Farmer School of Business

The Farmer School of Business serves as the undergraduate and graduate business school at Miami University. The departments include Accountancy, Economics, Finance, Management, Marketing and Decision Science/Management Information Systems. The business school is currently housed in two major buildings on the flagship campus in Oxford, Ohio, Laws and Upham Halls. It normally confers more than 1,000 Bachelor of Science degrees in Business each year. In addition, full and part-time Master of Business Administration, MBA. Master of Arts in Economics, and Master of Accountancy are conferred. The School's name was officially changed from "Richard T. Farmer School of Business" to "Farmer School of Business" in 2007.

The school includes a number of centers and programs, including The Howe Writing Initiative; Thomas C. Page Center for Entrepreneurship; Laws, Hall & Associates; Center for Innovation in Communications and Information Technologies; Center for Interactive Media Studies; Buck Rodgers Leadership Program; Summer Business Institute; Summer International programs; China Business Program; Mock Trial Team; Executive Speaker Series; Anderson Distinguished Lecturer Series; US Bancorp Distinguished Lecture Series; and the Professional and Self Development Skills Initiative.

It was endowed in 1991 by Richard T. Farmer, one of the most wealthy men in Ohio and chairman of the board of the Cintas Corporation. In 2005, Richard and Joyce Farmer and the Farmer Family Foundation continued its support of Miami University with a gift of $30 million. A new 210,000 square foot school of business building is currently in construction to be completed during Miami University's 2009 bicentennial year. The building will be named "Farmer Business School", recognizing its gracious benefactor.

Academic Departments

*Department of Accountancy
*Department of Decision Science and Management Information Systems
*Department of Marketing
*Department of Economics
*Department of Finance
*Department of Management

Majors

*Accountancy
*Business Economics
*Finance
*Interdisciplinary Business MGT:Business Legal Studies Track
*Interdisciplinary Business MGT:Entrepreneurship Track
*Interdisciplinary Business MGT:International Business
*Management & Organizations
*Management Information Systems
*Marketing
*Supply Chain & Operations Management

Points of Pride

*In 2008, Business Week ranked Miami 24th among all American undergraduate business schools, 8th among all public undergraduate business schools, and 1st in Ohio undergraduate institutions. [cite web
url=http://bwnt.businessweek.com/bschools/undergraduate/08rankings/
title=The Top Undergraduate Business Programs
publisher=Business Week
accessdate=2008-04-15]

*In 2008, US News and World Report ranked Miami 48th among all American undergraduate business schools, and 28th among all public undergraduate business schools. [cite web
url=http://university-portal.com/2008/04/05/americas-best-undergraduate-business-programs-2008/
title=America’s Best Undergraduate Business Programs 2008
publisher=US News and World Report
accessdate=2008-04-15]

*Public Accounting Report ranked Miami's Accountancy Program 11th in the country in 2007. [cite web
url=http://www.miami.muohio.edu/about_miami/recognition/
title=Miami University: Recognition
publisher=Public Accounting Report
accessdate=2008-04-15] It was ranked 8th nationally by U.S. News and World Report in 2004.

*It is fully accredited by the AACSB, an international association for business education, the sole accrediting agency for programs in business administration and accounting in the United States. Only 22 percent of American business schools have all their programs accredited by the AACSB.

*The Thomas C. Page Center for Entrepreneurship received the 2001 National Model Entrepreneurship Program Award from the United States Association for Small Business Entrepreneurship.

*Miami's national reputation attracts between 300 and 350 employers to campus each year. The Fortune 500 and Big Four accounting firms are well-represented in this group. In 2005, 99.5% of responding Miami business graduates reported having either secured full-time employment within months of graduation or continued with graduate education.

*International programs allow students to develop a global perspective. Forty percent of business majors study overseas sometime during their four years in a wide variety of programs. The school offers an international business major track, a minor, and currently has summer business programs in such locations as England/France, Luxembourg, Central Europe (Austria, Hungary, and the Czech Republic), Pacific Rim (China, South Korea, Japan, and Hawaii), Southeast Asia (China, Taiwan and Thailand), India, Russia and Latin America. A new China Business Program provides students with two years of Mandarin language, as well as coursework and internships in Shanghai.

* The School's sponsored Mock Trial team is competitive nationally, typically ranked in the top 10, and they won the national collegiate title in 2001.

ee also

*Miami University
*Richard T. Farmer

References

External links

* [http://www.sba.muohio.edu Official site]