Thunderbird School of Global Management

Thunderbird School of Global Management
Former name
American Institute for Foreign Trade
TypePublic business school
Established8 April 1946; 78 years ago (1946-04-08)
Parent institution
Arizona State University
DeanCharla Griffy-Brown
Location
Phoenix
,
Arizona
,
United States
CampusUrban
ColorsThunderbird Blue, Gold and Grey[1]
     
Websitethunderbird.asu.edu

Thunderbird School of Global Management (or simply Thunderbird) is a global leadership, management, and business school at Arizona State University, a public research university in the Phoenix metropolitan area. It was founded in 1946 as an independent, private institution and acquired by Arizona State University in 2014. The school moved to ASU's Downtown Phoenix campus in 2018.[2] The campus built a new $75 million building for the school in 2021.

Thunderbird is a unit of the Arizona State University Enterprise.[3][4] Its programs are accredited by the Higher Learning Commission and the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB).[5]

As of 2018, the school had around 45,000 alumni,[6] also referred to as "Thunderbirds.”

  1. ^ "Thunderbird Brand Usage Guidelines" (PDF). Thunderbird School of Global Management. Arizona State University. 2018. Retrieved 18 February 2019.
  2. ^ "ASU will move student classes". www.bizjournals.com. Retrieved 2019-05-15.
  3. ^ "Research and innovation at Arizona State University | Knowledge Enterprise".
  4. ^ Chelsea A. Olson, "Thunderbird, a unit of the Arizona State University Knowledge Enterprise: What does that really mean?" Article in Das Tor (Thunderbird student newspaper), 1 Jan. 2015. Reprinted on pp. 44 ff of "Thunderbird Magazine". Arizona Memory Project. 18 May 2016.
  5. ^ "Rankings & Accreditation | Thunderbird School of Global Management".
  6. ^ "Thunderbird alumni gather to say goodbye to their iconic campus". Arizona State University. April 8, 2018. Retrieved 2018-06-12.