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business school

business school

38 2.8
A school that teaches people how to run or manage companies, often to get an MBA
  • noun
  • /ˈbɪznəs skuːl/
translation icon : escuela de negocios
  • So I applied to Harvard Business School and got accepted.
  • a top business school
  • business school graduates
  • business school students

This idea that women go to Business School to get married.

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Examples

  • I just got into business school.

  • You see, the first thing you learn in business school is that you need to market yourself before the ads do it for you.

  • That is not what business schools are about, right?

  • I had a friend from Business School, super smart guy.

  • Where did you go to business school?

  • We studied it in business school.

  • In business school, you were a legend.

  • No one questions that medical schools should develop excellent doctors or that business schools should develop highly capable executives and entrepreneurs.

    Academic text (2017)
  • Law schools should collaborate with business schools to create case-based programs.

    Academic text (2017)
  • Where did you go to business school?

Synonyms

graduate school
vsbusiness school
  • US
52 3.6

A part of a university that offers master's and PhD degrees

concentrates specifically on business and management graduate and professional programmes
business college
vsbusiness school
1 2.8

A college that teaches practical office skills for business, like typing and accounting

is more academically focused and offers higher level management and graduate programmes

How Advanced

MBA
60 3.7
business school
38 2.8

Surface Forms

Morphology

business + school

The meaning 'a school that offers courses in business' is directly and compositionally derivable from 'business' (commercial activity) + 'school' (educational institution). This noun–noun combination is a regular, cross-linguistically common pattern, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents will readily infer the MWE's meaning.

Etymology

The phrase business school literally means a school for business; it grew from places that offered special classes to teach how to run shops, handle money and manage people. That's why business school today means 'a place where you study business and management'.