University of Akron College of Business

The University of Akron
College of Business

College of Business Building
Type	Public
Established	1953
Dean	Robert J. Nemer
Academic staff	102
Undergraduates	2,600
Postgraduates	450
Location	Akron, Ohio , U.S. 41°04′39″N 81°31′04″W / 41.0775°N 81.5178°W / 41.0775; -81.5178
Website	uakron.edu/business

The University of Akron College of Business is a dual accredited AACSB business school of the University of Akron in Akron, Ohio. The college has a total enrollment of nearly 1,700 undergraduate students and 217 graduate students.^[1] All of the college's programs are accredited by AACSB International – the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business.^[2] The college currently uses two buildings, the first which was opened in 1991, is a four-story, 81,000-square-foot (7,500 m²) structure with 19 classrooms.^[3] In 2020, it was expanded with an newly built professional development building, increasing both the number of classrooms and office facilities. In addition, the college's marketing department is housed in the Polsky building, where it occupies the fifth floor.

There are several institutes and research centers in the college, including the Fisher Institute for Professional Selling, the Fitzgerald Institute for Entrepreneurial Studies,^[4] the Institute for Global Business, the Taylor Institute for Direct Marketing, the Center for Information Technology and e-Business, the Center for Organizational Development, the Center for Research and Training in Information Security and Assurance and the Suarez Applied Marketing Research Laboratories.