About FOX
Fox School of Business and Management @ Temple University
The Richard J. Fox School of Business and Management is the business school of Temple University. Located in Philadelphia, the Fox School offers several Master of Business Administration programs (full-time MBA, part-time MBA, international MBA, executive MBA and online MBA); several other master’s degree programs; and several Ph.D. programs, including in finance, in marketing, ininternational business, in entrepreneurship, in management of information systems, in risk management and insurance, in strategic management ,in sports, and accounting. The school has some 6,500 students, 155 full-time faculty, and over 42,000 graduates, of which about two-thirds live and work in the Philadelphia metropolitan area. It is the largest business school in the Philadelphia region and one of the largest in the world. The current dean of the school is Dr. M. Moshe Porat.
Established in 1918, it was named in honor of Richard J. Fox in 1999. The MBA program began in 1942. The school was accredited by the International Association for Management Education (now the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business) in 1973. The Ph.D in Economics program was established in 1976.
Fox is also recognized as one of a top business school in the US news.
Below are the 10 schools that reported the highest job placement rates for full-time M.B.A. graduates three months after graduation:
| Business school (name) (state) | Full-time students employed three months after graduating | U.S. News b-school rank |
|---|---|---|
| Tulane University (Freeman) (LA) | 98.1% | 43 |
| Ohio State University (Fisher) | 97.6% | 25 |
| Iowa State University | 96.7% | 64 |
| Temple University (Fox) (PA) | 95.3% | 52 |
| Georgia Institute of Technology | 95.1% | 32 |
| Northeastern University (MA) | 95.1% | 56 |
| Emory University (Goizueta) (GA) | 94.0% | 19 |
| Northwestern University (Kellogg) (IL) | 93.8% | 4 |
| Washington University in St. Louis (Olin) | 93.8% | 22 |
| Dartmouth College (Tuck) (NH) | 93.6% | 9 |