# Rutgers Business School – Newark and New Brunswick

Rutgers Business School – Newark and New Brunswick (also known as the Rutgers Business School, or RBS) is the graduate and undergraduate business school located on the Newark and New Brunswick campuses of Rutgers University. It was founded in 1929. It operated under several different names (the undergraduate Rutgers School of Business in New Brunswick and the Rutgers Graduate School of Management in Newark) before consolidating into Rutgers Business School. (The Rutgers School of Business in Camden remained a separate business school under the Rutgers University umbrella but was not part of the Newark/New Brunswick consolidation.)
Rutgers Business School offers bachelor's, master's, and Ph.D. degrees.

## Facilities

In 2009 RBS opened a new facility in the first 11 stories of downtown Newark's One Washington Park office building that is home to the full-time and Executive MBA programs, the MQF program, and the Newark undergraduate program. 1 Washington Park is centrally located near highways and public transportation, notably Newark Broad Street Station, where there is service on New Jersey Transit Morris and Essex and Montclair-Boonton Lines (including Midtown Direct service to New York Penn Station) and Newark Light Rail service to Newark Penn Station. The Washington Park light rail station is also adjacent to the school.
Rutgers facilities in One Washington Park include classrooms, lecture halls, conference rooms, student and faculty lounges, offices, and a University Police substation. The new 3 story RBS entrance atrium features lecture halls, a trading floor, student lounge and study spaces, a rooftop garden, and the Bove Auditorium. One Park Bistro in the lobby of the building is owned by the university and operated by the university's contracted Aramark food service but is open to all tenants with a building ID. In 2011, it was announced the Rutgers–Newark campus would further expand around Washington Park, converting the former American Insurance Company Building into graduate student housing.
In 2011 RBS broke ground on a new school building located on the New Brunswick/Livingston Campus. This new building, which opened in September, 2013, is the focal point for the New Brunswick undergraduate program. Previously, in New Brunswick, RBS shared the Janice H. Levin Building with the School of Labor and Management Relations and Beck Hall with the School of Arts and Sciences on the Livingston Campus.
RBS also has facilities in Morristown Plaza in Morristown, New Jersey, Basking Ridge Country Club in Basking Ridge, Washington Street in Jersey City, and Robinson Road in Singapore. MBA programs were also previously offered in Beijing and Shanghai.

## Accreditation and rankings

RBS is accredited by the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB) as well as the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education while Rutgers University as a whole is accredited by the Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools.
RBS is ranked by US News #44 in Best Business Schools and 28th in Part-time MBA nationwide.
For the 2024-2025 school year, Bloomberg ranked Rutgers Business School #59 in the nation.
In April 2022, a lawsuit accused RBS of creating fake jobs for graduates to boost MBA program rankings. The lawsuit was expanded into a class-action lawsuit. The lawsuits were dismissed in Federal Court in September 2023.

## Research centers

* Blanche & Irwin Lerner Center for Pharmaceutical Management Studies
** Mahmud Hassan, director
* Center for Governmental Accounting Education & Research
** Robert H. Werner, director
** Yaw M. Mensah, research director
* Institute for Ethical Leadership
** James Abruzzo, co-director
** Alex Plinio, co-director
* Center for Research in Regulated Industries
** Michael A. Crew, director
* Center for Supply Chain Management
** Lei Lei, director
* East Asian Business Center
** John Cantwell, director
** Peter R. Gillett, academic director
* Rutgers Accounting Research Center
** Miklos Vasarhelyi, director
* Technology Management Research Center
** George F. Farris, director
* Whitcomb Center for Research in Financial Services
** Ivan E. Brick and Michael S. Long, co-directors
In April 2017, Rutgers Business School accepted $1 million from IFlytek to create a big data research laboratory. The same company was later placed on a Bureau of Industry and Security blacklist for allegedly enabling human rights abuses in Xinjiang with its technology.

## Notable alumni

* Greg Brown, chairman and CEO, Motorola Solutions
* Frank Cassidy, president, PSEG Power
* Gary Cohen, president, BD Medical
* Mark Fields, CEO, Ford Motor Company
* Rana Kapoor, founder, Yes Bank
* Stephanie Kusie, Canadian Parliament member
* Alvaro de Molina, chief financial officer, Bank of America, CEO, GMAC
* Bill Rasmussen, founder, ESPN
* Gary Rodkin, president and CEO, ConAgra Foods
* Bill Schultz, CEO, Fender