[10] Business courses were first offered at the Massachusetts Agricultural College in the early years of the 20th century, expanding rapidly during the 1930s and 1940s in response to student demand.

[11] The college's board of trustees established the School of Business Administration in 1947, and within seven years, it was conferring graduate degrees, including doctorates after 1967.

The facility has two state-of-the-art commercial production and demonstration kitchen-classrooms for Hospitality & Tourism Management students.

The school has the second largest MBA degree program in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts by total enrolled students.

[30] Financial Times has ranked its online MBA program at 3rd worldwide and 1st in the United States for the years 2017,[31] 2018,[32] 2019,[32] and 2020.

[43] The school's Hospitality & Tourism Management Department was ranked #25 in the world in 2023 by CEOWORLD magazine.

[44] In 2014, alumni Douglas and Diana Berthiaume donated $10 million to the university to establish Berthiaume Center for Entrepreneurship[45][46] and further in 2023, they donated $20 million to support and expand faculty research and endow new faculty positions and professorships.