The Olin Business School is one of seven academic schools at Washington University in St. Louis. Founded in 1917, the business school was renamed for entrepreneur John M. Olin in 1988. The school offers BSBA, Master of Business Administration (MBA), MS in Supply Chain Management, MS in Finance, Masters in Accounting, Executive MBA, and PhD degrees. In 2002, an Executive MBA program was established in Shanghai, in cooperation with Fudan University.
Olin has been consistently ranked among the world's top business schools by the Wall Street Journal, US News & World Report, the Financial Times, BusinessWeek and the Economist. In 2010, the Wall Street Journal ranked the Executive MBA program 2nd in the world. In the 2011 edition, US News ranked the full-time MBA program 20th in the United States and the part-time MBA program 10th while BusinessWeek ranked the undergraduate program 8th.
The Olin Business School includes the 80,000 sq ft (7,400 m2) Simon Hall, whose 1986 construction was largely funded by a gift from John E. Simon; and the Charles F. Knight Executive Education Center on the Danforth Campus.
Olin has a network of about 17,600 alumni all over the world. In the late 2000s, the business school’s endowment rose to $249 million (2007); annual gifts averaged $12 million per year.
On July 1, 2009, the school took over management of the Brookings Institute's executive management program.
| School rankings (overall) | |
|---|---|
| U.S. undergraduate business | |
| Bloomberg BusinessWeek | 8 |
| U.S. News & World Report | 14 |
| U.S. MBA | |
| Bloomberg BusinessWeek | 40 |
| Forbes | 47 |
| U.S. News & World Report | 22 (full-time) 10 (part-time) |
| Worldwide MBA | |
| Economist | 42 |
| Financial Times | 61 |
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