Manning School of Business


The Robert J. Manning School of Business is the business school at the University of Massachusetts Lowell located in Lowell, Massachusetts. The Manning School is accredited by AACSB International.
The school offers eight undergraduate majors along with MBA, MS, Ph.D., and graduate certificate programs. As of fall 2018, the school had 2,500 undergraduate students, 901 graduate students, and 79 full-time faculty members.

History

Introduced as the Division of Business and Economics in 1959 at Lowell Technological Institute, the Manning School of Business was originally designed to offer business classes to engineering students in the Industrial Technology program. The College of Management Science was developed in 1971 and offered a range of degree programs in business administration. The college was renamed the Manning School of Business in 2011 and is named after Robert J. Manning, the chairman and CEO of MFS Investment Management. The school was named after Manning, a 1984 graduate of UMass Lowell, after he and his wife donated $5 million to the university.
The Manning School of Business is housed in the Pulichino Tong Business Center, which opened in April 2017. The building is named after alumnus John Pulichino '67 and his wife, Joy Tong, who committed more than $4 million in scholarship funds for Manning School students. The Pulichino Tong Business Center has over 54,000 square feet of classroom, office, and conference space. The facility features a four-story atrium, technology enhanced classrooms, seminar rooms, faculty offices, a finance laboratory simulating a trading room floor, meeting spaces and collaborative study areas.

Rankings

ranked the Manning School 30th in the nation for Best Online Graduate Programs in 2018. At the MBA level, the Manning online MBA is ranked 29th in the nation by Poets & Quants and 51st in the nation by US News. The MBA program is also ranked as Tier One by CEO Magazine in their 2018 Global MBA rankings. The school's undergraduate program is nationally ranked in the top 200 by U.S. News. Princeton Review lists the Manning School of Business as one of their best 296 business schools.

Academics

Undergraduate programs

The Manning School of Business hosts the following research centers: