Coronavirus is spreading fast — and business schools are working just as fast to address the public health crisis that has claimed thousands of lives globally and dozens, so far, in the United States. Poets&Quants has compiled a list of the known measures at the top 50 U.S. B-schools, from moving in-person classes online to canceling all sanctioned international travel, including links to each school’s up-to-date statements. Find out what your school, or your target school, has done so far to mitigate the crisis. And see the links to our coverage of the coronavirus COVID-19 and its impact on graduate business education at the bottom of the page.
Last updated: Thursday, March 19 at 1:45 p.m. Pacific Time
P&Q MBA Rank | School Name | Timeline | Notes | Location |
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1 | Stanford Graduate School of Business | March 6 – Further notice | All courses moved online | Palo Alto, California |
2 | Chicago Booth School of Business | March 10 – April 15 & Further notice | All spring quarter classes moved online, study abroad programs canceled, events postponed till after April 15, and international and domestic travel suspended to April 15 | Chicago, Illinois |
3 | Harvard Business School | March 23 – Further notice | All courses moved online, events of 25+ and travel suspended | Boston, Massachusetts |
4 | Wharton at University of Pennsylvania | March 10 – April 17 | Prohibiting university travel and events of 100+, prepping for potential move to online classes; launch of new 6-week course | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania |
5 | Northwestern Kellogg School of Management | March 10 – April 15 | Extending spring break by one week, moving classes online for three weeks after that, study abroad and events with 25+ canceled | Evanston, Illinois |
6 | MIT Sloan School of Management | March 16 – End of semester | Classes canceled week of March 16 then moving online for the rest of semester, suspending all travel and events | Boston, Massachusetts |
7 | Columbia Business School | March 11 – Further notice | Classes moved online, travel and events of 25+ canceled or restricted | New York City, New York |
8 | UC Berkeley Haas School of Business | March 10 – March 30 | Classes moved online, events of 150+ canceled or postponed | Berkeley, California |
9 | Dartmouth Tuck School of Business | March 10 – April 17 | Classes move online beginning March 23 for at least two weeks, events of 100+ canceled, postponed, or made virtual, travel restricted | Hanover, New Hampshire |
10 | Yale School of Management | March 10 – April 5 | Classes moved online, limit travel and cancel or postpone events through April 15 | New Haven, Connecticut |
11 | Virginia Darden School of Business | March 8 – Further notice | International travel limited | Charlottesville, Virginia |
12 | Michigan Ross School of Business | March 16 – April 21 | Classes moved online beginning March 16 to April 21, events of 100+ canceled, postponed, or move virtually, study abroad and international travel canceled or postponed through at least April 21 | Ann Arbor, Michigan |
13 | Cornell SC Johnson School of Management | March 10 – End of semester | Classes transitioning to be fully online by April 6, events of 100+ canceled or postponed, discouraging domestic, international travel | Ithaca, New York |
14 | Duke Fuqua Business School | March 10 – Further notice | Classes canceled and then online beginning March 23, domestic and international travel prohibited, events of 50+ canceled for rest of semester | Durham, North Carolina |
15 | UC Los Angeles Anderson School of Management | March 11 – April 10 | Classes moved online, events of 100+ canceled or postponed, travel restricted | Los Angeles, California |
16 | New York University Stern School of Business | March 9 – March 27 | Classes moved online, large events discouraged, non-essential travel canceled | New York City, New York |
17 | Carnegie Mellon Tepper School of Business | March 10 – Further notice | Classes moved online, events canceled, postponed, or virtual, international travel suspeneded for all campuses | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania |
18 | UT Austin McCombs School of Business | March 10 – Further notice | Restricted international travel | Austin, Texas |
19 | Southern California Marshall School of Business | March 11 – March 29 | Classes moved online, all campus events canceled, all university-related travel canceled | Los Angeles, California |
20 | North Carolina Kenan-Flagler Business School | March 11 – Further notice | Domestic, international travel restricted | Chapel Hill, North Carolina |
21 | Washington Foster School of Business | March 9 – March 30 | Classes moved online, travel restricted through April 3 | Seattle, Washington |
22 | Emory Goizueta Business School | March 6 – Further notice | Restricted international travel | Atlanta, Georgia |
