The Marriott School of Business is the
business school
A business school is a university-level institution that confers degrees in business administration or management. A business school may also be referred to as school of management, management school, school of business administration, or ...
of
Brigham Young University
Brigham Young University (BYU, sometimes referred to colloquially as The Y) is a private research university in Provo, Utah. It was founded in 1875 by religious leader Brigham Young and is sponsored by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-d ...
(BYU), a
private university
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owned by
the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
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(LDS Church) and located in
Provo, Utah
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. It was founded in 1891 and renamed in 1988 after
J. Willard Marriott, founder of
Marriott International
Marriott International, Inc. is an American multinational company that operates, franchises, and licenses lodging including hotel, residential, and timeshare properties. It is headquartered in Bethesda, Maryland. The company was founded by ...
, and his wife Alice following their $15 million endowment gift to the school.
The school is housed in the
N. Eldon Tanner Building and supports 137 full-time faculty and approximately 200 adjunct, part-time or visiting faculty, full-time staff and students who teach. It has approximately 2,100 undergraduate and 1,200 graduate students, and approximately 62 percent of its student body are bilingual. As of 2019, its alumni base numbers 55,000.
Description
Going by several different names since its inception in 1891, the business school at BYU had been known as the Marriott School of Management since 1988, when
Marriott International
Marriott International, Inc. is an American multinational company that operates, franchises, and licenses lodging including hotel, residential, and timeshare properties. It is headquartered in Bethesda, Maryland. The company was founded by ...
founders
J. Willard and
Alice Marriott
Alice Sheets Marriott (October 19, 1907 – April 17, 2000) was an American entrepreneur and philanthropist. She was married to J. Willard Marriott, founder of the hospitality company Marriott Corp.
Early life and career
Marriott was born in ...
made a $15 million (equivalent to $ million in ) donation to the school. In 2017, the name was changed to the Marriott School of Business.
The Marriott School is housed in the
N. Eldon Tanner Building and offers five undergraduate and six graduate degrees.
Ethical decision-making is strongly emphasized at the school: undergraduate students are required to complete 14 hours of religion coursework for graduation, all Marriott School students must take at least one course in management ethics, and both students and faculty must commit to abide by the
university's honor code. The school also exhibits a unique culture because the majority of its student and faculty are members of the LDS Church.
Many Marriott School students obtain a level of foreign language proficiency while serving as
LDS missionaries. (Sixty-five percent of the student body is
bilingual
Multilingualism is the use of more than one language, either by an individual speaker or by a group of speakers. It is believed that multilingual speakers outnumber monolingual speakers in the world's population. More than half of all ...
.) Consequently, the Marriott School sponsors high-proficiency business language courses in 11 languages. The school claims over 53,000 alumni and is accredited by the
Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business
The Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business, also known as AACSB International, is an American professional organization. It was founded as the American Assembly of Collegiate Schools of Business in 1916 to provide accreditation to ...
.
History
In 1891, Brigham Young Academy, the predecessor to BYU, formed the ''Commercial College'', which offered coursework in business education. A decade later (1901), the college began offering its first four-year degree program.
After Brigham Young Academy was separated into
Brigham Young High School
Brigham Young High School was a private high school in Provo, Utah, United States, first known as Brigham Young Academy (BYA). The school later became attached to Brigham Young University (BYU) with its official name being Brigham Young Universit ...
and Brigham Young University in 1903,
the college was renamed the ''College of Commerce and Business Administration'' as part of the university. The next decade was tough for the college, as "BYU struggled through the
World War I
World War I (28 July 1914 11 November 1918), often abbreviated as WWI, was List of wars and anthropogenic disasters by death toll, one of the deadliest global conflicts in history. Belligerents included much of Europe, the Russian Empire, ...
, a
flu epidemic
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hatclosed the school during the fall term of 1918, and school indebtedness that resulted in the 1918 LDS purchase of both BYU's assets and debts."
Starting in 1921, the college was housed in the
Maeser Building, where it would remain for 13 years.
