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. About 6,300 students are enrolled in classes, including

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and

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, including

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and

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-seeking students. All programs are

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by the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business.

Leadership

For over three decades John Kraft served as the Dean of the Warrington College of Business. His tenure as Dean started in 1990, and ended in 2020. In March 2020 Dr. Saby Mitra was named the new Dean of the Warrington College of Business. Dr. Mitra started on August 1, 2020.

Undergraduate programs

Undergraduate programs are offered through the Heavener School of Business ( Finance, General Studies,

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, and

Marketing Marketing is the process of exploring, creating, and delivering value to meet the needs of a target market in terms of goods and services; potentially including selection of a target audience; selection of certain attributes or themes to emph ...

.) and the Fisher School of Accounting ( Accounting). The Hough Graduate School of Business offers ten options for its MBA degree program (three full-time, three professional, 3 online and executive). One of UF MBA's three Professional options is a satellite program in South Florida at the UF MBA Sunrise Center in Sunrise, Florida.

International programs

International programs in more than 20 countries are offered to undergraduate and graduate students. The Master of International Business is the international graduate program offered. Students in this program may spend six weeks in a foreign country studying a specific industry, country, or global operation issue, but a study of at least one week abroad is required.

Entrepreneurship & Innovation Center

The college is home to the Entrepreneurship & Innovation Center. The center was founded in 2000 with the mission to introduce the concept of entrepreneurship to students and faculty, and offers one of the nation's only Master's of Science degrees in Entrepreneurship.

Hough Graduate School of Business

William R. Hough of

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, founder of the investment firm bearing his name and an alumnus of the college's first MBA class in 1948, donated $30 million to the college in 2007. It was the largest private gift ever received by the University of Florida at that time. The funds established an endowment to support teaching, academic programs, and enhancements in the graduate school of business, and provided a lead gift to construct a new building to house the graduate business programs named after Mr. Hough himself. The gift is also eligible for matching funds from the State of Florida Major Gifts Trust Fund and from the Alec P. Courtelis Facilities Enhancement Challenge Grant Program, potentially increasing the total value of the gift to $50 million.

Warrington College of Business Buildings

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Undergraduate rankings

* 24th overall by the ''U.S. News & World Report'', 2021 ** 7th for

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** 10th for

** 11th for Accounting

Graduate rankings

* 17th overall for Accounting by the ''U.S. News & World Report'', 2020 * 19th overall for Marketing by the ''U.S. News & World Report'', 2020 * 35th overall for Finance by the ''U.S. News & World Report'', 2020

Hough Graduate School of Business rankings

Full-time MBA

* 25th overall by the ''U.S. News & World Report'', 2020 * 21st (Global) The Economist 'WhichMBA' 2018

Part-time MBA

* 32nd overall Part-Time MBA by the ''U.S. News & World Report'', 2020

Online MBA

* 4th Best Online MBA Program by the ''U.S. News & World Report'', 2020 * 5th in Admissions Selectivity by the ''U.S. News & World Report'', 2018 * 7th (Global) Online MBA, ''Financial Times'', 2018

Department, schools and programs

*Heavener School of Business *Fisher School of Accounting *Hough Graduate School of Business *Department of Finance, Insurance and Real Estate *Department of Information Systems and Operations Management *Department of Management *Department of Marketing *Kelley A. Bergstrom Real Estate Center

Ethics program

The ethics program at the Warrington College of Business is conducted by the Elizabeth B. & William F. Poe, Sr. Center for Business Ethics Education and Research.

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Warrington College Of Business Business schools in Florida Colleges of the University of Florida Educational institutions established in 1926 1926 establishments in Florida