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In 1980, the Iowa State University School of Business Administration was
created out of the Department of Industrial Administration. The school
changed its name to the College of Business Administration in 1984. That
same year, it awarded the first
Bachelors in Business Administration (BBA) degrees to 205 fall semester
graduates and could boast 2,115 business students. In the following
year, 1985, the College of Business Administration admitted the first
students to it new Masters in Business Administration (MBA) program. In
1991, the name of the college changed once again to simply, the College of
Business. By 1994, when the College celebrated its tenth anniversary, it
included nearly 3,000 students and fifty-eight faculty members, and just
five years later in 1999, the College of Business included 1,548
pre-business majors, 1,871 business majors, 65 tenure-track faculty, 14
adjunct faculty, and over 18,000 alumni. This ranked it third
among Iowa State University’s colleges in the combined total number of
undergraduate and graduate students. The College of Business can
trace its growth to continuing partnerships with private business, strong
scholarship programs, and efforts to keep up with the latest technologies
and business methods.
The Iowa State University College of Business offers undergraduate
programs in a variety of fields, including accounting, entrepreneurial
studies, finance, international business, management, management
information systems, marketing, productions/operations management, and
transportation logistics. For graduate students, the College of Business
offers programs leading toward an MBA, a Master of Accounting (MACC), a
Master of Science in Information Systems (MS-IS), a Master of Science in
Information Assurance (MS-INFS), and a Master of Science in Industrial
Relations (MS-IR).
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