Farmer School of Business

The Farmer School of Business
Motto Prodesse Quam Conspici
Motto in English
 To Accomplish Rather Than To Be Conspicuous
Type Undergraduate and graduate business school
Established 1932
Parent institution
 Miami University
Dean Marc Rubin[1]
Academic staff
 190
Undergraduates 4,100 (Oxford, 2016)
Location Oxford, Ohio, USA
Campus 2,000 acres (810 ha)
Affiliations AACSB
Website http://miamioh.edu/fsb/index.html

The Farmer School of Business (FSB) is the business school at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, with approximately 4,000 full-time students enrolled as of 2016.[2][3]

For the past several years the Farmer School's undergraduate business program has been rated near the top of all such programs offered by public universities.[4] In the 2015 Businessweek survey, the school ranked 8th nationally among public institutions. In the 2016 Businessweek survey, the school ranked 40th among all undergraduate business schools.[5]

Miami University's business school is a member of the AACSB[3] and is named for him after Richard Farmer and his wife, Joyce (Barnes) Farmer, who provided the cornerstone gift to the school of business in 1992.

Farmer School at a Glance

  • More than 900 students graduate from the Farmer School each year
  • By offering eight majors and a variety of minors and thematic sequences, students explore a variety of disciplines throughout their undergraduate experience
  • The entrepreneurship program has ranked among the nation's top 20 for 8 years in a row, as of February 2016.
  • The undergraduate and graduate accountancy programs rank among the nation's top 25
  • More than 60 percent of the undergraduate students study abroad
  • Many courses in the Farmer School offer hands-on experience with real clients
  • The Farmer School is home to more than 20 business organizations that offer significant leadership development
  • Miami's championship Mock Trial program is housed in the Farmer School
  • The $65 million Farmer School building, established in 2009, is LEED certified at the Silver level[6]

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Miami University business school names new dean". Dayton Daily News. January 4, 2018. Retrieved March 23, 2018.
  2. ↑ Murphy, Kate (October 10, 2016). "Miami U. gets $40M gift from Farmer family". The Cincinnati Enquirer. Retrieved March 23, 2018.
  3. 1 2 "Farmer School of Business, Miami University". AACSB. Retrieved March 23, 2018.
  4. ↑ Murphy, Kate (September 12, 2017). "How Miami, UC, Xavier stack up in new U.S. News & World Report rankings". The Cincinnati Enquirer. Retrieved March 23, 2018.
  5. ↑ Levy, Francesca; Rodkin, Jonathan (2016). "Best Undergraduate Business Schools 2016". Businessweek. Retrieved March 23, 2018.
  6. ↑ "LEED CERTIFICATIONS SPREAD ACROSS MIAMI'S CAMPUS". The Miami Student. February 9, 2016. Retrieved March 23, 2016.

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