Monte Ahuja College of Business


The Monte Ahuja College of Business is the business school at Cleveland State University in Cleveland, Ohio. With more than 3,000 current students and over 19,000 alumni, the Monte Ahuja College of Business ranks among the largest in Ohio. It is fully accredited by the AACSB and currently offers the Bachelor of Business Administration undergraduate degree with a number of majors and minors, six graduate degree programs, one dual graduate degree program and one doctoral degree program.

Location

Monte Ahuja College of Business is located in Downtown Cleveland. It is bounded on the East 18th Street of Euclid Avenue and Chester Avenue.

History

The college was first formed as the Nance College of Business, named for James J. Nance, a Cleveland industrialist who served as the university's first chairman of the board of trustees. At the onset, it was an applied vocational school, and was housed in World War II-era Quonset huts, without any permanent building on campus.
In 1970, the college was renamed to the James J. Nance College of Business Administration. In 2011, it was again renamed, to the Monte Ahuja College of Business, after former CSU Board of Trustees chair Monte Ahuja. Ahuja had donated $10 million to the school, the largest gift in the University’s 47-year history.

Programs and majors

Its Ahuja Accounting Programs are among a group of 168 accounting programs worldwide that hold Accounting Accreditation from AACSB International.
Ahuja's Department of Finance is active in three areas:
BBA
The Global Business Center was created to sustain education and training programs in global business.

Honors

The college was honored on June 21, 2006 with the Ohio Governor's Excellence in Exporting Award, presented by then-Governor Bob Taft.