The UConn School of Business is one of the best and most comprehensive business schools in the nation, offering academic programs at the bachelors, masters, doctorate and advanced certificate levels, spanning five Connecticut locations — Storrs, Hartford, Stamford, Torrington and Waterbury

Rankings

Continuously accredited by AACSB International – the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business, since 1958, the School's success has not gone unnoticed. The School ranks in the top 5 percent of business schools worldwide and is frequently considered the number 1 public business school in New England by various educational ranking publications.

UConn School of Business rankings include:

• Named a "Best B-School"” in Business Week's 2002, 2004 and 2006 MBA rankings, UConn ranks among the top 30 public universities nationwide – and #1 in New England
• Ranked #31 among the nation's best public business schools and #59 overall according to the 2007 U.S. News & World Report "America’s Best Graduate Schools"
• #1 Business School in New England by The Wall Street Journal
• Ranked 10th in the country for Best Facilities by The Princeton Review

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Experiential Learning

Beyond receiving a thorough grounding in business education, our students capture many opportunities for experiential learning by working on solutions to real-time challenges with our corporate partners.

Integration Project: The capstone of first-year MBA studies, this is a live consulting project that integrates classroom knowledge with pre-program work experience. Past corporate partners include General Electric, Xerox Engineering, The Hartford Insurance Group, United Technologies, Pitney Bowes and WellPoint.
Additional information about the Integration Project (PDF)

edgelab: A strategic alliance between GE and the UConn School of Business, edgelab is a unique laboratory that gives students the opportunity to integrate and build upon their academic knowledge and develop innovative solutions to real-time, complex, business problems. Participants collaborate directly with GE executives and work hands-on with faculty to generate team-based solutions that provide educational value to students and business value to GE. Project areas include new product introductions, stochastic/financial modeling, emerging technologies research, process improvement, risk management, and business development.
edgelab website

Student Managed Fund (SMF): Established in February 2000, the SMF gives UConn MBA & Undergraduate students hands-on experience managing $2 million in real money to bridge the gap between theory and practice. Students use their intensive classroom training in stock market theory to help them research and analyze stocks. At fund meetings they plan strategies for each stock. The students also learn about the accounting and reporting necessary for professional fund management.
SMF Website

Financial Accelerator: This facility uses the latest in financial technologies and real-time databases to address insurance and financial challenges occurring in the marketplace. Working alongside financial executives and faculty, MBA & Undergraduate students have the opportunity to investigate alternative markets and trader support tools, study insider trading identification and control, review alternative auction market mechanisms, design financial programs and develop products that enhance competitive advantage, evaluate emerging technologies, and create specialized business processes that increase efficiency, reduce costs, and/or increase revenues.
Financial Accelerator website

Innovation Accelerator (IA): The IA is one of the primary outreach initiatives of the Connecticut Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation (CCEI) at the School of Business. The IA assists entrepreneurial ventures in addressing myriad challenges associated with the identification and capture of business opportunities through interdisciplinary project teams of students that innovatively solve complex business issues for technology-based entrepreneurial ventures under the guidance of UConn faculty, with the involvement of the founders of the participating venture. The teams help move innovation forward and the client venture closer to market by engaging in consulting projects such as performing comprehensive market analyses and associated market-entry strategies, developing strategic roadmaps and sustainable business models, fleshing-out business plans, evaluating the market feasibility of emerging technologies, and constructing customer relationship strategies.
Innovation Accelerator website