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In the past six months, the Belk College of Business received three major rankings and top marks recognizing the MBA program’s exceptional quality of education, outstanding ROI, top job placement rates, and high starting salaries upon graduation. The Belk College was recognized in October in Bloomberg Businessweek’s biennial ranking of part-time MBA programs, placing No. […]

The North Carolina Association of Certified Public Accountants (NCACPA) has announced that Dr. Gary F. Kohut, Professor of Management and Director of the MBA Program in the Belk College of Business, received a 5.0 Discussion Leader Award for 2015. Kohut will be recognized at NCACPA’s Annual Business Meeting and Recognition Dinner on May 3 at […]

Two Belk College alumni were among those recognized in the Charlotte Business Journal‘s 40 Under 40 awards celebration in March. Congratulations to: alumnus Michael DiFabion (’03 management). Michael is director of sales at DiFabion Remodeling, Inc. alumnus Bryan Delaney (’03 management information systems) on receiving a Charlotte Business Journal 40 Under 40 Award on March […]

UNC Charlotte’s Belk College of Business made big gains in the part-time MBA rankings by U.S. News and World Report, placing among the top 20 percent of all business schools nationwide. The Belk College’s part-time MBA jumped 27 spots in the 2017 “Best Graduate Schools” rankings released Wednesday, landing at No. 59 among national universities […]

The North Carolina economy continues to grow, but there are several areas to watch in 2016, UNC Charlotte economist John Connaughton reported today in the Babson Capital Management/UNC Charlotte Economic Forecast. “The N.C. economy is growing slightly more than expected and continues the trend of growth in N.C. Gross State Product for the past four […]

The Counselors of Real Estate Carolinas chapter recognized UNC Charlotte graduate student Benjamin Cuevas with a “Creative Thinker” scholarship on Feb. 24. Cuevas, who is in the Master of Science in Real Estate program at UNC Charlotte, received a $1,000 scholarship, awarded annually to a university student for creativity in commercial real estate. Cuevas is […]

Belk College graduate student Teresa Hocutt was met with applause on January 12 as she accepted a $4,000 Wells Fargo-CREW scholarship from the Charlotte chapter of Commercial Real Estate Women (CREW). “It’s such an honor to be supported by a successful group of women and to be able to gain mentorship and advice from women […]

Jacob Skrutowski, a junior in marketing, and Jeremy Ernst, a junior in computer science, were watching a movie and scrolling through their social media accounts when Skrutowski found a Facebook post for a national marketing competition by Unilever. Every year, Unilever offers a contest called UniGame, in which students can share their marketing ideas to […]

UNC Charlotte’s MBA has once again been recognized as a top program in the country. CEO Magazine has ranked the Belk College of Business’ MBA in its “Tier 1” for North American universities in the newly released 2016 CEO Magazine Global MBA Rankings. CEO Magazine examines the nuts and bolts of an MBA: the learning […]

Turn on a TV and be bombarded by ads for new medications. Yet, new research indicates that the firms that aggressively market these drugs are less likely to produce truly pioneering ones. In studies published by UNC Charlotte faculty members Denis Arnold and Jennifer Troyer, research shows the more pharmaceutical firms spend on marketing drugs, […]