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Short Facts About Moore School of Business
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Short Facts
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The University of South Carolina is a state university located in Columbia,
the capital of South Carolina.
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Moore School of Business was founded in
1919 as the School of Commerce, and in 1998 became the first major business school to be named for
a woman.
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Moore School of Business offers a
complete undergraduate and graduate business education, offering 9 major areas of the baccalaureate
degree program; a full-time International MBA with the option of eight Language Tracks or Global
Track; a flexible MBA offered through combinations of live TV, streaming video, and online media;
three specialized master's programs, in accounting, human resources, and economics; and Ph.D.
programs in business administration and economics.
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Moore School of Business is a leader in distance education – first in the nation
to offer an MBA to South Carolina's working professionals by live TV with interactive audio. The
Professional MBA program has operated continuously since 1970.
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The faculty is composed of 160 teachers, scholars, and
practitioners in specialized fields. They represent more than 50 graduate institutions.
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Programs are enriched by extensive facilities including a
12,000 square-foot networked computer center, a business library, and two multi-media
television-studio classrooms, a multi-media auditorium, and several multi-media classrooms and
labs.
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Research programs, directed by the school's Division of
Research, keep the faculty at the forefront of expertise and strengthen all academic curricula. The
school is home to several leading journals, including the
Economics of Education Review, the
Human Resource Planning Journal, and the
Journal of Risk and Insurance. The Moore School of Business, accredited by
AACSB-International (The Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business) has an
enrollment of approximately 2,800 undergraduate students and 900 graduate students.
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The U.S. Department of Education selected USC as one of
five universities in the country, and the only one in the Southeast, to serve as a Center for
International Business and Education Research (CIBER) to teach educators throughout the region
how to teach international business more effectively.
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The Daniel Management Center is the oldest permanently
established executive education center in the Southeast. The Moore School's Certificate Programs in
Management continue to grow in popularity, offering frontline managers or high-potential middle
managers advancement opportunities.
- Both our undergraduate and graduate programs have been consistently ranked number one or two in the nation for the international business specialty in reputational surveys by U.S. News & World Report.
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