Notable business school firsts

1759 - The Aula do Comércio in Lisbon was the world's first institution to specialise in the teaching of commerce. It provided a model for development of similar government-sponsored schools across Europe, and closed in 1844. [1]
1819 - The Ecole Supérieure de Commerce of Paris (now ESCP-EAP European School of Management) was founded. It is the oldest business school in the world. [2]
1881 - The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania was founded as the first business school within a broader university
1889 - The predecessor of Manchester Metropolitan University Business School was founded as the first school teaching commerce in the United Kingdom. [3]
1898 - The University of St. Gallen established, the first university in Switzerland teaching business and economics.
1898 - The University of Chicago Graduate School of Business was the first business school to offer a PhD program and an Executive MBA program. It is the first business school to have a Nobel laureate on its faculty: George Stigler won the prize after retiring from the school in 1981. It is also the first business school to have six Nobel laureates on its faculty.
1898 - The College of Commerce at the University of California, Berkeley, later renamed the Haas School of Business, was founded as the first business school at a public university
1900 - The Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College was founded as the first graduate school of business, offering the first master's degree in business administration, titled the "Master of Commercial Science"
1907 - The École des Hautes Études Commerciales de Montréal (HEC Montréal) was founded as the first business school in Canada [4]
1909 - Stockholm School of Economics or Handelshögskolan i Stockholm was founded as the first institution dedicated to business and economics in Sweden.
1910 - Harvard Business School was the first business school to offer a degree called the "MBA" 1911 - Helsinki School of Economics or Helsingin kauppakorkeakoulu was founded as the first Finnish-language institution dedicated to business and economics in Finland.
1921 - Nanjing University (then named National Southeastern University and later renamed National Central University and Nanjing University) moved the Faculty of Business originated in 1917 from Nanjing to Shanghai to establish the university business school, which was the first professional Chinese university business school. Later the school became Shanghai University of Finance and Economics, and Nanjing University Business School was refounded, as well as the School of Management at NCU in Taiwan.
1949 - The University of Pretoria was the first University outside the United States to offer an MBA [5]
1957 - INSEAD, near Paris, France, became the first European institution to offer an MBA program. 1958 - Fundação Getúlio Vargas was the first business school founded in Latin America to offer an MBA-type qualification
1964 - National Chengchi University offered the first Chinese MBA program. [6][7][8]
1964 - INCAE Business School or Instituto Centroamericano de Administración de Empresas was founded by Harvard Business School [9] 1966 - The National Institute of Development Administration or NIDA was the first graduate school that offer an MBA program in Thailand 1973 - The École des Affaires de Paris (EAP) (now ESCP-EAP) was the first business school with campuses in three countries 1991 - The IEDC-Bled School of Management was the first business school to offer an MBA program in Eastern Europe.
1992 - The Thunderbird School of Global Management was the first business school to have campuses on three continents.