School of Business

UConn’s School of Business is accredited by the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB), the premier accrediting organization for schools of business.

Business Week, U.S. News & World Report and The Wall Street Journal all agree: UConn ranks among the nation’s top business schools.

Enjoy frequent visits from corporate executives and entrepreneurs, and from recruiters who regularly seek out our graduates.

Our Student Managed Investment Fund provides valuable hands-on experience in stock selection and portfolio management.

Our Office of Diversity Initiatives provides financial, academic and social support to our diverse population of students.

School of Business

Through rigorous academic training and a real-world orientation, the UConn School of Business prepares you for a career bounded only by your imagination. We offer high-quality market-relevant majors, with a strong emphasis on learning through hands-on experiences and technology.

In addition to our academic strengths, UConn’s location in the corporate corridor between Boston and New York enables us to have close, ongoing relationships with the Fortune 500 business community. That means our curriculum stays focused on real-world issues, and we can offer many internship opportunities.

UConn’s School of Business combines the classroom and the real world, helping you close the gap between theory and practice. The successful learn-by-doing initiatives allow you to acquire a business education that is distinctively different.

During your freshman and sophomore years, you'll take strong general education courses that lead to advanced business study during your junior and senior years.

Classes explore actual business situations.
Teams analyze problems and opportunities, weigh relevant factors, recommend business solutions, and develop and implement strategic plans.
Experts evaluate student efforts in a collaborative environment, emphasizing the kind of learning that comes from case-study analysis.

Our new $27 million facility, located in the heart of our main campus in Storrs, is the high-tech centerpiece on which we’ve built our solid national reputation. Every classroom seat is equipped to connect a notebook computer to the School’s network, providing business students with ideal, multipurpose learning opportunities.

Don't forget our Stamford campus

A highlight of UConn’s campus in Stamford is the Connecticut Information Technology Institute (CITI), a full-service resource center that provides information technology courses and promotes cyber-business research.

Furthermore, an exciting research partnership between the School and GE has created edgelab, a world-class laboratory where students and GE executives work on innovative solutions to real business problems.

Available Majors

Accounting

Business and Technology

Finance

Health Care Management

Management

Management and Engineering for Manufacturing

Management Information Systems

Marketing

Real Estate and Urban Economics

Risk Management and Insurance

Distinguished Faculty

Business Faculty - 01

Subhash Jain, professor of international marketing, is Director of UConn’s GE Capital Global Learning Center. His teaching, consulting and research activities include marketing strategy and multinational marketing. Widely published, he is the author of hundreds of journal articles and several books on international marketing.

Business Faculty - 02

James R. Marsden is the Treibick Family Endowed Chair in e-Business and a Board of Trustees Distinguished Professor. Head of the Department of Operations and Information Management, he is also the UConn Director of the edgelab, which has completed over 100 projects with GE reporting near 100% implementation.

Business Faculty - 03

Katherine A. Pancak, professor in residence of finance and real estate, teaches courses in finance and real estate, including financial management, personal finance and real estate principles. She incorporates an online component into her courses in order to supplement traditional learning and provide flexibility for her students.

Business Faculty - 04

George Plesko, associate professor of accounting, researches corporate tax policy and the interactions of financial and tax reporting. He has worked in the U.S. Treasury’s Office of Tax Analysis and has testified on corporate tax policy issues before the House Ways and Means Committee and the Senate Finance Committee.

Business Faculty - 05

Zeki Simsek, associate professor of management, specializes in strategic management and entrepreneurship, interorganizational networks and corporate governance.

Successful Alumni

BusinessAlumni - 01

Marshall Dougherty (’08, B.S., Management Information Systems) is a data quality and integrity consultant for Deloitte & Touche. A member of the 2008 School of Business Hall of Fame, he was a University Honors student and held internships in informatics at Pfizer and database management at Aetna U.S. Healthcare.

BusinessAlumni - 02

Anna Kovtunenko (’04, B.S., Business and Technology) works for UBS Investment Bank as a documentation specialist and operations supervisor. She participates in business re-engineering initiatives within the bank and on an industry-wide level. While at UConn, she worked in the GE edgelab as a research analyst.

BusinessAlumni - 03

Irene Louth (’02, B.S., Accounting; ’03, M.S., Accounting) is a tax accountant at PricewaterhouseCoopers. She reviews and prepares high net worth tax returns, provides personal financial planning, and prepares gift and estate tax returns, and analyzes tax returns for corporations, partnerships and foundations.

BusinessAlumni - 04

Patrick Mastan (’04, B.S., Finance) is an investment banker and analyst in the Technology Investment Banking Group in Boston. While at UConn, he participated in the University Honors Program and interned as a corporate finance analyst at United Technologies Corporation.

BusinessAlumni - 05

Victoria H. Nute (’05, B.S., Business Administration) works for Eastern Maine Healthcare Systems as a compensation specialist. She works with benefit consultants, vendors and staff to assure the health insurance benefits produce the expected return on investment. As a student, she interned with Towers Perrin.

BusinessAlumni - 06

George P. Rzepecki (’04, B.S., Management Information Systems) has been in the General Electric Asset Management Information Management Leadership Program since graduation. While at UConn, he participated in the University Honors Program and in the student exchange internship program with DaimlerChrysler in Germany.

BusinessAlumni - 07

Brian E. Tims (’05, B.S., Risk Management and Insurance), second-year law student at the UConn School of Law, is an associate at Zeldes, Needle and Cooper, a litigation and transactional law firm in Bridgeport, Conn. While at UConn, he served as an economics and foreign affairs intern for one of Connecticut’s U.S. senators.