School of Management




California Lutheran University's School of Business has a long tradition of providing graduate education to thousands of aspiring professionals. Over the years, the school's programs have grown in distinction and scope. Today, graduate degrees are offered in business administration, computer science, economics and information systems and technology.

To celebrate its 25th Anniversary since its formation as a graduate school the School of Business has been renamed the School of Management. The change highlights CLU's commitment to educate the next generation of business, community and service professionals who will thrive in a global society.

CLU values the continued support of its graduate students, alumni, staff, faculty and friends. Thank you for sharing in this celebration and partnering with us to shape the next 25 years!


Meet the Silver Anniversary Alumni

A Tradition of Excellence

  • Recognized as one of 80 top business schools in North America as listed in QS Global 200 Top Business Schools 2010/2011 Report.
  • Over 3,000 graduate business degrees have been awarded since 1974 and 80 percent of the alumni live and work locally.
  • Foundation of the Center for Economic Research and Forecasting (CERF) that provides regional, state and US economic forecasts:
    • "The Cal Lutheran economic team has emerged as one of the state's best grounded and far-seeing prognosticators on California's ever-changing, rollercoaster economy." – Dan Walters, Sacramento Bee Columnist
    • "The Cal Lutheran team is one of California's best - which of course often means being willing to share bad news as well as good. Their presentation skills are exceeded only by the accuracy of their forecasting."– Joel Kotkin, author, speaker and futurist
  • Foundation of the Center for Leadership & Values that provides economic impact reports (e.g. CLU economic impact in the county, state and nation).
  • Over this past decade, the full-time faculty in the School of Management has doubled from about 12 to 25, and the quality of the faculty has never been higher.
    • In 2010, two of our economists, Dan Hamilton and Kirk Lesh, won a prestigious national research award from The National Association for Business Economics.
    • Somnath Basu, Ph.D. and Harry Starn, Ph.D. received recognition in Outstanding Leadership by an Individual in the Field of Distance Learning award from the U.S. Distance Learning Association for their achievements in building a distinguished online program in Financial Planning. The Online Financial Planning program won a USDLA award in 2007.
    • Faculty members of the School of Management have published in a variety of international journals including: the Journal of Small Business Management, the Journal of World Business, the European Journal of International Management, Problems and Perspectives in Management, the Journal of Financial Services Quarterly, the Journal for International Business and Cultural Studies, Business Economics, and others
  • Recognized for excellence in business education by the San Fernando Valley Business Journal in June 2011.
  • Received an Export Excellence Award from the Department of Commerce's International Trade Administration for demonstrating success and support for export growth.

A Tradition of Innovation

  • Tremendous growth in the number, quality and variety of graduate programs offered by the School of Management:
    • 2001: 238 students in part-time MBA; 2010- 560 students enrolled
    • 2002: addition of an International MBA program
    • 2003: addition of a Master of Science in Computer Science program
    • 2004: addition of an Online MBA Program in Financial Planning
    • 2008: addition of a Master of Science in Information Systems and Technology program
    • 2009: addition of an Online MBA program
    • 2009: addition of a Master of Science in Economics program
    • 2011: addition of a MBA program in Austria
  • Strong International MBA program with 100 full-time MBA students from China, Taiwan, India, Saudi Arabia, Turkey and many European countries living on campus.
  • MBA program provides an experimental course on Global Social Entrepreneurship involving and assisting local social enterprises with a humanitarian mission.

A Tradition of Service

  • "Consulting to Small Business" program gives our MBA students the opportunity to serve as consultants to local business owners in need of guidance.
  • California Institute of Finance's Break Free program provides financial literacy workshops to underserved community members online with a sliding scale fee structure.
  • MBA Financial Planning students and alumni provide free financial planning at local clinics.
  • Participation in research activities and board governance for the Economic Development Collaborative of Ventura County (EDC-VC).
  • Partnerships with the Ventura County Economic Development Association (VCEDA) in educating and advocating for the business community.
  • Faculty participation in the Center for Non-Profit Leadership, and board governance of the Ventura County Community Foundation (VCCF) and the Ventura County Civic Alliance (VCCA).
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