The Owen Graduate School of Management is the graduate business school of Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee, United States. Founded in 1969, Owen awards nine degrees: a standard 2-year Master of Business Administration (MBA), an Executive MBA, an Americas Executive MBA, a Master of Finance, a Master of Accountancy, a Master of Accountancy-Valuation, a Health Care MBA, and a Master of Management in Health Care, as well as a large variety of joint professional and MBA degree programs. Owen is renowned for its Health Care MBA, a unique program that provides students an in-depth educational experience tailored to the health care industry. Owen also offers non-degree programs for undergraduates and executives.
The student to faculty ratio is about 9 to 1, with 577 students and 54 full-time faculty members. The school’s 8,304 living MBA alumni are found throughout the U.S. and around the world.
Owen's 2-year MBA program is consistently ranked among the top business schools in the nation by major publications. In 2013, Owen was ranked #30 in U.S. News & World Report's rankings. Bloomberg Businessweek ranked the full-time MBA program #25 in 2012.
The school is named for Ralph “Peck” Owen and his wife, Lulu Hampton Owen. Ralph Owen, a Vanderbilt alumnus (’28), was a founder of Equitable Securities Corporation in Nashville, and he became the chairman of the American Express Company.
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