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The Beedie School of Business is the Faculty of Business Administration at Simon Fraser University in Metro Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Founded in 1965, SFU is currently the largest business school in Western Canada[citation needed]. Beedie School's Executive MBA (EMBA) program, founded in 1968, is claimed to be the first of its kind in Canada. By 1982, the business discipline had grown to sufficient size to become its own distinct faculty at the university, creating the Faculty of Business Administration, and the Bachelor of Business Administration (BBA) degree.
The Beedie School of Business operates on all three Simon Fraser University campuses, with over 3100 undergraduate BBA students in the Vancouver suburbs of Burnaby and Surrey; over 350 MBA and graduate students in the Segal Graduate School of Business in downtown Vancouver; non-credit programs at the director, executive and management levels; and a Ph.D. program. Since 2000, the school has launched the Management of Technology MBA, the Master of Science in Finance program, and a full-time MBA designed for early career, younger graduates with a non-business undergraduate degree. In 2011, the school launched the world's first Executive MBA for the Americas in partnership with graduate business schools at Vanderbilt University (U.S.), Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México (Mexico) and Institute of Management Foundation (Brazil). That same year, it launched Canada's first EMBA for Aboriginal Business and Leadership.
The Beedie School of Business has achieved international accreditation from the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB) and the European Quality Improvement System (EQUIS). The school has also committed to integrating the Principles for Responsible Management Education (PRME). In 2011, the school was ranked among the Top 25 business schools in the world for management research. In a 2012 survey published by the Gustavson School of Business at the University of Victoria and presented to the Canadian Federation of Business School Deans (CFBSD), the Beedie School of Business ranked second nationally based on research productivity in the Financial Times top 40 publications (FT 40 journals). The Beedie School of Business finished first in Western Canada with a score of 1.69, only 0.02 points behind the Rotman School of Management at the University of Toronto.
On February 9, 2011, the school received a donation in the amount of $22 million from alumnus Ryan Beedie and his father Keith, establishing the Beedie School of Business.