The Alberta School of Business,

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is located in

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. Founded in 1916, it is a research-intensive publicly funded institution and is consistently ranked in the top 50 publicly funded universities for research by the Financial Times of London. The Alberta School of Business was the first business school in Canada to be accredited by the

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(AACSB) in 1968 and maintained its accreditation in 2012 making it the longest accredited business school in Canada. Recognized for its leadership in research, the quality of academic programming, graduate career success, and economic impact for Alberta and the world, the Alberta School of Business fosters and supports an environment where innovation and entrepreneurial thinking is free to flourish.

Overview

Dr. Joseph Doucet ( Stanley A. Milner Chair in Leadership) was appointed Dean July 1, 2013, succeeding Dr. Mike Percy who was Dean of the Alberta School of Business from 1997 to 2011. The School is also supported by
Business Advisory Council
which serves as a vital communications link between the School, the university and the business community. The Alberta School of Business is divided into four award-winning teaching and research departments: Accounting, Operations & Information Systems; Finance and Statistical Analysis; Strategic Management and Organization, which includes the study of family business; and Marketing, Business Economics & Law which also houses the specialty areas of energy economics, retailing, real estate and international business. The Alberta School of Business has a strong culture of engagement with the community. Rigorous research is supported by 10 relevant applied research centres with close industry linkages. The School's signature community event is the Canadian Business Leader Award (CBLA); each year since 1982, the Alberta School of Business and its Business Advisory Council (BAC) have presented the Canadian Business Leader Award (CBLA) to a Canadian of distinction.

Academics

Profile

The School has 2,071 undergraduate, 757 full and part-time

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 ...

, and 54 doctoral students, as well as alumni of more than 30,000 throughout the world, who belong to a Business Alumni Association with national and international chapters and events. The School also houses over 27 student clubs.

Programs

The Alberta School of Business offers undergraduate, master's and PhD busines
degrees
as well as select professional development and executive programs. Bachelor of Commerce - The innovative BCom program at the Alberta School of Business has empowered thousands of undergrads to shape their futures and become leaders in Alberta and around the world. There are five different BCom degree programs and 16 majors. The Bachelor of Commerce program offers and majors in

Accounting Accounting, also known as accountancy, is the measurement, processing, and communication of financial and non financial information about economic entities such as businesses and corporations. Accounting, which has been called the "languag ...

, Business

Economics Economics () is the social science that studies the Production (economics), production, distribution (economics), distribution, and Consumption (economics), consumption of goods and services. Economics focuses on the behaviour and intera ...

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Law Law is a set of rules that are created and are enforceable by social or governmental institutions to regulate behavior,Robertson, ''Crimes against humanity'', 90. with its precise definition a matter of longstanding debate. It has been vario ...

Business Studies Business studies, often simply called business, is a field of study that deals with the principles of business, management, and economics. It combines elements of accountancy, finance, marketing, organizational studies, human resource management, a ...

, Decision and

Information Systems An information system (IS) is a formal, sociotechnical, organizational system designed to collect, process, information storage, store, and information distribution, distribute information. From a sociotechnical perspective, information systems a ...

, Distribution Management, East Asian Studies,

Entrepreneurship Entrepreneurship is the creation or extraction of economic value. With this definition, entrepreneurship is viewed as change, generally entailing risk beyond what is normally encountered in starting a business, which may include other values th ...

and

Small Business Small businesses are types of corporations, partnerships, or sole proprietorships which have fewer employees and/or less annual revenue than a regular-sized business or corporation. Businesses are defined as "small" in terms of being able to ap ...

European Studies European studies is a field of study offered by many academic colleges and universities that focuses on current developments in European integration. Some programmes offer a social science or public administration curriculum focusing on develop ...

Finance Finance is the study and discipline of money, currency and capital assets. It is related to, but not synonymous with economics, the study of production, distribution, and consumption of money, assets, goods and services (the discipline of fina ...

Human Resource Management Humans (''Homo sapiens'') are the most abundant and widespread species of primate, characterized by bipedalism and exceptional cognitive skills due to a large and complex brain. This has enabled the development of advanced tools, culture, ...

International Business International business refers to the trade of goods, services, technology, capital and/or knowledge across national borders and at a global or transnational scale. It involves cross-border transactions of goods and services between two or more ...

Latin American Studies Latin American studies (LAS) is an academic and research field associated with the study of Latin America. The interdisciplinary study is a subfield of area studies, and can be composed of numerous disciplines such as economics, sociology, history ...

Management Information Systems A management information system (MIS) is an information system used for decision-making, and for the coordination, control, analysis, and visualization of information in an organization. The study of the management information systems involves peop ...

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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 ...

, Operations Management, as well as

Retailing Retail is the sale of goods and services to consumers, in contrast to wholesaling, which is sale to business or institutional customers. A retailer purchases goods in large quantities from manufacturers, directly or through a wholesaler, and t ...

and Services. MBA & Master's Programs - Bringing together world-class faculty with the best and brightest students from around the globe, the Alberta School of Business master's programs equip students with the skills and knowledge to advance their careers. Programs include the MBA, Executive MBA, Master of Accounting and Master of Financial Management. The UAlberta MBA program offers career track specializations in Energy Finance, Innovation & Entrepreneurship, Operations & Business Analytics, Public Sector & Healthcare Management, and Strategy & Consulting. Select professional development and executive programs are also offered through the Master's Programs Office. PhD - The Doctor of Philosophy in Business program offers meaningful research in five specializations of business education, generous scholarships, teaching opportunities, and a chance to work with world-renowned mentors in a research-intensive business school.

History

The Alberta School of Business, University of Alberta was founded in 1916, when a School of Accountancy was created at the University. The first Bachelor of Commerce degrees were granted in 1924 and in 1928, a School of Commerce was formally established. In 1960, after implementing significant revisions to its curriculum, the School became a full-fledged Faculty of the University of Alberta, and in 1968, the Faculty of Business Administration and Commerce became the first business school in Canada to be granted accreditation by the

. In 1984, the Faculty was renamed as the Faculty of Business and moved into a new building on the University of Alberta campus. In 2010, following the completion of the “Preservation of the Name” campaign, the name of the School was formally changed to Alberta School of Business. The book ''A Chronicle of Commerce: A History of the School of Business'

was written by Dr. Bill Preshing and published in 2008. "Preserving 'Alberta' as the School's name might seem contrary to some in a world where business schools are aligning themselves with individuals' names for an established price. We have tremendous brand equity in our current moniker and, true to the spirit of this great province, the name Alberta is more substantial and more recognizable than any one person's name could represent alone." ~ Stanley A. Milner, Honorary Chairman, Preservation of the Name Campaign, 2010

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