Gies News Articles
January 05, 2023
Gies iMBA named MBA Program of the Year by Poets&Quants
The fully online MBA from Gies College of Business has earned the coveted distinction of 2022 MBA Program of the Year by Poets&Quants. Gies’ MBA – known as the iMBA – is a full 72-credit-hour MBA offered completely online and at a price point that is almost unheard of anywhere else in the world.
Oct 27
Evans charting a new course via the iMSA
Margaret Evans comes to Gies as an instructor in the Department of Accountancy after graduating from the iMSA program in 2019. Margaret is assisting with ACCY 501 & ACCY 502 in the iMSA program and teaching ACCY 501 for MSF students.
Oct 13
Gies partners with Google to offer Financial Analysis specialization
Gies Business announced it will offer a new educational program, "Financial Analysis - Skills for Success", to complement Google’s Career Certificate in Data Analytics.
Apr 21
Gies launches fully online, stackable graduate certificates
Furthering its longstanding commitment to break down barriers to business education, Gies College of Business is launching a pair of fully online, credit-bearing graduate certificates, the first ever offered by the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.
Mar 07
Gies builds iBlock, leading blockchain revolution in higher education
Gies College of Business is solidifying its place at the forefront of the blockchain revolution with the creation of its own blockchain, to be used for both teaching and research.
Jan 13
Hecht charts new ways to engage learners with micro-credentials
Professor Gary Hecht oversees the College’s growing offering of certificates and badges – sometimes called micro-credentials – that can be earned in as little as two weeks or stretched out to a few months.
Dec 03
Why our MBA Program doesn’t require the GMAT
We’re committed to democratizing higher education, and we want to break down barriers instead of building them. The iMBA program, and the students within it, have thrived without a GMAT mandate.
Aug 25
Four “must ask” questions before starting an online MBA program
New online MBA programs are popping up seemingly every day, thanks to technological advancements and the unprecedented flexibility they offer. But not all online programs are created equal. So Gies' Chief Learning Officer Tawnya Means gave us four questions you should be asking before you pick an online program.
Jul 27
How to apply online teaching insights to the emerging hybrid workplace
As the world struggles with whether – or how – to shift to a hybrid workplace, we asked Gies College of Business Professor Fataneh Taghaboni-Dutta to share her advice on how to make the most out of online engagement and collaboration.
Jan 28
iMBA marks 5-year anniversary, posts exponential growth, diversity
In 2016, it was a disruptive, unproven educational model. Today, the iMBA program at Gies College of Business celebrates its fifth anniversary as an undisputed leader in high-quality online graduate business education at an affordable price.
Dec 22
Engagement is key for Gies professor Hayden Noel
For the past four years, Noel has taught marketing courses for Gies’ online MBA program – called the iMBA. He had never taught online previously, and but now he'll be the first to say online education is here to stay, and its impact is real and enduring.
Dec 15
Rindfleisch makes online digital marketing course accessible, entertaining to diverse global audience
Nearly half a million learners have enrolled in Aric Rindfleisch's “Marketing in a Digital World”, making it the College’s and University’s most popular online course and the No. 1 marketing course in the world.
Dec 10
Laney invited to join World Economic Forum’s Data for Common Purpose Initiative
Based on his groundbreaking work on infonomics, which includes models for measuring data's potential and realized benefits that today are used by organizations around the world, Gies professor Doug Laney will be leading DCPI's data valuation workstream.
Aug 13
Gies iMBA named #1 business school innovation of last decade
Poets&Quants ranked the Gies Business iMBA as the world’s #1 biggest business school innovation of the decade. Designed from the ground up and launched in 2016, the iMBA has grown to nearly 3,000 students while maintaining a 98% satisfaction rate.
Jul 21
Quality, flexibility, affordability fuel astounding iMBA growth
More than 2,500 students have applied to join the iMBA at the University of Illinois’ Gies College of Business since the start of 2020, a 35 percent increase over 2019.