University of Stellenbosch Business School

University of Stellenbosch Business School is the business school of the University of Stellenbosch in Bellville, Western Cape, South Africa.HistoryThe University of Stellenbosch Business School was founded in 1964 with 14 MBA students. Four years later the first DBA degree was conferred. In 1981 the current premises in Bellville has been acquired and five years later the department relocated to the Bellville Park Campus. In 1989 MBA student numbers reached 580. The name of the Department of Business Management and Administration changed to the Graduate School of Business (now the USB) in 1992. In 2003 the first students enrol for the new Master's in Development Finance (MDevFin). The USB received the EQUIS accreditation in 2001 followed by the AMBA accreditation in 2002, and AACSB accreditation in 2012.LocationThe hilltop campus of the USB is situated in Bellville, about halfway between Cape Town's central business district and the town of Stellenbosch – home of the USB's mother institution, Stellenbosch University.Publications and JournalsUSB publishes USB Agenda and Leader's Lab Journal biannually. In addition the USB manages the following journals: South African Journal of Business Management Journal for Studies in Economics and Econometrics (in collaboration with the Bureau for Economic Research) The Investment Analysts Journal (in collaboration with The Investment Analysts Society of Southern Africa and the Graduate School of Business of the University of Cape Town)