23 | Indiana Kelley Business School | March 10 – April 6 | Classes moved online, international and domestic travel prohibited, no new events allowed and those scheduled are strongly recommended to cancel or postpone | Bloomington, Indiana |
24 | Georgetown McDonough School of Business | March 16 – Further notice | Classes moved online, all travel suspended, events canceled, postponed, or moved virtual | Washington, D.C. |
25 | Rice Jones Graduate School of Management | March 9 – 23 | Classes canceled and potentially moved online, all events and international travel prohibited through April 30 | Houston, Texas |
26 | Georgia Tech Scheller College of Business | March 9 – Further notice | International travel limited | Atlanta, Georgia |
27 | Notre Dame Mendoza School of Business | March 23 – April 13 | Classes moved online, university-imbursed travel is prohibited, events encouraged to cancel or postpone | Notre Dame, Indiana |
28 | Vanderbilt Owen Graduate School of Management | March 9 – March 30 | Classes canceled then moved online, international travel and events suspended through April 30 | Nashville, Tennessee |
29 | Washington University in St. Louis Olin Business School | March 9 – April 30 | International and domestic travel suspended | St. Louis, Missouri |
30 | Brigham Young Marriott School of Business | March 9 – Further notice | International travel limited | Provo, Utah |
31 | Pennsylvania State Smeal College of Business | March 16 – April 3 | Classes moved online, events with 10+ attendees postponed, canceled, or held virtually, domestic and international travel suspended | State College, Pennsylvania |
32 | University of Minnesota Carlson School of Management | March 16 – April 30 | Classes canceled March 16-17 and then move online March 18 to at least April 1, International and domestic travel suspended | Minneapolis, Minnesota |
33 | Michigan State Broad College of Business | March 11 – April 20 | Classes moved online, domestic and international travel suspended, large events postponed | East Lansing, Michigan |
34 | Arizona State W. P. Carey School of Business | March 6 – Further notice | International travel limited | Tempe, Arizona |
35 | Wisconsin School of Business | March 23 – April 10 | Classes moved online, university-imbursed travel is prohibited, events larger than 50+ also canceled | Madison, Wisconsin |
36 | Ohio State Fisher College of Business | March 9 – March 30 | Classes moved online, no new events scheduled, international travel suspended, and domestic travel limited till April 20 | Columbus, Ohio |
37 | University of Rochester Simon Business School | March 16 – Further notice | Classes moved online, all student activities are virtual, and international and domestic travel are suspended | Rochester, New York |
38 | UC Irvine Merage School of Business | March 11 – Further notice | Classes moved online | Irvine, California |
39 | Pittsburgh Katz Graduate School of Business | March 16 | Spring break extended one week, classes move online March 23, all spring study abroad canceled | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania |
40 | Southern Methodist Cox School of Business | March 10 | Study abroad, other university-sanctioned international travel is canceled until further notice | Dallas, Texas |
41 | Florida Hough Graduate School of Business | March 16 – Further notice | Classes moved online, students and faculty advised not to travel | Gainesville, Florida |
42 | Boston University Questrom School of Business | March 16 – April 13 | Classes moved online, all events and travel suspended | Boston, Massachusetts |
43 | Maryland Smith School of Business | March 23 – April 10 | Classes canceled and then moved online, all university travel suspended, events are strongly discouraged | College Park, Maryland |
44 | Texas-Dallas Jindal School of Management | March 10 | International travel limited | Richardson, Texas |
45 | Texas A&M Mays College of Business | March 10 – March 18 | Classes canceled till March 18 then resume as normal | College Station, Texas |
46 | Georgia Terry College of Business | March 16 – March 29 | Classes canceled | Athens, Georgia |
47 | UC Davis Graduate School of Business | March 12 – March 31 | Final exams moved online, events of 150+ canceled or postponed, international travel restrictions | Davis, California |
48 | Purdue Krannert School of Management | March 16 – May 2 | Classes moved online, domesting and international travel suspended, events of 50+ canceled or postponed | West Lafayette, Indiana |
49 | Tennessee-Knoxville Haslam College of Business | March 10 | All domestic and international travel restricted | Knoxville, Tennessee |
50 | Fordham Gabelli School of Business | March 9 – March 20 | Classes moved online, all campus events canceled, all university-related travel canceled | New York City, New York |
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B-SCHOOLS FEAR DRAMATIC FALL IN INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS DUE TO CORONAVIRUS
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