UC Riverside School of Business

Leveraging its location in Inland Southern California as one of the fastest growing regions in the United States, the School's brand identity is tied to the development and management of growth, and uses the tagline "Leading Thinkers Leading Growth.

These five spires include: (1) auditing and assurance, (2) empirical finance, (3) supply chain management, (4) Web commerce, and (5) behavioral decision research.

In 2007, Entrepreneur Magazine and the Princeton Review included the school among the top 25 graduate programs in entrepreneurship.

[18] In 2010, U.S. News & World Report ranked the SoBA undergraduate business program in the top 5 percentile.

[1] Offered in the A. Gary Anderson Graduate School of Management, the MBA program enrolls about 80 students per year as of 2011.

[20] In 2010, MBA student interns participated in the first ever study of foreign direct investment in Riverside County.

They worked with the Office of Foreign Trade at the Riverside County Economic Development Agency.

[21] A Ph.D. in Business Administration program launched fall 2011, and is interdisciplinary, focusing on management and marketing.

It builds financial analysis skills that can be applied to national and international careers in corporate finance, investment banking and risk management.

[19] Students meet on alternating weekends at the UCR Palm Desert Graduate Center, and are required to attend a week-long residency and an international study trip.