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  • 21 Aug, 2019

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Schulich School Of Business
The Schulich School of Business is the business school of York University located in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The institution provides undergraduate and graduate degree and diploma programs in business administration, finance, accounting, business analytics, public administration and international business as well as a number of PhD and executive programs. Originally known as the Faculty of Administrative Studies (FAS), it was renamed in 1995 after Seymour Schulich, a major benefactor who has donated $15 million to the school. The Dean of the School, Detlev Zwick, was appointed in 2021 after having served as Interim Dean for 15 months.

Primarily located at the Seymour Schulich Building on the Keele Campus in Toronto, Ontario, the school maintains an executive education centre in Toronto's Financial District and satellite campuses in Hyderabad, India, and Beijing, China. The school has satellite centres in Shanghai, Mumbai, Seoul, São Paulo, and Mexico City. Schulich offers undergraduate, graduate and postgraduate business degrees. Schulich pioneered Canada's first International MBA (IMBA) and International BBA (iBBA) degrees, as well as the Kellogg-Schulich Executive MBA.

The Seymour Schulich Building

History

The Schulich School of Business was known as the Faculty of Administrative Studies which was founded in 1966. Before the establishment of the Seymour Schulich Building on the Keele Campus in 2003, the school was run from a York University building, currently renamed as Health, Nursing & Environmental Studies Building. In 1995, following a major monetary donation from Canadian billionaire Seymour Schulich, the school underwent a series of changes that created the present-day Schulich School of Business.

Campuses

Seymour Schulich Building

Peter F. Bronfman Business Library

The Seymour Schulich Building opened in August 2003 and cost $102 million. The building was jointly designed by Siamak Hariri and Robbie Young + Wright Architectural and was awarded the Governor General's Medal in Architecture in 2006. The Seymour Schulich Building and its Executive Learning Centre houses the Peter F. Bronfman Business Library, Executive Dining Room, Robert R. McEwen Auditorium, York Entrepreneurship Development Institute, Tuchner's Pub & Eatery, Starbucks, the central courtyard, the Executive Learning Centre hotel, and small lecture halls.

In December 2017, the $120 million York University Station opened directly across from the Seymour Schulich Building's main entrance. Designed by Foster + Partners, the station design uses natural light to try to subtly guide passengers from the entrance down to the platforms. With the Line 1 Yonge–University subway running underneath a lecture hall on Schulich's East Wing, in 2021, Metrolinx conducted a study to analyse the latest sound and vibration technology that was used to plan and design the Yonge North Subway Extension.

Rob and Cheryl McEwen Graduate Study & Research Building

The Rob and Cheryl McEwen Graduate Study & Research Building opened in 2019—attributed to an $8 million donation from the McEwen family. The $50 million 67,000 square-foot facility was designed by the firm Baird Sampson Neuert Architects, it has received LEED Gold certification. Centered around an atrium, the building houses a Seattle's Best Coffee café, a student marketplace, a fitness and wellness centre, and a landscaped outdoor courtyard.

Rob and Cheryl McEwen Graduate Study & Research Building

Miles S. Nadal Management Centre

Management programs are held in downtown Toronto at the Miles S. Nadal Management Centre, which is located at 222 Bay Street in the Toronto-Dominion Centre.

India Campus

In 2014, Schulich opened a $100 million satellite campus in Hyderabad, India, a collaboration with the GMR School of Business. The campus gives students the opportunity to complete their India MBA consisting of a first year spent in India followed by a second year in Toronto.

Graduate programs

The Schulich School of Business offers a number of graduate degree programs. The School currently offers 17 specializations within the MBA curriculum as well as part-time and accelerated degree options.

Undergraduate programs

Schulich offers the undergraduate programs on BBA (Bachelor of Business Administration with Honours) and iBBA (International Bachelor of Business Administration with Honours). Students applying to the BBA/iBBA program must have at least a low 90s high school average. In the applicant process, applicants must submit a Supplementary Information Form that includes a summary of the organizations, sports teams, volunteers or paid work that the applicant has been involved in, and there are three video interview questions along with a five-minute written portion.

The BBA and iBBA programs together enrol around 400 students (300 for BBA and 100 for iBBA) from an average of 5,500 to 6,000 applicants per year, with an average applicant to admission ratio of around 14 to 1. Delayed entry students who have studied one year at another school are also allowed to apply. However, there are only a limited number of spaces reserved for the delayed entry stream.

Academics

Students can choose to specialize in up to two areas, such as: Accounting, Economics, Entrepreneurship and Family Business, Finance, International Business, Marketing, Organization Studies, Operations Management & Information Systems, and Strategic Management. iBBA students are required to complete one semester of study abroad at one of Schulich's partner schools and to take a foreign language course every year. Undergraduate students in the BBA and iBBA programs also have the option of pursuing a Certificate in Managing International Trade and Investment.

International exchange

Any student enrolled in the BBA/iBBA program may apply for one Study Abroad term. Students may apply for a full academic year only when a full year option is available. The exchange term could either be the second semester of Year 3, or first and second semester of Year 4.

Schulich partners with 64 exchange partner universities in 30 different countries. Exchange partners include Esade Business School, HEC Paris, Bocconi University, and the National University of Singapore. Exchange is a part of iBBA students' graduation requirements. BBA students are allowed to participate in exchange. Select undergraduate students also have the option of completing a joint degree with the Guanghua School of Management at Peking University. Students who graduate from the Schulich-Guanghua joint program receive both a Bachelor of Business Administration (BBA or iBBA) from the Schulich School of Business and a Bachelor of Arts in Management from the Guanghua School of Management.

Rankings

Business School
International Rankings
Global MBA Ranking
QS (2024)81

Schulich has placed in national and international business school rankings.

  • 1st in Canada and 30th in the world in Executive MBA rankings by Financial Times.
  • 4th in Canada and 16th in the MBA programs integrating sustainability into the curriculum by Corporate Knights.
  • 7th in Maclean's ranking of Canadian business schools.

Canadian MBA Alliance

The school is also a founding member of the Canadian MBA Alliance, which was created in 2013. All six members of the alliance rank among the world's top 100 schools, according to their participation in key rankings—Financial Times, Business Week, and The Economist.

Notable faculty

Notable alumni

Student clubs

There are two student government bodies at Schulich:

  • At the undergraduate level, students can participate in annual elections to become representatives in the Undergraduate Business Society (UBS).
  • Graduate students can also be elected as their student body representatives in the Graduate Business Council.

Additionally, students can become members of and hold positions in various student organizations. Each of these organizations solicits membership from newly admitted students at the Club Fair, which takes place during the first week of classes.

Publications

The Schulich School of Business releases a quarterly alumni magazine called the Exchange (stylized as in all lowercase).