrees are accredited under the British Accreditation Council of Higher Education and the

. Hult also conducts business and market research out of its global research centers. Hult International Business School has an acceptance rate of 28%. It has over 19,000 alumni in over 156 countries. The

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classifies Hult as a ''More Selective Institution''.

Rankings

Hult's

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program was ranked #17 in The Economist's ranking of Masters in Management programs worldwide in 2019. In 2020, Hult's Ashridge Executive Education was ranked #16 in the

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Executive Education Top 50 Schools list.

EY Tech MBA by Hult

On 1 July 2020, Hult and

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(EY) announced the EY Tech MBA by Hult, consisting of online learning, practical experiences, insight papers and a capstone project. This MBA is now offered by EY free to all its people, regardless of rank or location and can be done over any duration. The curriculum is updated every four months.

Hult Prize

Hult International Business School is the lead sponsor of the Hult Prize (formerly Hult Global Case Challenge), an annual international case competition launched in 2010 that asks students to find solutions to global social challenges. The Prize is a partnership between Hult International Business School, the Clinton Global Initiative, and the

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. The best teams from each regional event advance to a global final, at which a single winning team is chosen.

provides a $1 million cash grant to help fund the winning solution.

Notable alumni

* Thabo Mbeki, 2nd

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* Htin Kyaw, 9th President of Myanmar * Luis Abinader, current

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* Gary Smith, CEO of Ciena * André Bier Gerdau Johannpeter, CEO of Gerdau * Hixonia Nyasulu, Chairwoman of

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, Founder of Honeywell Group and ''

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Africa's 40 Richest'' *

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, CEO of

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* Shaun Gregory, CEO of

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, 2016 ''

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's Top 5 African Innovators'' & 2014 ''

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'' * Anil Shastri, Indian parliamentarian; son of former Prime Minister

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Mbaranga Gasarabwe Mbaranga Gasarabwe (born 1959) is a Rwandan diplomat who served as Deputy Special Representative for the United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in Mali (MINUSMA) and Resident Coordinator in Mali from 2015 until 2021. G ...

, United Nations Assistant Secretary-General for Safety and Security * Juan Cohen, parliamentarian in the

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, Barbados' Ambassador to Brazil

References

External links

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