History of M.B.A.

The first graduate school of business in the United States was the Tuck School of Business, part of Dartmouth College.[citation needed] Founded in 1900, it was the first institution conferring advanced degrees (masters) in the commercial sciences, specifically, a Master of Science in Commerce degree, the forebear of the modern MBA degree.

In 1908, the Graduate School of Business Administration (GSBA) at Harvard University was established; it offered the world's first MBA program[citation needed], with a faculty of 15 plus 33 regular students and 47 special students.

The University of Chicago Booth School of Business first offered working professionals the Executive MBA (EMBA) program in 1940[citation needed], and this type of program is offered by most business schools today.

In 1946, Thunderbird School of Global Management was the first school to offer an MBA program focused on global management.[citation needed]

In 1950, the first MBA degrees awarded outside the United States were by The University of Western Ontario in Canada,followed in 1951 with the degree awarded by the University of Pretoria in South Africa.The Institute of Business Administration, Karachi in Pakistan was established in 1955 as the first Asian business school by the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. In 1957, INSEAD became the first European business school to offer an MBA program.[citation needed] In 1986, the Roy E. Crummer Graduate School of Business at Rollins College (Florida) was the first MBA program to require every student to have a laptop computer in the classroom. Initially, professors wheeled a cart of laptops into the classroom.

The MBA degree has been adopted by universities worldwide, and has been adopted and adapted by both developed and developing countries.