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University at Buffalo (UB), The State University of New York, US

Highlights

  • Accredited by the US Middle States Commission on Higher Education
  • UB School of Management is accredited by AACSB International – Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business
  • 1st public university in New York to be admitted into the Association of American Universities – group of North America’s top research universities
  • Top 50 U.S. public and private research universities
  • 17th among American colleges and universities in percentage of international enrollment

Founded in 1846, the University at Buffalo (UB) is the largest, most comprehensive of the 64-campus State University of New York system.

Recognised as one of North America’s leading research-intensive universities, UB is home to the renowned Roswell Park Cancer Institute, New York State Centre of Excellence in Bioinformatics and Life Sciences, and nationally-ranked programmes in business, engineering, geographic information systems and the medical and pharmaceutical sciences.

UB has an enrolment of over 29,000 students and offers more than 300 degree programmes. Its faculty members have been recipients of the Nobel Prize, the US National Medal of Science, the Pulitzer Prize, the MacArthur Foundation Genius Award, and Guggenheim and Rockefeller Foundation grants.

Its 230,000-strong alumni in 130 countries include such luminaries as:

Li Yanhong (Robin) – co-founder of Baidu.com, largest Chinese search engine and second-largest independent search engine in the world;

Harvey Weinstein – co-founder of Miramax Films;

Wolf Blitzer – award-winning journalist at CNN;

Tom Toles – Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist at the Washington Post.

UB is accredited by the US Middle States Commission on Higher Education. Its School of Management is accredited by AACSB International (the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business).

UB is the first public university in New York to be admitted into the Association of American Universities – a group of top research universities.

UB is ranked 17th among American colleges and universities in percentage of international enrolment.

UB-SIM successful collaboration

“UB and SIM have enjoyed a longstanding and mutually beneficial relationship, having collaborated in the delivery of a part-time Executive Master of Business Administration programme since 1996, and nine other highly successful full-time undergraduate programmes since 2004. SIM is well regarded for the excellence of its education programmes, and it shares UB’s commitment to the highest academic standards. We look forward to continuing to build our successful collaboration with SIM.”

– Professor Stephen C Dunnett, Vice Provost for International Education,
University at Buffalo.

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