Oct 09
"My MBA coursework, especially professor Hayden Noel’s class, has taught me to focus on [the value of] building brand awareness, enhancing the customer experience, cutting costs, generating revenue, or all of the above."
Sep 14
Gies College of Business is ranked as a Top 10 public undergraduate business program, according to the latest rankings released by US News & World Report.
Aug 18
Dr. Denise Lewin Loyd has been named the first associate dean for equity at Gies College of Business. In this new position, Loyd will help Gies become a leader among business schools in diversity, equity, and inclusion by leading the College’s DEI strategy.
Aug 13
Poets&Quants ranked the Gies Business iMBA as the world’s #1 biggest business school innovation of the decade. Designed from the ground up and launched in 2016, the iMBA has grown to nearly 3,000 students while maintaining a 98% satisfaction rate.
Jul 23
Gies College of Business’ newest MBAs say they’ll move forward with greater intentionality into a post-pandemic business world. They expect the only constant in their careers will be change.
Jul 21
More than 2,500 students have applied to join the iMBA at the University of Illinois’ Gies College of Business since the start of 2020, a 35 percent increase over 2019.
Jul 14
Supply chain major Kayla Gonzalez and her roommate launched MaSKed, which offers a variety of fashionable masks for adults and children. They’ve also decided to donate a portion of the proceeds to charity.
Jun 30
Gies Business has decided to publish a comprehensive collection of its own data and metrics of success, rather than participating in traditional online MBA rankings that are designed for different kinds of programs.
Jun 23
The University of Illinois-Deloitte Foundation Center for Business Analytics is updating its leading-edge data analytics offerings by releasing two additional courses: Data Analytics Foundations for Accountancy I and Data Analytics Foundations for Accountancy II
Jun 22
Three Gies College of Business iMBA students were named among the Best & Brightest Online MBA students in the Class of 2020 by business education publication Poets&Quants.
Jun 15
iVenture Accelerator – powered by Gies College of Business – has announced its new cohort of 11 promising student startups. iVenture’s sixth cohort welcomes 39 students representing 22 fields of study across eight colleges on the University of Illinois campus.
May 08
Gies College of Business is expanding its commitment to delivering life-changing access to business education by launching a new online option for the Master of Science in Management degree (iMSM), pending board of trustees approval.