The
Wall Street Crash of 1929
The Wall Street Crash of 1929, also known as the Great Crash, was a major American stock market crash that occurred in the autumn of 1929. It started in September and ended late in October, when share prices on the New York Stock Exchange coll ...
significantly depleted LDS Church funds, which caused the church to consider closing BYU. However, "the transference of a number of church junior colleges allowed BYU to remain in operation."
By 1935 the church regained its financial footing and provided more aid to BYU, the school growing slowly over the next ten years. The business college subsequently began offering master's degrees in 1939;
however, the programs were hit hard beginning in 1941 when its enrollment (particularly that of men) dropped due to U.S. involvement in
World War II
World War II or the Second World War, often abbreviated as WWII or WW2, was a world war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. It involved the World War II by country, vast majority of the world's countries—including all of the great power ...
.
But later that decade, U.S. military veterans returned to school, and in 1945 enrollment doubled. William F. Edwards oversaw the college's growth over the next several years until 1957, when the school was re-branded as the ''College of Business'' and
Weldon J. Taylor was appointed as its first dean.
A year later (1958) the business school held its first management conference, and in 1960 the school was moved to the newly completed
Jesse Knight Building The Jesse Knight Building, also known as the JKB, is a building that houses classrooms on the Brigham Young University campus in Provo, Utah.
Built in 1960 and named after Jesse Knight, the building was first occupied by the BYU Commercial College ...
.
![MaeserBuilding](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/84/MaeserBuilding.JPG)
A
Master of Business Administration
A Master of Business Administration (MBA; also Master's in Business Administration) is a postgraduate degree focused on business administration. The core courses in an MBA program cover various areas of business administration such as accounti ...
(MBA) program was added in 1961, and the school formed its National Advisory Council in 1966. In 1973, the school bestowed its first International Executive of the Year Award on
AT&T
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president Robert D. Lilley.
Bruce B. Orton served as interim dean of the school for a year until 1975, when
Merrill J. Bateman
Merrill Joseph Bateman (born June 19, 1936) has been a general authority of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) since 1992, originally as a member of the Second Quorum of the Seventy. He is currently an emeritus general a ...
was recruited from a management position at candy-maker
Mars, Inc.
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Mars wa ...
to become the dean. That same year, the school was separated into the ''School of Management'' for undergraduate studies and the ''Graduate School of Management'', which grouped together the MBA,
MPA,
MOB, and
MAcc
The Master of Accountancy (MAcc, MAcy, or MAccy), alternatively Master of Science in Accounting (MSA or MSAcy) or Master of Professional Accountancy (MPAcy, MPAcc or MPAc), is a graduate professional degree designed to prepare students for public ...
programs.
A year later (1976), the business school created a
School of Accountancy within its jurisdiction and printed its first issue of ''Exchange'' magazine (now ''Marriott Alumni Magazine''). In 1977, the BYU Management Society was organized.
In 1979,
William G. Dyer became dean of the school. Dyer oversaw the construction of the
N. Eldon Tanner Building, which was dedicated in 1982. In 1983, an
Executive MBA
A Master of Business Administration (MBA; also Master's in Business Administration) is a postgraduate degree focused on business administration. The core courses in an MBA program cover various areas of business administration such as accounti ...
program was added, and in 1984
Paul H. Thompson was appointed dean of the school. Two years later (1986), the International Student Sponsor Program was started, which continues to provide financial assistance to married LDS international students to this day. In 1988, the name of the school was changed to ''Marriott'' School of Management in honor of its benefactors—
Marriott International
Marriott International, Inc. is an American multinational company that operates, franchises, and licenses lodging including hotel, residential, and timeshare properties. It is headquartered in Bethesda, Maryland. The company was founded by ...
founders
J. Willard and
Alice Marriott
Alice Sheets Marriott (October 19, 1907 – April 17, 2000) was an American entrepreneur and philanthropist. She was married to J. Willard Marriott, founder of the hospitality company Marriott Corp.
Early life and career
Marriott was born in ...
—following their $15 million donation to the school. That same year, the
Army
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and
Air Force
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ROTC
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Overview
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programs became a part of the Marriott School.
