At Duquesne, you’ll learn to make a difference in and for the world—driven by ethical
standards, moral values and a commitment to the greater good. And you’ll gain a sense
of purpose that helps you take the lessons that you have learned in the classroom
and apply them in the real world.
Coming Fall 2025! Financial Planning Track
Launching in Fall 2025, the Financial Planning track will be an option for finance majors interested in helping people achieve their financial goals. Financial Planning will
also be available to all other business majors and non-business students as either
a certificate or a minor. Students will be well-equipped to meet rising workforce
demands for professional financial advisors while establishing themselves in a relevant,
lucrative, and rewarding career.
News Release
In response to the increasing demand for qualified financial planning advisors,
we are excited to introduce a new Financial Planning Track, thanks to a generous gift
from Schwab Advisor Services in partnership with the Charles Schwab Foundation.
We prepare students so they can make a profound difference in their careers and in
the world. To accomplish that, we constantly strive to ensure that our programs, our
environment, and our culture enable and support the work we do in difference-making. When you choose to study business at Duquesne, you’re choosing to earn a degree
from a trusted, innovative leader.
Discover Your Path to Success in Business
Considering possible majors? Finding a way to combine interests? That’s good! Many
students begin college before they decide on a major, and many students change their
major at some point in their academic journey.
Our Discover students have the opportunity to see how our majors operate together
in a corporate setting, before they choose their major.
Develop professional acuity and improve your career prospects with a graduate business
degree or certificate from Â鶹ֱ²¥. Our top-ranked, AACSB-accredited business
master's programs prepare you-whatever your current professional or academic background-for
lifelong success.
Provide Transformative Education in a Spiritan Tradition.
We develop ethical business professionals who understand the global marketplace and
serve others by leading with integrity to transform their communities, organizations,
and society. Toward this end, we engage our students, alumni, and business partners
with passionate faculty members who create impactful scholarship and innovative educational
experiences that connect theory to practice.
Be a Premier Business School with Distinctive Excellence.
We aspire to be recognized as a global leader in business education for impactful
scholarship and engaging, distinctive programs and experiences that transform students'
lives in a Catholic, Spiritan tradition and provide innovative solutions for communities,
organizations, and the world.
Principles that Drive Us Forward.
Respect for the world Our business perspective is shaped by the Spiritan emphasis on respect for the world
and the pursuit of good environmental stewardship and social justice in doing so.
That perspective also recognizes the fundamental value and dignity of all individuals
and includes our commitment to creating an inclusive culture of respect, fairness
and equality.
Ethics and integrity Ethics and integrity are essential characteristics of high-performing organizations
over the long term. We want our faculty, staff and students to be guided by the highest
principles of honesty, fairness, accountability, transparency, and moral courage.
Student-centered Everything we do is about putting students first. We have a relentless focus on giving
students high quality learning and developmental opportunities that shape their ability
to make a difference. Put simply, we are in the business of difference making for
students.
Scholarship that matters We embrace impactful scholarship whether it involves discipline-based research that
creates new knowledge, applied research that shapes business practice, or pedagogical
research that helps improve teaching effectiveness.
Practical wisdom Business education is no longer just about knowledge acquisition. Instead, students
need transformational experiences that show employers and others what they can do
with knowledge. Instilling practical wisdom is what helps turn students into difference
makers.
Change and innovation Business today is rapidly changing and our competitors aren't standing still. We embrace
change and monitor trends in business education to measure ourselves against external
benchmarks as well as by who our students become with the aim of creating innovative
programs.
Collaborative boundary-spanning Our students need to understand and embrace cultural differences since today's business
environment is increasingly and unmistakably global. Indeed, today's work world is
filled with cross-functional teams and fluid boundaries across disciplines, organizations,
communities, and cultures.
We have earned these distinctions based upon our legacy of producing ethical leaders,
providing innovative curricula, attracting the highest caliber of students and retaining
exceptional faculty revered for their scholarly excellence and practical expertise.
Poets and Quants for Undergrads ranks Â鶹ֱ²¥ No. 68 on the Best Business
Schools 2024. The ranking highlights three core indicators of success: Admissions
Standards, Academic Experience and Employment Outcomes.
#1Corporate Knights
Corporate Knights, a Canadian publication devoted to business sustainability, ranks
the Palumbo-Donahue School of Business One-Year MBA Program #1 in the U.S. and #2
in the world.
Princeton Review Best Business School
The Princeton Review ranks the Palumbo-Donahue School of Business as one of the Best
Business Schools in 2024 for its MBA programs.
Department Chair, Accounting, Information Systems and Technology, & Supply Chain Management;
Professor of Information Systems and Technology, 824 Rockwell Hall, (412) 396-6245
Albert P. Viragh Professor in Business Ethics; Executive Director, Albert P. Viragh
Institute for Ethics in Business; Editor-in-Chief, Business and Society Review; Professor
of Management and Business Ethics, 918 Rockwell Hall, (412) 396-1092
Executive Director of the Albert P. Viragh Institute for Ethics in Business; Editor-in-Chief of the Business and Society Review; Albert Paul Viragh Professor in Business Ethics