Tuck School of Business

Founded in 1900, the Amos Tuck School of Business Administration at Dartmouth College is the world's oldest graduate school of management, one of the top business schools in the United States, and one of the top three in the world. Located in Hanover, New Hampshire, Tuck offers only one degree program, the MBA, alongside shorter programmes for executives and recent graduates. It co-operates with a Masters in Engineering Management offered by Dartmouth's Thayer School of Engineering.

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Dartmouth College - Graduate school - Management - Hanover, New Hampshire - MBA - Thayer School of Engineering

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The school was established by Edward Tuck, and was originally named the Amos Tuck School of Administration and Finance (in memory of his father). In 1941, the name was changed to the Amos Tuck School of Business Administration. Since 2000, the school has referred to itself as the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth.

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Edward Tuck - 1941

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Tuck initially donated $300,000 in the form of 1,700 shares of preferred stock in the Great Northern Railway Company of Minnesota. He later gave $100,000 to build the first Tuck Hall (now McNutt Hall) in 1901, and over $500,000 for the current Tuck Hall complex in 1929.

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Shares - Preferred stock - Great Northern Railway Company of Minnesota - McNutt Hall - 1901 - 1929

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The Tuck School has been ranked first for several years by the Wall Street Journal and The Economist, and consistently ranks among the top ten business schools in the world. It is the leading American business school internationally, ranking third worldwide. Many leading business schools in other countries have exchange programs with Tuck, including the Handelshochschule Leipzig (HHL), IESE and London Business School.

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Wall Street Journal - The Economist - Handelshochschule Leipzig (HHL) - IESE - London Business School

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