In 1989,
K. Fred Skousen became dean of the school. In that year, the school's endowment exceeded $10 million, and the school was awarded a Center for International Business Education and Research (CIBER) grant by the
U.S. Department of Education. In 1993, the Organizational Leadership and Strategy Department was created, and a year later the school instituted a limited-enrollment policy. Also in 1994, the school began offering a minor in management. By 1998, the school's endowment had reached $40 million and the Institute of Public Management was renamed in honor of
George W. Romney, who during his lifetime served as chairman of
American Motors Corporation
American Motors Corporation (AMC; commonly referred to as American Motors) was an American automobile manufacturing company formed by the merger of Nash-Kelvinator Corporation and Hudson Motor Car Company on May 1, 1954. At the time, it was the ...
,
Governor of Michigan
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, and
U.S. Secretary of Housing and Urban Development
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. That same year,
Ned C. Hill was named dean of the Marriott School.
The school's Center for Economic Self-Reliance (CESR) was formed in 2003, and the Information Systems Department was created in 2005. That same year the CESR also participated in the production of the
microcredit
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documentary ''Small Fortunes'', which aired nationwide on October 27, 2005, on
PBS. In 2006 the school's worldwide initiatives were organized under the Kay and Yvonne Whitmore Global Management Center, named for former
Kodak
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CEO
Kay Whitmore and his wife.
In 2006, members of the school's faculty were involved in controversy surrounding the
U.S. Republican Party presidential primaries. On October 9, Dean Hill and Associate Dean W. Steve Albrecht sent an e-mail to 50 BYU Management Society members and 100 members of the school's National Advisory Council asking them to support
Mitt Romney
Willard Mitt Romney (born March 12, 1947) is an American politician, businessman, and lawyer serving as the junior United States senator from Utah since January 2019, succeeding Orrin Hatch. He served as the 70th governor of Massachusetts ...
's bid for the U.S. presidency. Hill and Albrecht signed the message with their official BYU titles, sent the e-mail from a BYU e-mail address, and began the message "Dear Marriott School Friend." Both the LDS Church and BYU, as
tax-exempt
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, nonprofit organizations, are
prohibited by federal law from endorsing a particular candidate or political party. Albrecht said that he should not have sent it in his capacity as a BYU dean: "It wasn't something BYU did, it wasn't something I probably should have done, and it was bad judgment."
By 2007, the school's endowment reached $130 million, and in 2008, the Tanner Building Addition was dedicated. For 2013, the endowment reached $182.1 million.
Also during this year, the Finance Department was formed in an effort to strengthen curriculum and placement; the Center for Entrepreneurship and Technology was created in honor of former
Dell
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Dell sells personal computers (PCs), servers, data ...
CEO
Kevin Rollins
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and his wife Debra; and administrators announced the addition of a Recreation Management and Youth Leadership (RMYL) Department to the school. The latter department was formerly under BYU's College of Health and Human Performance and comprises the academic disciplines of leisure services management, therapeutic recreation,
Scouting
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administration, non-profit management, and youth leadership.
In August 2017, BYU announced the name would be changed from the Marriott School of Management to the Marriott School of Business.
In May 2018,
Brigitte C. Madrian, a behavioral economist from the faculty at the
Harvard Kennedy School
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, was named the ninth dean of the Marriott School of Business and is the first female to serve as dean.
Campus
![TNRB Tanner Building](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/da/TNRB_Tanner_Building.jpg)
The Marriott School is located on the campus of BYU, which is situated in the urban,
Wasatch Front
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area of
Provo, Utah
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. The school is principally housed inside the
N. Eldon Tanner Building (TNRB). At the building's construction announcement in 1980, BYU president
Dallin H. Oaks said that the Board of Trustees named it in honor of
N. Eldon Tanner
Nathan Eldon Tanner (May 9, 1898 – November 27, 1982) was a politician from Alberta, Canada, and a leader of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church). He served in the Legislative Assembly of Alberta from 1935 to 1952 ...
