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The City University has a partnership agreement with the private BHMS Business and Hotel Management School in Lucerne.<ref>[http://www.bhms.ch/mba-programs/mba-accreditation Website BHMS<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref> There the programs in partnership with the CityU are still offered and students from the closed site near Zurich were allowed to transfer there.
The City University has a partnership agreement with the private BHMS Business and Hotel Management School in Lucerne.<ref>[http://www.bhms.ch/mba-programs/mba-accreditation Website BHMS<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref> There the programs in partnership with the CityU are still offered and students from the closed site near Zurich were allowed to transfer there.

In early 2012, the Slovakian branch of City University (Vysoká Škola Manažmentu) was rated as the number one business school in Slovakia which gave it a top 275 world wide ranking.


==Notable alumni and faculty==
==Notable alumni and faculty==

Revision as of 12:24, 20 August 2012

City University of Seattle
File:City University of Seattle logo - CityUSeattle h 2c.svg
MottoCitywise
TypePrivate, Not-For-Profit
Established1973
PresidentLee Gorsuch
Academic staff
900+
Students7,639[1]
Location
Seattle
,
Washington
,
United States
CampusUnited States, Canada, Mexico, Europe, China
Websitecityu.edu

City University of Seattle, also known as CityU, is a private not-for-profit institution of higher learning based in Seattle, Washington. CityU currently enrolls 7,639 students worldwide (08/09). The university consists of the School of Management, Albright School of Education, the Division of Arts/Sciences and Management Institute. CityU of Seattle offers campus education around the world and online education.

History

City University was established in 1973 as City College by Dr. Michael A. Pastore to provide higher education for working adults. Over the years, the school has expanded its locations worldwide and negotiated partnerships with other educational institutions to offer certificate and degree programs. To date, [when?]City University has graduated over 40,000 students worldwide.

Accreditation

City University of Seattle holds regional institutional accreditation from the Northwest Commission on Colleges and Universities (NWCCU).

Currently, City University of Seattle's School of Management is a candidate for accreditation through the Accreditation Council for Business Schools and Programs (ACBSP).[2]

Campus

CityU's new headquarters will be located at downtown Seattle's 6th Avenue and Wall Street, in the renovated Seattle Post Intelligencer building. CityU also has 27 campuses around the world.

Partnerships

Partnerships with Washington state colleges include:

International partnership include:

Academic

Programs

The university offers certificates, associates, bachelors, masters and doctoral programs in a variety of subjects, including:

  • Business administration
  • Education
  • Accounting
  • Computer systems
  • Project management
  • Counseling
  • Psychology
  • Communications
  • Database technology
  • Networking/Telecommunications
  • Leadership
  • Sustainable business

School of Education

The university's School of Education is named after Dr. Gordon Albright, a long serving teacher and principal in the Seattle School District, who spent several years on the Seattle University faculty. He advised the university at its founding, laid the groundwork for its School of Education in 1989, and guided the approval of its teacher preparation by the State of Washington, and is also credited with the initial design of the Master of Education programs.[citation needed] He retired in 2000 and the School of Education was named in his honor.

School of Management

Although based in the Pacific Northwest, the university has established a g presence around the globe by annually conferring degrees locally on three continents. Programs are established in Slovakia, Czech Republic, Switzerland, Bulgaria, Greece, Romania, Mexico, Canada, Australia and China. The School of Management launched of one of the first MBA programs in Eastern Europe [3] in 1991 and one of the earliest government approved foreign MBA programs in China in 1996. This has led to partnership with local colleges and universities in eleven countries. In 1999, the university's business school entered a partnership with Institutul Bancar Roman and the Romanian National Bank to offer business education and training to commercial banks and financial institutions. A partnership was also formed with CETYS Universidad and Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León of Mexico to offer business education.

Reputation

United States

  • Forbes Magazine listed City University of Seattle as one of the "Top Twenty Universities" offering distance learning programs in the United States.[4] Fast Company performed an editorial review of five U.S. universities offering online degee programs, gave CityU a grade of A-.[5] In 2008, OEDb, a for profit organization, ranked CityU's online program as 28th in the nation. CityU is also published on the Bear's Guide to The Best MBAs by Distance Learning.[6]
  • The University's Students In Free Enterprise (SIFE) team was the overall league champion of 2006 and 2007. It is the only SIFE team in North America that is made up entirely of international students and the only Western Washington team to advance to the national competition.

International

  • City University of Seattle's Business School joint partnership with the Beijing University of Technology was recognized by World Executive Weekly, a leading Chinese management periodical established by Nobel Prize winner in economics, Robert A. Mundell, as "The Top Ten Most Influential Sino-Foreign Joint MBA Programs" in China. [citation needed] After establishing programs in Bulgaria, City University of Seattle's MBA program is considered to be an excellent addition to the educational spectrum available in the Balkan region.[citation needed]

Swiss and Slovakian branches

The City University has a partnership agreement with the private BHMS Business and Hotel Management School in Lucerne.[7] There the programs in partnership with the CityU are still offered and students from the closed site near Zurich were allowed to transfer there.

Notable alumni and faculty

References

  1. ^ http://cityu.edu/pdf/Accreditation_2010.pdf
  2. ^ http://www.acbsp.org/p/cm/ld/fid=14
  3. ^ Online Extra: The B-School Boom Goes East
  4. ^ Wired Degrees Forbes' 20 top Cyber-U.s - Forbes.com
  5. ^ Do These Online Schools Make the Grade? | Fast Company
  6. ^ Bears' guide to the best MBAs by ... - Google Books
  7. ^ Website BHMS
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