Owen Graduate School of Management

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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