(a Canadian politician and counselor to four LDS Church
presidents) because he was known in Canada as "Mr. Integrity"—a title wished upon every Marriott School graduate. At the
groundbreaking
Groundbreaking, also known as cutting, sod-cutting, turning the first sod, or a sod-turning ceremony, is a traditional ceremony in many cultures that celebrates the first day of construction for a building or other project. Such ceremonies are ...
for the building on November 8, 1980, "explosives that were used to remove the soil showered unsuspecting spectators with dust and pebbles."
The Tanner Building was completed in late 1982 and dedicated on April 5, 1983, by
Gordon B. Hinckley
Gordon Bitner Hinckley (June 23, 1910 – January 27, 2008) was an American religious leader and author who served as the 15th President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) from March 1995 until his death in January 200 ...
.
Today, the seven-story, granite building houses Marriott School classrooms as well as professor and administration offices. A addition, costing $43 million and funded by donations, was dedicated on October 24, 2008, by alumnus
Thomas S. Monson
Thomas Spencer Monson (August 21, 1927 – January 2, 2018) was an American religious leader, author, and the 16th President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church). As president, he was considered by adherents of the rel ...
. The addition increased the building's capacity by 53 percent and provides 10 tiered classrooms, one network teaching room, one large assembly room, and 39 study rooms.
The Tanner Building is located directly west of central campus. To its immediate north is the
Gordon B. Hinckley Alumni and Visitors Center
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The building acts as a visitors center, c ...
and on-campus housing Helaman Halls. Its western and southern sides are covered by athletic facilities. Close by is also the newly renovated
Jesse Knight Building The Jesse Knight Building, also known as the JKB, is a building that houses classrooms on the Brigham Young University campus in Provo, Utah.
Built in 1960 and named after Jesse Knight, the building was first occupied by the BYU Commercial College ...
(JKB), where some business school classes are held. Additionally, a parking garage is located adjacent to the Tanner Building.
Academics
Organization and research
As part of the larger institution of BYU, the Marriott School is ultimately administered by
BYU's President and Board of Trustees. Under them, the school is directly managed by a Dean (currently
Brigitte C. Madrian), who is advised by three associate deans and the school's National Advisory Council. The school has nine academic departments, each overseen by a
department chair. The Marriott School student body has its own
student council
A student council (also known as a student union, associated student body or student parliament) is an administrative organization of students in different educational institutes ranging from elementary schools to universities and research or ...
, which serves an umbrella organization for Marriott School clubs. The school houses student chapters for national associations including the
Society for Human Resource Management, the Collegiate Entrepreneurs' Organization,
Rotaract
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, and
Net Impact
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. There is also a chapter of the honorary association
Beta Alpha Psi
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.
Faculty are grouped in one or more of seven "academic areas": accounting, business management (including business law, management communication, and managerial economics), finance, information systems, organizational leadership and strategy, public management, and recreation management and youth leadership. The school is also home to four research centers that organize research in different fields of business administration and establish liaisons between the Marriott School and the corporate world. Both undergraduate and graduate students may be invited to work as
teaching
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and
research assistant
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s, and some MAcc students teach accounting classes during the spring or summer terms, as well as at the
BYU's Salt Lake Center. However, research productivity is hampered by the fact that the Marriott School has no doctoral programs, and therefore, no doctoral students focused on research. The Marriott School faculty was ranked #64 nationally and #71 globally in 2008 for its research productivity in the ''
UTD Top 100 Business School Research Ranking''.
The Marriott School oversees two perennial publications: ''Economic Self-Reliance'' (a semi-annual, practitioner-focused publication that highlights research and best practices) and ''Marriott Alumni Magazine'' (a tri-annual publication that showcases innovative business research and ideas as well as news from the school and alumni).
Marriott School students and faculty are serviced by the Business and Economics Library within the
Harold B. Lee Library
The Harold B. Lee Library (HBLL) is the main academic library of Brigham Young University (BYU) located in Provo, Utah. The library started as a small collection of books in the president's office in 1876 before moving in 1891. The Heber J. Gr ...
, which houses an accounting lab and several
Bloomberg Terminal
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s. The MSM is accredited by the
Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business
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.
