Rutgers Business School – Newark and New Brunswick (also known as the Rutgers Business School, or RBS) is the graduate and undergraduate business school located on the Newark and New Brunswick campuses of Rutgers University. It was founded in 1929. It operated under several different names (the undergraduate Rutgers School of Business in New Brunswick and the Rutgers Graduate School of Management in Newark) before consolidating into Rutgers Business School. (The Rutgers School of Business in Camden remained a separate business school under the Rutgers University umbrella but was not part of the Newark/New Brunswick consolidation.)
Rutgers facilities in One Washington Park include classrooms, lecture halls, conference rooms, student and faculty lounges, offices, and a University Police substation. The new 3 story RBS entrance atrium features lecture halls, a trading floor, student lounge and study spaces, a rooftop garden, and the Bove Auditorium. One Park Bistro in the lobby of the building is owned by the university and operated by the university's contracted Aramark food service but is open to all tenants with a building ID. In 2011, it was announced the Rutgers–Newark campus would further expand around Washington Park, converting the former American Insurance Company Building into graduate student housing.[1][2]
In 2011 RBS broke ground on a new school building located on the New Brunswick/Livingston Campus. This new building, which opened in September, 2013, is the focal point for the New Brunswick undergraduate program. Previously, in New Brunswick, RBS shared the Janice H. Levin Building with the School of Labor and Management Relations and Beck Hall with the School of Arts and Sciences on the Livingston Campus.
RBS is ranked by US News #44 in Best Business Schools and 28th in Part-time MBA nationwide.[7]
For the 2024-2025 school year, Bloomberg ranked Rutgers Business School #59 in the nation.[8]
In April 2022, a lawsuit accused RBS of creating fake jobs for graduates to boost MBA program rankings.[9][10] The lawsuit was expanded into a class-action lawsuit.[11][12] The lawsuits were dismissed in Federal Court in September 2023.[13]
Research centers
Blanche & Irwin Lerner Center for Pharmaceutical Management Studies
Mahmud Hassan, director
Center for Governmental Accounting Education & Research
Robert H. Werner, director
Yaw M. Mensah, research director
Institute for Ethical Leadership
James Abruzzo, co-director
Alex Plinio, co-director
Center for Research in Regulated Industries
Michael A. Crew, director
Center for Supply Chain Management
Lei Lei, director
East Asian Business Center
John Cantwell, director
Peter R. Gillett, academic director
Rutgers Accounting Research Center
Miklos Vasarhelyi, director
Technology Management Research Center
George F. Farris, director
Whitcomb Center for Research in Financial Services
Ivan E. Brick and Michael S. Long, co-directors
In April 2017, Rutgers Business School accepted $1 million from IFlytek to create a big data research laboratory.[14] The same company was later placed on a Bureau of Industry and Security blacklist for allegedly enabling human rights abuses in Xinjiang with its technology.[15]