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Stanford Graduate School of Business

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The Stanford Graduate School of Business (GSB), established in 1925, offers the two-year MBA program with about 825 students (about 400 per intake); a one-year, mid-career MS in management program with 91 students; the PhD program with about 130 students in residence (about 30 per intake); the six-week residential Stanford Executive Program for senior executives; some 60 Executive Education courses; Stanford Ignite, a part-time program in innovation and entrepreneurship; and joint MBA degrees with law, electrical engineering, computer science, environment and resources, public policy and education. There are about 32,000 GSB alumni worldwide. The 124 faculty members include three Nobel laureates and five recipients of the John Bates Clark medal .

Students applying to the MBA or PhD programs at the Graduate School of Business are eligible to apply to Knight-Hennessy Scholars. The Round 1 application deadline for the MBA Program is typically in September. The deadline for PhD applications is typically early December.