Overview
The Robert Emmett McDonough School of Business, commonly shorted to the McDonough School of Business and abbreviated as the MSB, is the business school of Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. Founded in 1957, it grants both undergraduate and graduate degrees, and is one of the university's nine constituent schools. Since 1998, the school has been named in honor of Georgetown alumnus Robert Emmett McDonough.
History
The school was founded in 1957 as an outgrowth of the School of Foreign Service, and was originally named the Georgetown University School of Business Administration. In 1993, the name was changed to the Georgetown University School of Business. On October 7, 1998, the School of Business was renamed the Robert Emmett McDonough School of Business in honor of alumnus Robert Emmett McDonough (a 1949 graduate of the School of Foreign Service) in honor of his $30 million donation to the school.
Key Dates
Founding dates for academic programs:
Undergraduate Program (B.S. in Business Administration): 1957
Full-time MBA Program: 1981
Executive Education: 1988
Executive MBA: 1994
Flex MBA: 2005
Executive Master’s in Leadership: 2005
M.S. in Finance: 2014
M.A. in International Business and Policy: 2017
M.S. in Management (MiM): 2019
B.S. in Business and Global Affairs (BGA): 2020
M.S. in Business Analytics: 2021
M.S. in Environment & Sustainability Management: 2022
B.S. in International Business, Language, and Culture (IBLC): 2023
M.S. in Global Real Assets: 2023
Executive MBA Dubai: 2023
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