Georgetown University School of Business Administration
McDonough School of Business was officially named what from 1957 to 1993?
McDonough School of Business The Robert Emmett McDonough School of Business , commonly shorted to the McDonough School of Business and abbreviated as the MSB , is the business school of Georgetown University in Washington , D.C . Founded in 1957 , it grants both undergraduate and graduate degrees , and is one of the universitys nine constituent schools . Since 1998 , the school has been named in honor of Georgetown alumnus Robert Emmett McDonough . History . The school was founded in 1957 as an outgrowth of the School of Foreign Service , and was originally named the Georgetown University School of Business Administration . In 1993 , the name was changed to the Georgetown University School of Business . On October 7 , 1998 , the School of Business was renamed the Robert Emmett McDonough School of Business in honor of alumnus Robert Emmett McDonough ( a 1949 graduate of the School of Foreign Service ) in honor of his $30 million donation to the school . The Rafik B . Hariri Building . In 2009 the McDonough School of Business moved into the newly constructed Rafik B . Hariri Building , named after the late Rafik Hariri , former Prime Minister of Lebanon and father of Georgetown alumnus Saad Hariri , also a former Prime Minister of Lebanon . The $82.5-million privately funded building opened in the summer of 2009 . The new building includes 15 classrooms , eight case-style rooms , five tiered lecture rooms , and two flat-floor rooms ; 34 breakout rooms complete with data ports , flat-screen video monitors , and white boards ; separate undergraduate and graduate commons areas and lockers for graduate students ; 120 faculty offices ; 11 interview rooms within the Career Management Office ; 15 conference rooms throughout the building ; and a 400-seat auditorium , among other features . Academics . Several academic themes distinguish the McDonough School of Business and give the school a special identity among managers and academicians , including international and intercultural dimensions of the marketplace , the importance of written and oral communication , and interpersonal effectiveness in organizations . As a Catholic and Jesuit university , Georgetown stresses ethics and social justice in its curriculum . The Georgetown Institute for Consumer Research is one of several academic research centers at the McDonough School of Business . The McDonough School of Business is accredited by the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business . Undergraduate school . Undergraduates work toward a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration ( BSBA ) . The curriculum combines business and liberal arts courses to provide a strong foundation in critical thinking and reasoning . The primary academic emphasis during the first and second years is the liberal arts , notably economics , government , history , philosophy , English , calculus , and theology . Coursework usually shifts to mostly business courses in the junior and senior years , but this can vary depending on how a student constructs his or her schedule . Students must complete both 40 courses and 120 semester hours of liberal arts courses , business core courses , courses supporting a major or minor , and free electives . The McDonough School of Business has core courses in the traditional disciplines of accounting , finance , marketing , management , and the decision sciences support these themes . Additionally these themes are supported by the schools strong support of minor concentrations among nearly 50 liberal arts disciplines . About one third of undergraduates choose to double major . Undergraduate concentrations include accounting , finance , two separate majors related to international business , management , marketing , and operations and information management ( OPIM ) . The McDonough Schools undergraduate acceptance rate in the 2009-2010 cycle ( for the class of 2014 ) was 22 percent , but this dropped to 15.7 percent for the 2014-2015 cycle ( class of 2019 ) , where the school accepted 530 applicants out of roughly 3,375 applicants . In the 2013-2014 admission cycle ( for the class of 2018 ) , the 25th and 75th percentiles of the admitted students SAT scores were 650 and 750 for Critical Reading , and 690 and 770 for Mathematics , respectively . Career placement . The largest employers of new McDonough School of Business alumni include Goldman Sachs , Morgan Stanley , Credit Suisse , JP Morgan , Barclays Capital , Pricewaterhouse Coopers , Deloitte , Bank of America , IBM , and Citigroup . Students also pursue professional degrees , such as Juris Doctor , immediately after graduating . Student groups , activities , and employment . The Undergraduate Program Office and active students provide dozens of activities and groups . Some well-known activities include the Georgetown University Student Investment Fund , Georgetown University Accounting Society , Innovo Consulting , Hilltop Consultants , Alpha Kappa Psi Professional Business Fraternity , Young Alumni Mentor Program , Stock Pitch Competition , and several