BYU Academics
Students on BYU's campus by the HFAC
Brigham Young University’s aims for education include spiritually strengthening, intellectually enlarging, character building, and lifelong learning and service. BYU offers bachelor’s degrees in 186 academic programs, master's degrees in 64, doctorates in 25 and juris doctorates in one. There are courses offered in 10 colleges, in Continuing Education and Graduate Studies and in three general undergraduate areas of study.
The 10 colleges include Business, Education, Engineering and
Technology, Family, Home and Social Sciences, Fine Arts and Communications, Humanities, Law School, Life Sciences, Nursing and Physical and Mathematical Sciences. International Studies, Undergraduate Education and Religious Education are the three general undergraduate areas of study that BYU offers.
BYU is known worldwide for the Marriott School of Management and the J. Reuben Clark Law School.
Tanner Building
The Marriott School became the School of Management in 1975 was named after Marriott Corporation
Tanner Building Atrium
founders J. Willard and Alice S. Marriott in 1988. The school is located in the N. Eldon Tanner Building which was recently expanded in 2008. There are approximately 2,200 undergraduate students and nearly 1,000 graduate students enrolled. This School of Management is recognized around the world as one of the best places to hire graduates with high ethical standards. The Marriott School of Management has 143 full-time faculty and 87 adjuncts, part-time or visiting faculty. Over 85 percent of the full-time faculty members have PhDs.
Awards
The Accounting program was ranked 4th by the U.S. News & World Report in 2008. They also ranked BYU’s Business Management Program as 35th and the International Business program as 19th.
In 2008 Tech Republic ranked BYU’s Information Systems program in the Top 10.
Entrepreneur, in 2009, ranked the Entrepreneurship program as 18th.
Want to learn business? The Marriott School of Management is the place to learn the nitty-gritty of becoming a successful business man or woman.
J. Reuben Clark Law School
The BYU Law School is located in the J. Reuben Clark Law Building. It was founded in 1973 and its accreditation is by the American Bar Association and the Association of American Law Schools. It provides degrees in Juris doctor, joint degrees and LLM in comparative law for foreign attorneys.
The BYU Law School has an internationally renowned faculty and provides small class sizes allowing a unique opportunity for learning to take place. It is also one of the best bargains in regards to tuition compared to other schools in the American legal education system.
There is an on-site library with facilities and computer technology that is cutting edge. There are more than 450,000 volumes or volume equivalents available.
Eighty percent of the enrolled students speak a second language. BYU Law Students are recruited by the nation’s leading law firms and businesses located in places such as Washington, D.C., New York City, Chicago, and Los Angeles. The J. Reuben Clark Law School has alumni that are leaders in government and the public and private sectors. BYU produced 10 United States Supreme Court clerks as well as many federal and state court clerks, judges, professors, and renowned practitioners.