Curriculum and degrees offered
![Tanner building interior](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/25/Tanner_building_interior.jpg)
The Marriott School offers nine Bachelor of Science degree programs: Accounting, Finance,
Information Systems
An information system (IS) is a formal, sociotechnical, organizational system designed to collect, process, store, and distribute information. From a sociotechnical perspective, information systems are composed by four components: task, people ...
, Marketing, Human Resources, Strategy, Entrepreneurship, Experience Design and Recreation Therapy. Three minors are also offered to all students of BYU: Management, Non-profit Management, and Strategy.
The school offers six graduate degrees: the
MAcc
The Master of Accountancy (MAcc, MAcy, or MAccy), alternatively Master of Science in Accounting (MSA or MSAcy) or Master of Professional Accountancy (MPAcy, MPAcc or MPAc), is a graduate professional degree designed to prepare students for public ...
,
MBA
A Master of Business Administration (MBA; also Master's in Business Administration) is a postgraduate degree focused on business administration. The core courses in an MBA program cover various areas of business administration such as accounti ...
,
EMBA,
EMPA
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,
MISM, and
MPA. MBA students choose a major (Finance, Marketing, Supply Chain Management,
OBHR Organizational behavior and human resources (OBHR) is a field of study housed in most business schools that has evolved from the overlap in offerings and objectives from courses taught in organizational behavior and human resource management.
Org ...
, or Product Development) and a minor (Entrepreneurship, International Business, Strategy) if desired.
MAcc students choose either audit, tax, or PhD Prep.
Matriculation into the Marriott School as an undergraduate requires an application independent from normal acceptance to BYU. Once in the program, students go through a one-semester "core" where students in the block are in the same classes together as teams. All undergraduates must also complete a one-semester mentoring program where each student selects a Marriott School alumnus to converse with over the course of the semester.
The Marriott School's class schedules mirror those of the university: two 16-week semesters (fall and winter) and two terms over the summer break (spring and summer). Students must carry 12 credit hours in order to be considered a full-time student, and 18 credit hours is the maximum unless permission is granted to take more.
About 70% of student
tuition
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is funded by LDS Church
tithing
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funds, making tuition less expensive for church members than at similar private universities. Students not members of the church pay double the LDS tuition rate. For the 2014–2015 school year, Marriott School tuition for full-time LDS undergraduates is $2,500 per semester; for Marriott School graduate students, it is $5,810 per semester. All Marriott School students may apply for several school-specific and university-wide financial aid opportunities. Some are program-specific, others are need-based. The ''Hawes Scholars'' program is the highest scholarship distinction given to MBA students at the school. The program awards $10,000 to second-year students who are nominated by students or faculty, and who are then selected based on academic performance, leadership maturity, and a commitment to high ethical standards.
All Marriott School students may also earn the ''Global Management Certificate''. To earn the certificate, students are required to take a business language course, pertinent international business classes, and participate in an international field study or study abroad program. Undergraduate students may also qualify for graduation honors. ''
University Honors'' is the highest distinction BYU awards its graduates. Overseen by
Honors Program
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, the distinction requires students to complete an honors curriculum requirement, a Great Works requirement, an Advanced Languages requirement, a service requirement, an honors thesis requirement, a graduation portfolio that summarizes the student's honors experiences—all while maintaining at least a 3.5 GPA.
The Marriott School designates a faculty member as its honors coordinator, who aids students in finding faculty with whom to begin honors thesis research. The university also awards
Latin scholastic distinctions: summa cum laude, top 1 percent; magna cum laude, top 5 percent; and cum laude, top 10 percent.
Rankings, awards, and admissions
Many of the Marriott School's degree programs have received high rankings from independent sources. In 2014, the Marriott School's undergraduate programs were ranked #13 by ''
BusinessWeek
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''. The Marriott School's MBA program received rankings from several sources for 2016–2017: #23 ranking by ''BusinessWeek'', #17 by ''
Forbes
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'', and #27 by ''U.S. News & World Report''.
Among regional schools the program was ranked #1 by ''
The Wall Street Journal
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's'' most recent ranking (2007); and among business schools worldwide the MBA program was ranked #93 for 2014 by ''
Financial Times
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''. The undergrad program was also ranked #2 for return on investment (''BusinessWeek'', 2013) and #2 for its emphasis on ethics (''The Wall Street Journal'', 2007).
