Quinn School of Business

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Quinn School of Business (An Scoil Ghnó, UCD) is one of two Schools of Business at University College Dublin (the other is the Michael Smurfit School of Business).

Quinn School of Business is one of only 20 university facilities worldwide with the "Triple Crown" of accreditation (EQUIS, AACSB and AMBA) and the only school in Ireland with all three awards.^{[citation needed]} The Quinn School of Business, or 'Quinn' as it is more commonly known to students, facilitates undergraduates, while The Smurfit School of Business caters for post-graduates.^[1]

1 History
2 Degrees
3 References
4 External links

[edit] History

The school is located in a €24million three-story building on the main UCD campus at Belfield, and is named after Lochlann Quinn, the chairman of Allied Irish Bank, who donated €5 million to the project. He graduated from UCD with a BComm in 1962. Other donors included Philip Berber of CyberCorp, Bank of Ireland, AIB, Irish Life & Permanent, Accenture and Ernst & Young.^[2]

When it opened in 2002, it claimed the only business school in Europe with a specific focus on technology and e-learning. All students are required to own specially-configure wireless laptops, with teaching structured around the use of the wireless network.^[2]

[edit] Degrees

Graduates are produced in fields such as Commerce, Business and Law (through the course Business and Legal Studies), Economics and Finance, and International Commerce, which includes either French, Spanish, German, Italian, or Chinese.^{[citation needed]}