The Martha and Spencer Love School of Business is part of
Elon University
Elon University is a private university in Elon, North Carolina. Founded in 1889 as Elon College, Elon is organized into six schools, most of which offer bachelor's degrees and several of which offer master's degrees or professional doctorate d ...
in
Elon, North Carolina
Elon () is a town in Alamance County, North Carolina, United States. It is part of the Burlington metropolitan statistical area. The population as of the 2020 census was 11,324. The town of Elon is home to Elon University.
Elon began in 1881 as ...
. The undergraduate school offers degrees in Bachelor of Science in Accounting, the Bachelor of Science in Business Administration, and the Bachelor of Arts in Economics.
Minors are also offered in Accounting, Business Administration and Economics. The school offers concentrations in Entrepreneurship, Healthcare Administration, Human Resources, International Business, Leadership/Management, Marketing, and Supply Chain Management.
[ The graduate school offers a Master of Business Administration.]
History
The Martha and Spencer Love School of Business was established in 1985 following an endowment gift from The Martha and Spencer Love Foundation. The Love School of Business is based in Ernest A. Koury, Sr. Business Center, which opened in 2006.[ Richard W. Sankey Hall, an expansion of the Love School of Business, opened in fall 2018.
The Martha and Spencer Love School of Business earned initial accreditation by ]AACSB
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 ...
in 2004.
Academics
Graduate Programs[
*]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 ...
*Master of Science in Business Analytics A Master of Science in Business Analytics (MSBA) is an interdisciplinary STEM graduate professional degree that blends concepts from data science, computer science, statistics, business intelligence, and information theory geared towards commercial ...
*Master of Science in Accounting
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 ...
Undergraduate Majors[
*Accounting
*Business Analytics
*Economic Consulting
*Economics
*Entrepreneurship
*Finance
*Human resource Management
*International Business
*Marketing
*Project Management
*Supply Chain Management
Undergraduate Minors][
*Accounting
*Business Administration
*Economics
*Entrepreneurship
*Finance
*Professional Sales
*Supply Chain Management
Undergraduate Centers & Programs]
Student organizations
*Alpha Kappa Psi
Alpha Kappa Psi (, often stylized as AKPsi) is the oldest and largest business fraternity to current date. Also known as "AKPsi", the fraternity was founded on October 5, 1904, at New York University and was incorporated on May 20, 1905. It is cu ...
*American Marketing Association
The American Marketing Association (AMA) is a professional association for marketing professionals with 30,000 members as of 2012. It has 76 professional chapters and 250 collegiate chapters across the United States.
The AMA was formed in from th ...
*Beta Alpha Psi
Beta Alpha Psi () is an international honor society for accounting, finance and information systems students attending universities accredited by the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business or the European Quality Improvement System ...
*Beta Gamma Sigma
Beta Gamma Sigma () is the International Business Honor Society. Founded in 1913 at the University of Wisconsin, University of Illinois and the University of California, it has over 980,000 members, selected from more than 600 collegiate chapters ...
*Delta Sigma Pi
Delta Sigma Pi () (officially the International Fraternity of Delta Sigma Pi, Inc.) is a coeducational professional business fraternity and one of the largest in the United States. Delta Sigma Pi was founded on November 7, 1907, at the School ...
*Economics Club
*Elon Blockchain
*Elon Consulting Club
*Elon Microfinance Initiative
*Omicron Delta Epsilon
Omicron Delta Epsilon ( or ODE) is an international honor society in the field of economics, formed from the merger of Omicron Delta Gamma and Omicron Chi Epsilon, in 1963. Its board of trustees includes well-known economists such as Robert Luc ...
International Economics Honor Society
*Financial Management Association International
*Net Impact
Net Impact is a nonprofit membership organization for students and professionals interested in using business skills in support of various social and environmental causes. It serves both a professional organization and one of the largest student o ...
*Project Management Club
*Real Estate Club
*Sigma Iota Epsilon
Sigma Iota Epsilon () is a National Honorary and Professional Management Fraternity.
Purpose
The stated goals of Sigma Iota Epsilon are;
*To stimulate interest and achievement in the field of management;
*To stimulate scholarship in management;
* ...
*Society for Human Resource Management
The Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) is a professional human resources membership association headquartered in Alexandria, Virginia. SHRM promotes the role of HR as a profession and provides education, certification, and networking to ...
*Women in Finance
*Women in Sales
Recognition and rankings
*The Elon MBA is ranked among the Top 100 schools in the U.S. News & World Report's “Best Part-time MBA Programs” list for 2022.
*The Princeton Review named Elon MBA as one of the country’s best on-campus MBA programs in its “Best Business Schools for 2021” guide of top graduate business programs.
*In 2021, Elon’s undergraduate business program ranks No. 45 in the survey by ''Poets & Quants'', a ranking that includes private and public institutions of all sizes. Among private colleges and universities, Elon’s program ranked No. 23.
*In 2014, Princeton Review
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's Best 301 Business Schools ranked Martha and Spencer Love School of Business 2nd in the United States for Best Administered MBA Program.
*In 2013, BusinessWeek
''Bloomberg Businessweek'', previously known as ''BusinessWeek'', is an American weekly business magazine published fifty times a year. Since 2009, the magazine is owned by New York City-based Bloomberg L.P. The magazine debuted in New York City ...
evaluated graduate business schools across the nation and, in the category of part-time MBA programs, the Martha and Spencer Love School of Business was ranked 1st in North Carolina, 1st in the Southeast, and 5th in the United States.
See also
*List of business schools in the United States
The following is a list of business schools in the United States. Business schools are listed in alphabetical order by state, then name. Schools named after people are alphabetized by last name. Accreditation bodies for business schools in the Unit ...
References
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Business schools in North Carolina
Elon University
Educational institutions established in 1985
1985 establishments in North Carolina