The Marriott School's
accounting program is the only program in the country to receive the
American Accounting Association
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's ''Innovation in Accounting Education Award'' twice. The first award, received in 1993, was for the development of an integrated approach to teaching accounting. The second award, received in 2007, was for the development of a
PhD Prep Track to prepare MAcc students to enroll in a PhD program after graduation. For 2013, the bachelor's degree in the School of Accountancy received two #3 rankings, one by ''
Public Accounting Report'' and the other by ''U.S. News & World Report''.
The same two reporting agencies also ranked the school's MAcc program #2 and #7 in the nation, respectively.
The Information Systems department was ranked #26 in the nation in 2003 for research, and its MISM program was ranked "among the top ten" by ''
TechRepublic
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It was founded in 1997 in Louisville, Kentucky, by Tom Cottingham and Kim S ...
'' in 2008.
The Marriott School is one of the few colleges at BYU that requires application from undergraduate students post-matriculation to the university itself. In addition to essays and pre-baccalaureate academics, students are evaluated on performance in 13 credit hours of "pre-management" coursework at BYU. For 2008, the MSM admitted 69 percent of undergraduate applicants, comprising a class of 1,783 students.
Applicants to the MBA program are evaluated based on commitment to the mission of BYU and the LDS Church, undergraduate academic performance,
Graduate Management Admission Test
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(GMAT) standardized test scores, essays, work experience, recommendations, written applications, and interviews, if applicable. For 2009, the MBA program admitted 51 percent of applicants or 478 students. The class averaged 672 on the GMAT, 3.54 GPA, and 45 months of work experience post-baccalaureate.
People
Students
The Marriott School student body comprises approximately 1,900 undergraduate and 1,100 graduate students. Nearly 75 percent of the students are
bilingual and about 30 percent speak a third language, most having lived abroad while serving a
mission
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Organised activities Religion
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*Mission (LDS Church), an administrative area of The Church of Jesus Christ of ...
for the LDS Church.
Approximately 16 percent of students are international students, 66 percent are married, and
whites
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Description of populations as ...
(
non-Hispanic) comprise 91 percent of the student body as of 2009.
Eighty-seven percent of domestic students hail from the West.
The mean and median ages of undergraduate students is 23, 21 percent of whom are female.
Female MBA students only account for 13 percent of the graduating class.
The Marriott School embodies a distinct
culture
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due to its affiliation with the LDS Church. "Membership in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is not required for admittance into the
chool but an understanding of and a commitment to support the Church's mission is necessary." All students must adhere to the university's
honor code, which prescribes standards of
morality
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,
dress and grooming, academic honesty, and
drug and alcohol non-consumption. Undergraduate students must also take 14 credit hours of religion courses in order to fulfill the university's religious education requirement for graduation.
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Students find diversion in clubs sponsored by the MSM and in university-wide
intramural sports
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. Students interested in careers in academia can participate in the Marriott School of Management Pre-doctoral Student Organization. Students also compete in academic competitions at various campuses and venues. A BYU student team placed #1 at the
University of Arizona
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T ...
's annual ethics competition (''Duel in the Desert'') in 2006 and 2007,
and a team of undergraduate accounting students placed #1 in the 2007
Deloitte
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Tax Case Competition—marking BYU's seventh consecutive first- or second-place finish in this division. The BYU chapter of the Collegiate Entrepreneurs Organization also received three first-place national chapter awards at the organization's national conference in Chicago, including "Best in Teaching Entrepreneurship" and "Best Chapter Marketing." Additionally, a BYU student team was #3 at the 2007 International Venture Capital Investment Competition finals, finishing behind
MIT
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and the
University of Virginia
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.
Faculty
The Marriott School has 130 full-time faculty with more than 90 percent holding PhDs.
Faculty have included former
Academy of Management
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president
David Whetten,
WordPerfect co-founder
Alan Ashton,
FranklinCovey co-founder
Stephen Covey,
University of Oxford
, mottoeng = The Lord is my light
, established =
, endowment = £6.1 billion (including colleges) (2019)
, budget = £2.145 billion (2019–20)
, chancellor ...
professor
Teppo Felin, and Steve Albrecht, former President of the
Association of Certified Fraud Examiners
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and of the
American Accounting Association
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.
