School of Management

Since its founding in 1913, the School of Management (SMG) has been a leader in innovative management education. Today more than 2,000 undergraduates and 1,200 MBA and DBA candidates constitute its active, achievement-driven student body. This School has built a reputation on fusing the art, science, and technology of business.

Unlike most business schools, the 波士顿大学 School of Management undergraduate program teaches management as a system (a philosophy as well as the introductory course). It is critical for managers today to understand the varied forces that act on and within any organization. Because decisions in one department (such as marketing) inevitably cause ripple effects—intended and unintended—in various other departments (such as accounting, manufacturing, distribution, and the like), our goal is to teach an understanding of the critical interrelationships of various functions within organizations.

Students also learn to deal with information technology, the force that is creating new business models and transforming older businesses and organizations. The School building has both wired and wireless Internet access throughout, three computer laboratories, and an advanced media laboratory.

Furthermore, markets have become increasingly global. Managers must therefore learn to compete and cooperate across and among cultures. The fact that approximately 20 percent of this School’s student body comes from outside the United States is a learning advantage for all of our students. The School emphasizes a cohesive, enterprise-wide vision of management. At the same time, students may develop a specialty through their choice of electives.

The program is unique in other ways. Because team projects and work groups have become more common in organizations, faculty teams teach core courses and in turn emphasize Team Learning™. Using their varied strengths, student teams research, develop, and present complex projects, often on assignments from real-world clients. The faculty strives to infuse the program with a spirit of cooperation and integrity and an enthusiasm for entrepreneurship. By the end of the freshman year, School of Management students have gained more knowledge, skills, and management perspective than is normally expected of juniors at many other schools of management.

Accreditation

Both the undergraduate and graduate degree programs of the School of Management are accredited by AACSB International—the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business.