UBC Sauder School of Business


The UBC Sauder School of Business is a faculty at the University of British Columbia. The faculty is located in Vancouver on UBC’s Point Grey campus and has a secondary teaching facility at UBC Robson Square downtown. UBC Sauder is accredited by AACSB.

History

First established in 1956, the UBC Faculty of Commerce and Business Administration was renamed UBC Sauder School of Business in 2003, as a result of a donation of a $20 million endowment by Dr. William Sauder. As a result of a donation from Vancouver business philanthropist Robert H. Lee to support graduate-level education, the Robert H. Lee Graduate School was established at UBC Sauder opened in 2006.
As of 2012, the UBC Sauder School of Business completed a major renovation to its Henry Angus Building on the UBC campus, adding 55,000 square feet to the original 216,000 square-foot building. Designed by Acton Ostry Architects, the renovation added the Cannacord Learning Commons, Wayne Dean Investment Analysis Centre, and the Bruce Birmingham Undergraduate Centre along with new classrooms and a conference center. The current Dean is Robert Helsley.
In November 2019, the UBC Sauder School of Business received public attention for inviting SenseTime, a company sanctioned for enabling human rights abuses in Xinjiang, to a conference.

Programs

The UBC Sauder School of Business offers the following programs:

Graduate Programs (Robert H. Lee Graduate School)

Masters of Business Administration (MBA)

The 16-month full-time MBA has one of North America's most culturally diverse student bodies, with 65–70% of students coming from outside Canada. The part-time MBA, covering the same material as the full-time MBA, is 28 months in length, with classes delivered every two to three weekends at the UBC Point Grey campus. MBA applicants typically have an undergraduate degree, several years of work experience, and a GMAT score of 650–700.
UBC Sauder's MBA program offers specialized career tracks combined with practical experience. The program focuses on experimental learning and global immersion. The curriculum, built around experiential learning, builds on five themes: creativity, decision-making, ethics and sustainability, global issues and macroeconomics, and leadership development. Outside the classroom, students will be exposed to international business and gain experience with the Global Immersion Program, and have the chance to choose between one of three career tracks, or build a custom career track.
The program culminates with the Capstone, a three-day live-case competition, where students present solutions to real business problems to CEOs and business leaders, often being invited to present in head offices.
Rankings
UBC Sauder is consistently ranked among the top 100 business schools by organizations such as the Financial Times and The Economist. The MBA program was indexed as the 16th best in North America in the 2015 QS Global 200 Business Schools Report. In 2015, the Financial Times ranked the MBA ranked second among Canadian business schools and in the top 5% of MBA programs worldwide; UBC Sauder was also ranked #1 in North America for “international mobility”, #1 in North America for "international faculty", and #5 in North American for International Students. The UBC MBA program has also been recognized in the Corporate Knights 2014 Global Green MBA Survey as 2nd in the world for its efforts to integrate sustainability into business education and was listed 23rd by Forbes in its top global business schools report.

International Masters of Business Administration (IMBA)

The 20-month part-time IMBA, in collaboration with the Antai College of Economics and Management at Shanghai Jiao Tong University, one of the oldest and most prestigious and selective universities in China, was launched in 2002, offering professionals the chance to study part-time in China, and an intensive two-week Residency at the UBC Point Grey campus in Vancouver. The UBC IMBA program has been specially adapted for the Chinese and Asian markets, and is taught entirely in English by UBC Sauder School of Business professors. The program emphasizes active learning through lectures, case studies, problem-based learning, and group projects. IMBA students also conclude their program with the Capstone.

Masters of Management (MM)

The Masters of Management is a 9-month pre-experience program, designed for recent graduates looking to complement their bachelor's degree in non-business disciplines. The MM program provides students with the chance to learn topics such as financial reporting, organizational behaviour, strategic management in a collaborative environment. Throughout the program, students also receive career development programming to help them grow in their career paths, consult for non-for-profit organizations with the Community Business Project to gain real-world experience, and may participate in study abroad programs. The Masters of Management has been recognized as one of the top 50 Masters of Management degrees in the world by the 2014 Financial Times.

Bachelor + Masters of Management (B+MM) Dual Degree

The Bachelor + Masters of Management Dual Degree program is a unique career-focused program offered, offering eligible students the ability to hold both a bachelor's degree and a Master of Management at the end of their time at UBC.

Ph.D. in Business Administration

Undergraduate Program: Bachelor of Commerce (BCom)

UBC Sauder's Bachelor of Commerce offers twelve different options to provide students the ability to specialize and customize their degrees. These options are: Accounting, Marketing, Real Estate, Finance, International Business, Operations & Logistics, Organizational Behaviour & Human Resources, General Business Management, Business Technology Management, Global Supply Chain and Logistics Management, Entrepreneurship and Business & Computer Science. Students can further choose within their option to add a sustainability concentration.

Admissions

Although the minimum required grade point average is 84%, the entering class of 2017 had a mean GPA of 92%.
In the Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2016–2017, UBC Sauder is ranked 1st in Canada and 19th globally for business and economics studies.
According to the British Columbia Higher Education Accountability Dataset, student that put Sauder as their first choice has a 40% acceptance rate with 52% of them accepting their offer to the program.
The Dual undergraduate degree with Sciences Po
was a highly selective program in which undergraduate students earned a Bachelor of Arts from Sciences Po and a Bachelor of Commerce from the UBC Sauder School of Business in four years. Students spent two years at one of three Sciences Po campuses in France, each of which is devoted to a particular region of the world. After two years, students matriculated at UBC. Graduates of the program are guaranteed admission to a Sciences Po graduate program. High school students were eligible to apply. The Dual undergraduate degree program with Sciences Po has since been discontinued, with the last intake of students occurring in September of 2017.

Post-Baccalaureate Programs

Portfolio Management Foundation

The Portfolio Management Foundation is a two year extra curricular program that is available to BCom students starting at the end their 2nd year. The program provides training for students wishing to pursue a career in Capital Markets and also offers students the opportunity to manage a multi-million dollar endowment fund. The program is run by the Dean of Sauder School of Business along with a PMF Board of Directors.

Executive Education

UBC Sauder offers Executive Education with more than 100 seminars that cater to individual needs and also offers custom programs for organizations, which include executive training programs in Asia and Europe. It has a number of partnerships such as with the Project Management Institute, Edumine and the FRED Scholars Program. UBC Sauder's Executive Education has been ranked 51st in the world in 2013 by the Financial Times.

Real Estate Division

The Real Estate Division at UBC Sauder is a full service supplier of online and classroom education services: licensing and mortgage brokerage courses and examinations as well as credit and professional development courses. UBC Sauder offers real estate licensing services on behalf of regulatory bodies in British Columbia like BCREA, PAMA, RECBC, and AIC among others.
All courses are available by distance education and assistance is given to students via webinars, online resources, and email and telephone tutoring.
The Real Estate Division also has a publishing arm, providing print and online publications like real estate textbooks, workbooks, case studies, on-line lectures and custom produced course materials.

Other Non-Degree Programs

UBC Sauder consistently ranks in the top 30 – among non-U.S. business schools worldwide – for business research by the Social Science Research Network. The SSRN, a leading repository of business and management research papers, ranks UBC Sauder 16th out of 771 international business schools, not including U.S. schools, for research downloads of all time.

Research Centres

The school is host to 15 specialized research centres.

Notable alumni