Several Marriott School faculty have been awarded for their efforts in teaching and research, as well as in the community. Kevin Stocks was awarded the 2007 ''Joseph A. Silvoso Faculty Award of Merit'' by the Federation of Schools of Accountancy for displaying excellence in accounting education, and Warner Woodworth received the 2007 ''Faculty Pioneer Award in External Impact'' from The Aspen Institute's Center for Business Education in recognition for the integration of social issues in research and teaching.
Gary Cornia also received the 2006 ''Stephen D. Gold Award'' from the Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management, while Chyleen Arbon was appointed to the Utah Advisory Committee to the
U.S. Commission on Civil Rights
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.
Alumni
Numbering 55,000,
graduates from the Marriott School have been deemed "first among recruiters" by ''
BusinessWeek
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'' in 2008.
Top recruiters include
Ernst & Young
Ernst & Young Global Limited, trade name EY, is a multinational professional services partnership headquartered in London, England. EY is one of the largest professional services networks in the world. Along with Deloitte, KPMG and Pricewat ...
,
PricewaterhouseCoopers
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,
Deloitte & Touche
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,
KPMG
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Headquartered in Amstelveen, Netherlands, although incorporated in London, England, KPMG is a net ...
,
HP,
Intel
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,
Cisco
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, and
Goldman Sachs.
For 2009, MBA graduates averaged $87,769 in post-graduation salary, MPA graduates $48,294, MAcc graduates $51,900, MISM graduates $58,785, and management undergraduates $48,995.
There is also a strong contingency of Marriott School alumni who pursue a career in
academia
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, with BYU being ranked #8 nationally for the number of students who go on to earn
PhDs
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. This is due in part to the MAcc
PhD Prep Track and the
BYU Honors Program.
Alumni of the Marriott School of Management who are prominent in business include
Citigroup CFO
Gary Crittenden 1976, former
Dell
Dell is an American based technology company. It develops, sells, repairs, and supports computers and related products and services. Dell is owned by its parent company, Dell Technologies.
Dell sells personal computers (PCs), servers, data ...
CEO
Kevin Rollins
Kevin Barney Rollins (born November 15, 1952) is an American businessman and philanthropist. The former President and CEO of Dell Inc., in 2006 Rollins was named by London's ''CBR'' as the 9th Most Influential person in the Enterprise IT sector. ...
1984, former
Intermountain Health Care
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CEO
Bill Nelson
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'67, and
Krispy Kreme International President Jeffrey B. Welch 1984.
In education,
Alison Davis-Blake
Alison Davis-Blake (born November 5, 1958) was the eighth president of Bentley University. Before Bentley, she served as dean of the Carlson School of Management at the University of Minnesota and of the Ross School of Business at the University o ...
1982 is president of
Bentley University
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,
John Grout '84 is Dean of the Campbell School of Business at
Berry College,. Alumni in other fields include
Thomas S. Monson
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'74, former
president
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*President (corporate title)
* President (education), a leader of a college or university
* President (government title)
President may also refer to:
Automobiles
* Nissan President, a 1966–2010 Japanese ...
of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and chairman of the BYU Board of Trustees, and three-time
NFL Super Bowl champion
Bart Oates
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'82.
Many alumni also choose to participate in the BYU Management Society, which was founded in 1977 by Dean
Merrill J. Bateman
Merrill Joseph Bateman (born June 19, 1936) has been a general authority of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) since 1992, originally as a member of the Second Quorum of the Seventy. He is currently an emeritus general a ...
. The organization is an alumni association "with inclusivity", inviting non-alumni to join as well. The fourfold mission of the society is networking, career development, supporting BYU and the Marriott School, and community service. The Society membership is now at 6,000 members in 40 U.S. cities and 10 countries.
See also
*
List of United States business school rankings
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*
List of business schools in the United States
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*
List of deans of the Marriott School of Management
References
External links
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