Fisher College of Business

This article is about the business school in Columbus. For the private college in Boston, see Fisher College.

Max M. Fisher College of Business

Type	Public business school
Established	March 7, 1916
Parent institution	Ohio State University
Accreditation	AACSB
Endowment	$120 million USD
Dean	Trevor Brown (interim)
Location	Columbus , Ohio , United States
Campus	Urban
Nickname	Fisher
Website	fisher.osu.edu

The Max M. Fisher College of Business is the business school of Ohio State University, a public research university in Columbus, Ohio. Fisher's campus is located on the northern part of the university within a partially enclosed business campus adjacent to St. John Arena. It is composed of brick buildings loosely arranged in a quadrangle. The 370,000-square-foot (34,000 m²) complex is the largest multi-building project ever undertaken by the university. Fisher is one of the founding members of the AACSB.

Established in 1916 as the College of Commerce and Journalism, the college was renamed in 1993 for Max M. Fisher, a 1930 Ohio State graduate who led efforts to provide a $20 million gift to the college. It has nearly 83,000 living alumni.

Location & environment

The Max M. Fisher College of Business is located in Columbus, Ohio, the largest city in Ohio and the 14th largest city in the United States with an estimated 2018 population of 892,553. The greater Columbus metropolitan area has a population of 2,041,520 as of 2016 and represents close to 100 nationalities. Columbus is located close to the geographic center of the state and is the second largest city in the Midwest.

Academics

Business School International Rankings
U.S. MBA Ranking
Bloomberg (2024)	52
U.S. News & World Report (2024)	31
Global MBA Ranking
QS (2025)	84
Financial Times (2024)	84

Fisher's MBA curriculum allows students to customize their focus. After learning the core functions of business, students can select from elective courses to refine their knowledge. Another element of the curriculum is the Professional Leadership & Development program consisting of seminars, workshops, and training sessions.

International study and work opportunities are offered around the world to complement the MBA program—including study abroad, global applied projects, internship opportunities, and job placement.

Faculty

Fisher has a student–faculty ratio of 3:1.

Degrees offered

• Bachelor of Science in Business Administration (BSBA)
• Full-time MBA (FTMBA)
• Working Professional MBA (WPMBA)
• Executive MBA (EMBA)
• Master of Business Logistics Engineering (MBLE)
• Master of Accounting (MAcc)
• Master of Human Resource Management (MHRM)
• Specialized Master in Finance (SMF)
• Master of Business Operational Excellence (MBOE)
• PhD in Business Administration; Accounting & MIS; Human Resource Management
• Specialized Master in Business Analytics (SMB-A)
• Master of Supply Chain Management (MSCM)

Admissions

Full-Time MBA Students at Fisher generally have 4–6 years of work experience, are academically strong, and score high on the Graduate Management Admission Test (GMAT). The average GMAT is around 667 with 80% of the class scoring between 640 and 720. The median age of the recently admitted applicants is 27 years old. Approximately one third are from overseas, one in three are women, and one in seven is an underrepresented domestic minority. The Working Professionals class profile closely resembles the full-time profile with students having on average two additional years of professional experience.

Campus plan and architecture

Many quotations can be found etched into Fisher's campus.

The six-building campus (designed by Kallmann, McKinnell & Wood, Cooper, Robertson & Partners with Karlsberger Architecture as Architect of Record) is oriented around its largest building, the signature Fisher Hall, which is the same height as the main university library and on axis with it. This visually links the college to the larger OSU campus. The organization of undergraduate buildings, graduate study, and administration cluster around a traditional campus green that encourages social mixing of different student bodies and faculty. The brick architecture reinterprets the Neo-Classical tradition found throughout OSU. Cooper, Robertson & Partners designed both Fisher Hall and Pfahl Hall, the executive education building. Kallmann, McKinnell & Wood designed Gerlach Hall, Schoenbaum Hall and Mason Hall. RTKL was hired as the hospitality consultant for the Blackwell Inn. Karlsberger completed all design documents and served as construction administrator for the entire complex.

The campus consists of the following buildings and offices:

• Fisher Hall
  • Faculty offices
  • Administrative offices
  • Research and business partnership centers
• Gerlach Hall
  • Graduate business programs
  • Batten investment laboratory
  • Office of career management
• Mason Hall
  • Student computer labs
  • Office of Information Technology Services
  • Rohr Cafe
• Pfahl Hall
  • Executive education programs
  • Conference center
  • 2110 Restaurant
• Schoenbaum Hall
  • Undergraduate business programs
  • Berry auditorium
• The Blackwell Inn and Conference Center
  • 151 Hotel rooms
  • Conference rooms
  • Banquet facilities

The American Accounting Association's Hall of Fame was established at Fisher in 1950 to honor those who in some way distinguished themselves in the field. An international board of accountants nominate and select new members annually to add to the 78 inducted members. Current Ohio State University faculty are prohibited from nomination.

Affiliations

Fisher College of Business has exchange programs and MoUs with other universities, including Atatürk University in Erzerüm, Turkey, Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad, India.

Gallery

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  Fisher Hall
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  Pfahl Hall
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  Courtyard
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  Fisher Flag
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  Fisher Seal

See also

• List of Big Ten business schools
• List of United States business school rankings
• List of business schools in the United States