Stern School of Business

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Henry Kaufman Management Center at Stern School in Manhattan

The Leonard N. Stern School of Business is New York University's business school , named after its sponsor, New York billionaire Leonard N. Stern . The faculty was founded in 1900 as the New York University School of Commerce, Accounts and Finance. Today it is one of the best known and most famous " business schools " in the world. The faculty is consistently among the top 15 in national and international rankings.

General

In 2004 there were 2,288 undergraduate students and 2,467 graduate students . The Stern School employs 206 full-time and 59 part-time professors. The faculty is located on Washington Square Park on the New York University campus and occupies the Shimkin Hall , Tisch Hall and Kaufman Management Center buildings . The students and alumni of the faculty refer to themselves as "Sternies" - a name that has also become established throughout the university. Every year all students take part in an extensive international study project lasting several weeks, which the faculty u. a. led to Sweden , Chile , Japan and Mexico .

history

The faculty was founded in 1900 as the NYU School of Commerce, Accounts and Finance. That same year, the first woman was admitted to university, one of the first in the United States. The first female professor, Jeanette Hamill, was hired in 1913. In 1936 the quota for women was already 15 percent. The Graduate program was founded near Wall Street in 1916. In 1928 the first doctorate was awarded.

In 1945, 10,000 students from 36 countries and all (at that time) 48 countries were already enrolled at the Stern School. In 1960, courses in international economics were made compulsory. The faculty was in 1972 in the College of Business and Public Administration renamed. In the same year, Tisch Hall, designed by Philip Johnson and Richard Foster , was built. In 1988 the faculty received a donation of US $ 30 million from German-born alumnus and investor Leonard N. Stern. (BS, 1957; MBA, 1959) and was given its current name as a result. In the 1990s , generous donations from alumni Dr. Henry Kaufman (PhD 1958) and Kenneth G. Langone (MBA 1960) further expand the faculty's offerings. In 1992 the Kaufman Management Center, built for US $ 68 million, was inaugurated. In 2000, on the occasion of the faculty's centenary, a fundraising campaign was started that raised more than US $ 100 million within three years and significantly increased the faculty's endowment.

Offers for students

The students of the faculty are not very much involved in the overall happenings of the university, as the faculty has its own infrastructure of student clubs, connections and leisure activities as well as its own student administration. It is often claimed that the students in the faculty show lack of solidarity and are competitive, but this is denied by the students themselves. For outsiders, this picture is probably caused in particular by the relative grading, ie distribution of the grades on the basis of a Gaussian distribution . This was introduced by the faculty to combat grade inflation , which is rampant at other universities .

canditature

As at many US universities, there is fierce competition for admission to the faculty, which has one of the lowest acceptance rates within the university at around 20%. The SAT score for the undergraduate college was 1412 in 2004, the average grade ( GPA ) was 3.74. The average GMAT value for the MBA program was 700. From 2010 the Stern School of Business will also accept the GRE for admission to the MBA program. The faculty's main competitors in competing for students are the University of Pennsylvania , Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Columbia University .

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  1. ↑ An overview of the Stern School of Business rankings:
  2. ↑ MBA Channel (English): Stern to Accept GRE for 2010 Admission


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