other activities . Students work for a variety of skill-based jobs on campus , such as in accounting or finance department of student groups and companies ( such as The Corp , The Hoya , and the Georgetown University Alumni & Student Federal Credit Union ) , the University Investment Office , the MSB Tech Center , and University Information Services . Many students also have internships in the Washington , DC area , usually about 8–12 hours per week , at private equity , investment management , and accounting firms , or other companies including startups . Given the school’s D.C . location , students also have the opportunity to intern with government agencies . The school also offers six-week summer study-abroad programs tailored specifically for business students at the University of Oxford , Sophia University in Tokyo , and the ESADE Business School . Graduate school . Graduate work offered by the school includes a day and evening Master of Business Administration ( MBA ) programs , two Global Executive MBA programs ( one weekend format and one modular ) , a Master of Science in Finance ( MSF ) program , a Master of Science in Management and an Executive Masters in Leadership degree . MBA Full-Time program . The Georgetown MBA Full-time Program is a general management program oriented toward those with liberal arts , science , or technical undergraduate degrees . Students who enroll in the 60-credit program typically are mid-level managers with an average of five years of work experience . During the course of the 21-month program , students are required to participate in four one-week residences , of which one is international . Joint degrees are offered combining the MBA with JD , MD , Masters in Public Policy , or Masters of Science in Foreign Service . For the class of 2019 , 34% of enrolled students are of international origin and 77% have lived , worked , or studied abroad . The fields most represented by applicants were finance , consulting , and technology , respectively . There were 1,742 applicants and 276 were enrolled . The MBA Full-time Program has often been ranked among the top 25 business programs by many leading publications , including BusinessWeek , USNews , Financial Times , and many others . MBA Evening Program . The MBA Evening Program ( EP ) is designed for the working professional . The 60-credit program is taught by the same faculty as the MBA Full-Time Program and covers the same academic content in three years . In its 2015 ranking , Bloomberg BusinessWeek ranked the MBA Evening Program #4 in the nation . Master of Science in Finance : Full-Time and Part-Time Program . The Master of Science in Finance graduate program is technology-intensive , with a duration of 21-months , requisites of 32-34 credits and is accredited by the Advanced Collegiate Schools of Business ( AACSB ) . The program is intended to prepare the next global leaders of finance , via challenging quantitative academic coursework , a required graduation GPA of at least a 3.0 , an on-campus residency , an optional 2- month summer consulting and/or investment clinic , as well as a mandatory global consulting project . One of the past locations for the global consulting project has been Johannesburg , South Africa . In the past , firms such as Barclays , Deloitte , Blink Consulting , Standard Chartered , Coca-Cola and the World Bank , have partnered with the program to offer consulting project opportunities to students . Program coursework encompasses Corporate Finance , Financial Markets , Econometrics , Real Estate Private Equity , Big and Small Data , Fixed Income Investments , Advanced Valuation and Modeling , Financial Statement Analysis , as well as Options Pricing and Risk Management . Executive Programs . Georgetowns McDonough School of Business offers Executive MBA programs that are characterized by small class sizes and cohort relationships . The Global Executive MBA program ( previously the International Executive MBA program - IEMBA ) provides experienced professionals with the tools needed to excel in todays global business environment by combining classroom teaching with international residencies . The every-alternate-weekend class structure means students can stay on the job , immediately putting their new knowledge to work . The Georgetown-ESADE Global Executive MBA for highly accomplished managers and executives is offered in partnership with the Edmund A . Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University and the ESADE Business School in Spain . The program consists of six 11-day modules in Washington , D.C. , Barcelona , São Paulo , Buenos Aires , Bangalore , Moscow , and New York . The Executive Masters in Leadership degree is a distinctive , 13-month program that emphasizes leadership in organizations with a focus on identifying and developing the leadership capabilities of individuals . The masters program analyzes leadership as a set of skills on three different levels of analysis : individual , interpersonal , and institutional . Alumni . Georgetowns McDonough School of Business claims more than 10,500 undergraduate alumni and approximately 5,000 MBA and several hundred Executive MBA alumni .