The School of Business is a public business school established in 1941 at the University of Connecticut. The school has its main campus located in Storrs, Connecticut. Apart from this, it supports three other campuses at different Connecticut locations namely Hartford, Stamford, and Waterbury. 

The Business school offers bachelor’s, executive MBA, MBA, doctorate and advanced certificate levels programs for students to study in the USA. It has been accredited by AACSB-the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business. The school of business spans its education over a wide array of functional disciplines. Finance, accounting, business administration, management, real estate, marketing is some of the most popular among others.

Rankings

The School of Business at UConn has been ranked:

  • #17 for Real Estate Speciality for the year 2017.
  • As per Money Best Colleges, the School of Business is 18th among Public Business Schools for the year 2016.
  • As per US News and World Report, #44 among the Best Public Business Schools for full-time MBA for the year 2020.
  • #18 in Best Online Masters in Human Resources programs for the year 2019.
  • #29 among US Public Institutions by the Bloomberg Business week for the year 2019.

Highlights

University type Public
Established year 1941
Campus Setting Rural
Location Connecticut, US
Accreditation AACSB
UG Enrollment 2017 2481
PG Enrollment 2017 2037
Faculty (2017-18) 128
Academic calendar Semester-based
Website business.uconn.edu
School of Business, University of Connecticut UG & PG Enrolment

Programs, Campus, and Residence

Programs

The School of Business offers programs at undergraduate, graduate and PhD level. They do offer certain other certificate programs as well. Some of the most popular majors offered by the School of Business include accounting, business administration, business data analysts, finance, management, marketing.

Apart from this, the School of Business offers graduate-level programs in MBA. The school is categorized in full time, part-time or executive MBA. There are some specialized master's programs as well. 

These include MS in Accounting, MS in Business Analytics & Project Management, MS in Financial Risk Management and MS in Human Resource Management. There are certain graduate certificate programs as well. The school of business also offers a PhD in Business.

Campus

The University of Connecticut School of Business has a total of four campuses at different Connecticut locations with the main campus located at Storrs, Connecticut. The other three campuses are Hartford, Waterbury, Stamford. The School of business is located throughout Connecticut for easy access to students. 

Storrs campus deals with the primary administrative functions of the business school. Apart from this it also handles all the undergraduate and PhD programs in addition to the graduate program in accounting and human resource management. 

Hartford campus deals with business's schools part-time, full time and executive MBA program offices, classrooms and conference facilities. 

Waterbury campus offers the four-year bachelor's degree program with majors in business data analysts and business administration. In addition to this, it also offers a part-time MBA program and some graduate business certificate programs. 

Stamford campus has a say in providing internships, field placements, and jobs.

Residence

UConn provides housing to 12,000 students and is one of the universities with the highest percentage of students living on-campus.

The university has residence halls, suites, and apartments to provide students with quality on-campus residence experience. These come with all the necessary facilities and amenities. 

Rooms include a bed, dresser, closet, chair, desk. Most residence halls are co-ed. Apart from this, there is wifi, free laundry facilities available in each residence halls. 

Traditional housing includes Alumni, Hilltop, McMahon, Buckley, East Campus, West Campus, Towers, Northwest, North Campus, Shippee, Werth Tower. Suite-style housing includes busby suites, Garrigus suites, south campus. Apartments include hilltop, Northwood, Mansfield, charter oak. Greek-style housing includes Husky Village.

Students can also look for off-campus student housing to stay in the US to complete their higher education.

Admission Process

The School of Business at UConn offers admission to students on the basis of their academic excellence. As School of Business has slightly different requirements for international students, they are as follows:

Application Portal: Online

Application Fee:  80 USD

Admission Requirements:

  • One must submit a completed common application with 80 USD as an application fee. One can easily do so by visiting the university's online application portal.
  • One needs to submit all the official transcripts for all secondary or post-secondary education.
  • Applicants whose native language is not English must provide proof for English proficiency to the authorities. This can be done by providing TOEFL or IELTS scores.
  • One needs to submit the official SAT or ACT scores.
  • One needs to submit a personal essay stating a reason for choosing the school of business at UConn. You can also include any other useful information which you feel can strengthen the essay.
  • One can be asked to submit an otherwise optional letter of recommendation for some specific programs.
  • For admission to graduate programs, one must submit GRE and GMAT test scores.
  • Graduate applicants must submit a Personal Statement of Purpose.
  • Applicants must provide a financial statement verifying resources to pay for a total one year expense in the united states.

Cost of Attendance

Annual cost of attendance of an average student at School of business of UConn is:

Expenses Incurred Fees
Tuition and Fees 40,594 USD
Room and Board 12,514 USD
Other(Books, Transportation, Insurance) 6,984 USD
Living Expenses 13,258 USD

Financial Aid

The School of Business at UConn offers financial aid to students in the form of scholarships. Scholarships are given to those outstanding students who have the potential to perform exceptionally well both inside and outside the classroom. The school of business offers an ample number of scholarships to its students. Mostly the scholarships are course-specific, this means scholarships may vary from course to course. Here are some of the scholarships offered by the school of business:

  • Academic Based Scholarship: Renewable for 4 years with a fixed amount determined every year
  • UConn Award: Renewable for 4 years with a fixed amount that varies from year to year
    • Student should maintain a competitive GPA
    • And combined score of reading-writing & Math SAT/ ACT
  • External Scholarships: International students can avail external scholarships available to study in the USA.

Alumni Network

The school of business has a well-established network of alumni. As a graduate, one also becomes a member of the alumni association. Following are some of the notable alumni of the school of business:

  • William S. Simon Jr., Retired EVP and COO of Walmart Co. Inc.
  • Viren Kapadiya, President and CEO of Gyrus Systems(company)
  • Mark P. Coville, Managing director, and COO, Global Securities
  • Keith R. Fox, CEO, the Fox Family Foundation
  • Mark L. Boxer, Executive Vice President, Global Chief Information Officer, Cigna