School of Business

With a 58 percent increase in enrollment since 2015, the new School of Business building responds to tremendous campus growth particularly within the business school. Thru a design-build competition, the Moore Ruble Yudell/ McCarthy team was selected with a forward-looking design that is uniquely of its place and welcoming to an increasingly diverse student population.

The project is a gateway and the first new building in the South Campus District. Strong indoor-outdoor connections harmonize the project to its climate, site, district, and greater campus. While respectful of its context and history, the building projects boldly into the future and supports innovation in research and teaching.

The project centralizes School of Business classes and activities, which had been distributed across the campus. The new building includes collaborative classrooms; a 350-seat auditorium; computer lab; recording studio; multi-use spaces and café; open collab areas; group study rooms, graduate, faculty and staff lounges; an executive meeting room, and faculty and administrative offices. State-of-the-art technology for hybrid learning allows lecturers to deliver multi-media presentations that can be recorded and streamed. Building and site offer a spectrum of indoor and outdoor gathering spaces and provide opportunities for informal serendipitous encounters—critical for creativity and collaboration.