page_title: Carroll School of Management
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: Carroll School of Management / History
caption_attribution_description: English: Boston College's Fulton Hall
context_page_description: The Wallace E. Carroll School of Management is the business school of Boston College in Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts. The school is regularly ranked among the best business schools in the United States, particularly its undergraduate program and world-renowned research faculty.
  Established in 1938, the Carroll School offers Bachelor of Science, Master of Business Administration, and Doctor of Philosophy degrees, in addition to Master of Science degrees in both finance and accounting, along with joint degree programs with Boston College's other schools.
context_section_description: In 1938, the Carroll School was founded as the College of Business Administration. At the invitation of Boston College president Father William J. McGarry, S.J., more than 30 prominent businessmen and bankers from Boston and New York City provided counsel to the school as members of an advisory committee. Seventy-two student candidates were selected from over 100 applications to begin study. Classes began on September 16, 1938 in a building, which housed other graduate programs, at 126 Newbury Street in downtown Boston. The business school's enrollment was about 330 by the time 52 students first graduated in June 1942.
  CSOM's home, Fulton Hall, is named for Father Robert Fulton, the first dean and twice president of Boston College. It was designed in the late 1940s in the collegiate gothic style by the Boston firm of Maginnis and Walsh. In addition to the James J. Byrnes Library, the building housed an industrial management laboratory in the basement that was considered innovative in the era of the "efficiency expert" and time-and-motion studies. In 1993, Fulton Hall underwent a major renovation by Svigals & Associates, a New Haven, Connecticut-based firm.
  The school was renamed in 1989 in honor of industrialist and alumnus Wallace E. Carroll of Katy Industries, whose $10 million donation was the largest private grant to the university at the time.
caption: Fulton Hall atrium
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