The Peter B. Gustavson School of Business is a business school at the University of Victoria located in the municipality of Oak Bay, British Columbia. Originally the school was called the UVic Faculty of Business, but on October 22, 2010, the name was changed when Peter B. Gustavson donated $10 million to the school.
On October 7, 2011, Sardul S. Gill gave a $5 million gift to the Gustavson School and the graduate school was renamed as the Sardul S. Gill Graduate School at the Gustavson School of Business.
The school provides bachelor, master's, MBA, Ph.D. and Executive Education programs. These include:
About.
The institution was established in 1990.
Accreditation.
The Gustavson School of Business is one of the seven business schools in Canada that is double-accredited by both AACSB and EQUIS, two of the international accreditations of management education.
The Peter B. Gustavson School was first awarded accreditation in February 2007 and has since maintained the EQUIS Quality label.
On December 17, 2010, Gustavson was awarded accreditation to the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business.
Programs.
The Gustavson School of Business offers the following programs:
Bachelor of Commerce (BCom).
Gustavson has a "2+2" program structure, meaning students take pre-commerce coursework and a number of required courses in the first two years of their degree. Required courses in these first 2 years include "Microeconomics", "Finite Mathematics", "Academic Reading &amp; Writing", "Statistics for Business", and a choice of either "The Literature of Our Era", "Great Moments in English Literature" or "Technical Communications: Written and Verbal" along with 15 electives of your choice. Recommended electives include classes in entrepreneurship, sociology, digital humanities, philosophy, and more.
Gustavson does not use the traditional business curriculum and, instead, uses three fields of specialization: international business, service management and entrepreneurship. Gustavson is the business school that teaches all specializations in an “integrative” manner with collaborative/team-based instruction.
One strategy to attract high achieving students at the Gustavson School of Business is the mandatory co-op mandate for all undergraduates.
 The business school has failed to acknowledge whether students are co-oping at companies of relevance.
Master of Business Administration (MBA).
The UVic MBA at the Gill Graduate School can be completed in either Daytime or Evening schedules. The Daytime program or Full-time MBA is 17 months in length with a specialization and a co-op term. During the specialization term, students have the option of either studying at an international partner institutions in more than 12 different countries or choose one of the two specializations at Gustavson. Each non-exchange student also participates in an international integrated management exercise (IIME), at which time the students travel to Asia, Europe or Latin America to experience doing business in a foreign country. Most of the same curriculum, with the exception of specialization, is covered in the Evening program, which is 24 months in length, with classes on one weekend in each month.
Master of Global Business (MGB).
The Master of Global Business (MGB) degree program offers those with undergraduate degrees in Commerce, Business Administration or Management, the opportunity to specialize in international business management and leadership at a graduate level.
The MGB program is primarily located at the University of Victoria campus in Victoria, BC, with components delivered by Gustavson faculty at overseas partner institutions in both Asia, at National Sun Yat-Sen University in Kaohsiung, Taiwan; and Europe, at Johannes Kepler University in Linz, Austria.
Research.
The school has a number of specialized research centres that serve collaborative initiatives between faculty, students and the wider community such as government, industry, alumni and NGOs. These Centres serve to promote the research environment, and are homes for major research grants and projects.
Centres include:
Business Co-op and Career Centre.
The Business Career Centre at Gustavson is a hub for career-related activities.
International Programs.
Students participating in the exchange program spend one semester in their final year studying at one of 100+ partner universities in 34 countries learning the local language and business practices. At Gustavson, 80 per cent of undergraduate students participate in an international exchange.
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