About Us

Bolstered by dedicated faculty and staff members, engaged alumni and supportive industry partners, the Herbert Wertheim College of Business at Florida State University is committed to cultivating critical thinking and advanced leadership skills that companies demand of new hires. A recently announced $65 million philanthropic investment by Dr. Herbert Wertheim renamed the college and provides landmark resources to strengthen faculty excellence, expand student access and power innovative programs, including a new healthcare curriculum incorporating all disciplines. The college – one of the nation’s youngest and largest – is also celebrating the addition of a new home, the newly named Herbert Wertheim Center for Business Excellence, a five-story, $160 million facility designed to inspire learning and collaboration. Drawn to excellence, nearly 10,000 students pursue studies at the college each semester, securing its standing as one of the nation’s top producers of business leaders. Among the college’s high marks, several undergraduate and graduate programs consistently achieve Top 5 and Top 10 status among public universities on rankings lists released by U.S. News & World Report. FSU business faculty members also rank in the nation’s top tier of public schools for their high volume of research, and their findings are making a positive impact on global business practices. They infuse their lessons with this research and the latest industry insights, and the college enhances that education with enrichment opportunities for students outside the classroom. The college also takes pride in its alumni – numbering more than 78,000 worldwide – who make their mark on the global marketplace.

 

 

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  SPRING 2026
Student Enrollment

8,673


Undergraduates - 7,685

Master’s - 949

Ph.D. - 39

Prepared through innovative curriculum and instruction, our students are ready to make a difference in all aspects of business, in all corners of the world. They are passionate about exceeding the boundaries of the status quo to positively impact the future of business.


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School

5

Departments

7

Research Centers & Institutes

16

Academic Degrees


Program Rankings

No. 2

Dr. William T. Hold/The Alliance's Program in Risk Management and Insurance

All Schools - U.S. News & World Report's 2026 Undergraduate Business Programs in Insurance

No. 6

Real Estate Program

Public Schools - U.S. News & World Report's 2026 Undergraduate Business Programs in Real Estate

No. 8

MBA Real Estate Specialty

Public Schools - U.S. News & World Report's 2026 Best Graduate Schools

No. 14

Online Master's in Management Information Systems (MS-MIS)

Public Schools - U.S. News & World Report's 2026 Best Online Graduate Business Programs

No. 14

Online Master's in Risk Management and Insurance (MS-RMI)

Public Schools - U.S. News & World Report's 2026 Best Online Graduate Business Programs

No. 14

Online MBA Program for Veterans

Public Schools - U.S. News & World Report's 2026 Best Online MBA Programs

No. 17

Online MBA Program

Public Schools - U.S. News & World Report's 2026 Best Online MBA Programs

No. 18

Marketing Program

Public Schools - U.S. News & World Report's 2026 Best Undergraduate Programs in Marketing

No. 20

Accounting Program

Public Schools - U.S. News & World Report's 2026 Best Undergraduate Programs in Accounting

No. 31

Business School

Public Schools - U.S. News & World Report's 2026 Best Colleges

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Faculty Rankings

Top 10

Business Faculty

among all Carnegie-classified business schools nationwide – public or private –  for percentage of faculty with published work cited by others; Top 15 for percentage of published faculty and the amount of overall research activity, based on the Scholarly Research Index.

  • 324+ Faculty publications over the last four years
  • 6,447+ Faculty citations over the last five years
  • 33+ Editorial appointments

Academic Analytics release, Fall 2025

No. 3

Real Estate Faculty

among real estate scholars with the most publications in top three core real estate journals over the past five years (2020-2024)
Real Estate Academic Leadership, or REAL, Rankings, March 2025

No. 3

Accounting Faculty

among U.S. public universities — No. 5 worldwide — for the amount of archival audit research published in top-tier journals over the last 12 years; No. 6 among U.S. public universities over the last 35 years.
2025 BYU Accounting Rankings for Universities (released February 2026)

No. 4

RMI Faculty

most prolific among all schools nationally, No. 6 globally, for published works in leading RMI journals, according to the latest four-year review, covering 2021-2025
University of Nebraska-Lincoln Global Research Ranks of Actuarial Science and Risk Management and Insurance, March 2026

No. 5

Tingyu Zhou

among real estate scholars with the most publications in top three core real estate journals over the past five years (2020-2024)
Real Estate Academic Leadership, or REAL, Rankings, March 2025

No. 8

Nate Newton

among accounting faculty worldwide for the amount of archival audit research published in top-tier and premier journals over the past six years.
2025 BYU Accounting Rankings for Universities (released February 2026)

No. 11

Chongyu Wang

among real estate scholars with the most publications in top three core real estate journals over the past five years (2020-2024)
Real Estate Academic Leadership, or REAL, Rankings, March 2025


Alumni

Our alumni network extends around the world and into almost every industry, where they form an active and powerful global community that fosters lifelong professional and personal connections.

  Alumni News  

 
78,000+


Accreditation

The Herbert Wertheim College of Business is accredited by the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB International). AACSB accreditation is the most widely sought benchmark of quality worldwide. Fewer than 5 percent of business schools worldwide achieve this accreditation. The college’s Accounting program also secured an additional specialized AACSB accreditation held by only 186 institutions worldwide.


College Fast Facts

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