Located on a 285-acre wooded campus, The Jesse H. Jones Graduate School of Business is one of the academic units of Rice University in Houston, Texas and one of the world's leading business schools. Named in honor of the late Jesse Holman Jones, a prominent Houston business and civic leader, the school received its initial funding in 1974 through a major gift from the Houston Endowment Inc., a philanthropic foundation established by Jones and his wife, Mary Gibbs Jones. The Jones School is distinguished by its strong foundation in accounting, finance, marketing, organizational behavior and management with areas of excellence in energy, entrepreneurship and health care. Degree programs include the Rice Master of Business Administration (MBA), MBA for Executives, and MBA for Professionals. In addition, the school offers several joint degree programs, including the MD/MBA with Baylor College of Medicine, MBA/ME with Rice’s George R. Brown School of Engineering, and MBA/MS with Rice’s Wiess School of Natural Sciences. A Ph.D. in Business — in marketing, finance, strategic management, accounting, and organizational behavior — attracts candidates aspiring to become faculty at business schools in prestigious research universities internationally. The Jones School also provides an undergraduate business minor and full schedule of non-credit executive education open enrollment and customized courses for business and industry, along with certificates in finance and accounting, health care, and marketing.
The Rice Alliance for Technology and Entrepreneurship is Rice’s flagship entrepreneurship initiative based on a strategic alliance among the schools of engineering, science and business. Since its inception in late 1999, the alliance has assisted in the launch of over 250 start-ups which have raised more than half-a-billion dollars in early-stage capital. The alliance’s Rice Business Plan Competition is the largest and richest business plan competition in the world. In 2011, 42 top graduate schools competed for more than $1.3 million in cash and prizes.
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