The Farmer School of Business at Miami University is the 12th best public undergraduate business school according to Business Week. The departments include Accountancy, Economics, Finance, Management, Marketing and Decision Science/Management Information Systems. The business school is currently housed in two major buildings on the flagship campus in Oxford, Ohio, Laws and Upham Halls. It normally confers more than 1,000 Bachelor of Science degrees in Business each year. In addition, full and part-time Master of Business Administration, MBA. Master of Arts in Economics, and Master of Accountancy are conferred. The School's name was officially changed from "Richard T. Farmer School of Business" to "Farmer School of Business" in 2007.
The school includes a number of centers and programs, including The Howe Writing Initiative; Thomas C. Page Center for Entrepreneurship; Laws, Hall & Associates; Center for Innovation in Communications and Information Technologies; Center for Interactive Media Studies; Buck Rodgers Leadership Program; Summer Business Institute; Summer International programs; China Business Program; Mock Trial Team; Executive Speaker Series; Anderson Distinguished Lecturer Series; US Bancorp Distinguished Lecture Series; and the Professional and Self Development Skills Initiative.
It was endowed in 1991 by Richard T. Farmer, one of the most wealthy men in Ohio and chairman of the board of the Cintas Corporation. In 2005, Richard and Joyce Farmer and the Farmer Family Foundation continued its support of Miami University with a gift of $30 million. A new 210,000 square foot school of business building is currently in construction to be completed during Miami University's 2009 bicentennial year. The building will be named "Farmer Business School", recognizing its gracious benefactor.
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