The UCD Michael Smurfit Graduate Business School is the business school

Business school

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 of University College Dublin

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, located in Blackrock in Dublin, Republic of Ireland

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The Smurfit School is a member institution of the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business

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 International (AACSB); the European Quality Improvement System

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 (EQUIS), the quality improvement system administered by the European Foundation for Management Development

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; and the Association of MBAs

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. The school is also a member of the Global Alliance in Management Education

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, an alliance of 26 academic institutions and over 50 leading multinational corporation

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The Economist Intelligence Unit

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 ranked the full-time MBA programme 31st (in 2010) and 38 (in 2011 ) in the world and the only Irish business school to gain a place in the rankings of the "top 100" schools. The Financial Times

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ranked the school in the world's top 100 full-time MBA programs. The newspaper ranked the Smurfit School's executive MBA programme 54th in the world and 20th in Europe.

Subject areas

• Accountancy
• Banking & Finance
• Industrial Relation & Human Resources
• Management
• Marketing
• MIS

Programmes

UCD Smurfit School offers a broad range of full-time and part-time postgraduate business programmes.

• MBA
  • Full-Time MBA
  • Executive MBA
• Masters
  • Accounting and Finance
  • iBusiness - Innovation through ICT
  • International Business
  • Management
  • Marketing
  • Technology
  • General Mangement
  • Research Masters (MPhil)
  • Human Resource Management
• Doctoral Studies
• Executive Education
• Master in Management by Distance Learning

Alumnus of the Year

2011 - Patrick Kennedy BComm ‘90, DipPrAcc ‘91

2010 - Michael Carey BComm '83 MBS '84

2009 - Prof. Michael MacCormac BComm ‘47, BA ‘47, MA ‘48, MComm ‘61, DEconSc ‘81

2008 - Gina Quin BA '80 ,MBA '88

2007 - Tony Garry MBS '77

2006 - Liam Fitzgerald MBS '87

2005 - Ned Sullivan MBS '73

2004 - Patrick Haren MBA '86

2003 - Richard Keatinge MBA '78

2002 - Michael Somers BComm '64

2001 - Gerry Murphy MBS '83

2000 - Vivienne Jupp MBS '75

1999 - Jerry Liston MBA '68

1998 - Maurice Keane Bcomm '63

1997 - Roy Douglas MBS '72

1996 - Brian Sweeney MBA '75

1995 - John Teeling BComm '66

1994 - Thomas Toner MBA '66

1993 - Richard Hooper BComm '66

1992 - George Moore MBS '73

1991 - Maurice Foley BComm '69, MBA '69