University of Akron College of Business

[1] All of the college's programs are accredited by AACSB International – the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business.

[3] In 2020, it was expanded with an newly built professional development building, increasing both the number of classrooms and office facilities.

In addition, the college's marketing department is housed in the Polsky building, where it occupies the fifth floor.

The undergraduate division of the College of Business was founded in 1953, originally with 14 full-time and 19 part-time faculty to instruct 107 students.

In 2011, the college was ranked by Bloomberg BusinessWeek, for the third year in a row as one of the best undergraduate schools in the nation.

[8] BusinessWeek also ranked the college first in Ohio, and 39th nationally among public schools, for giving its students the biggest return on their tuition dollars after graduation.

[9] The college has been recently featured in The Princeton Review's "The Best 294 Business Schools: 2012 edition".