USF Muma College of Business launches school of management

The University of South Florida’s Muma College of Business is launching a new school this fall. The school of management will be led by interim director Ed Tomlinson, a management professor.

“A distinct school of management will allow us to capitalize on our world-class faculty and bring together management scholars from various management disciplines,” Tomlinson says in a statement. “The new school’s courses of study are designed to optimize student career success so that when they graduate, [students] have a great job to land in, and they’re prepared for these challenges and rigors as they embark upon their career.”

The school of management will house USF’s undergraduate programs in management, global business and entrepreneurship; master’s programs in management and entrepreneurship; and USF’s Nault Center for Entrepreneurship. In the future, officials say the school will grow its undergraduate and graduate programs in human resource management.

Creating the school of management comes in response to demand, according to a statement from USF, which says management majors have jumped 44% since 2020.

“Elevating our management discipline into a distinct school makes perfect sense,” David Blackwell, the Lynn Pippenger Dean at the Muma College of Business, says in a statement. “It leverages our high-performing management faculty and will grow industry partnerships, enable executive education and establish an identity with the management field among our students, faculty and alumni. It will also help students feel like they are part of something bigger.”

The school of management will be the business college’s seventh school; others specialize in accountancy, finance, hospitality and sport management, risk management, marketing and information systems.