The Schulich School of Business is the business school of York University located in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The institution provides undergraduate and graduate degree and diploma programs in business administration, finance, accounting, business analytics, public administration and international business as well as a number of PhD and executive programs. Originally known as the Faculty of Administrative Studies (FAS), it was renamed in 1995 after Seymour Schulich, a major benefactor who has donated $15 million to the school. The Dean of the School, Detlev Zwick, was appointed in 2021 after having served as Interim Dean for 15 months.
Primarily located at the Seymour Schulich Building on the Keele Campus in Toronto, Ontario, the school also maintains an executive education centre in Toronto's Financial District in downtown Toronto and satellite campuses in Hyderabad, India and Beijing, China. The school also has satellite centres in Shanghai, Mumbai, Seoul, São Paulo, and Mexico City. Schulich offers undergraduate, graduate and postgraduate business degrees that lead to careers in the private, public and nonprofit sectors, and has more than 34,000 alumni working in approximately 90 countries. Schulich pioneered Canada's first International MBA (IMBA) and International BBA (iBBA) degrees, as well as North America's first cross-border executive MBA degree, the Kellogg-Schulich Executive MBA. Schulich's Executive Education Centre provides executive development programs annually to more than 16,000 executives in Canada and abroad.
History
The Schulich School of Business was known as the Faculty of Administrative Studies which was founded in 1966. Before the establishment of the Seymour Schulich Building on the Keele Campus in 2003, the school was run from a York University building, currently renamed as Health, Nursing & Environmental Studies Building. In 1995, following a major monetary donation from Canadian billionaire Seymour Schulich, the school underwent a series of changes that created the present-day Schulich School of Business.
Campuses
Seymour Schulich Building
The Seymour Schulich Building opened in August 2003 and cost $102 million. The building was jointly designed by Siamak Hariri and Robbie Young + Wright Architectural and was awarded the Governor General's Medal in Architecture in 2006. The Seymour Schulich Building and its Executive Learning Centre houses the Peter F. Bronfman Business Library, Executive Dining Room, Robert R. McEwen Auditorium, York Entrepreneurship Development Institute, Tuchner's Pub & Eatery, Starbucks, the central courtyard, the Executive Learning Centre hotel, and a number of small lecture halls.
In December 2017, the $120 million York University Station opened directly across from the Seymour Schulich Building's main entrance. Designed by Foster + Partners, the station design considers the surrounding public space and connections to the city, and uses natural light to intuitively guide passengers from the entrance down to the platforms. With the Line 1 Yonge–University subway running underneath a lecture hall on Schulich's East Wing, in 2021, Metrolinx conducted a study to analyse the latest sound and vibration technology that was used to plan and design the Yonge North Subway Extension.
Rob and Cheryl McEwen Graduate Study & Research Building
The Rob and Cheryl McEwen Graduate Study & Research Building opened in 2019 – attributed to an $8 million donation from the McEwen family. The 67,000 square-foot facility – which cost $50 million to build and which was designed by the firm Baird Sampson Neuert Architects – is one of the most environmentally sustainable academic buildings in North America. The building has won a number of awards for design excellence and has received LEED Gold certification – one of the highest standards of sustainability for a building. Centered around a generously proportioned atrium—which will serve as a communal space—the building also houses a Seattle's Best Coffee café, a student marketplace, and a fitness & wellness centre, as well as a landscaped outdoor courtyard.
Miles S. Nadal Management Centre
Management programs are held in downtown Toronto at the Miles S. Nadal Management Centre which is located at 222 Bay Street in the Toronto-Dominion Centre.
India Campus
In 2014, Schulich opened a $100 million satellite campus in Hyderabad, India, a collaboration with the GMR School of Business. The campus gives students the opportunity to complete their India MBA consisting of a first year spent in India followed by a second year in Toronto.