The Merage School

1.0 HISTORY

The Merage School

For more than 50 years, The Paul Merage School of Business has been developing agile leaders who can anticipate disruption and capitalize on and create new opportunities in the marketplace. Founding Dean Richard C. Snyder opened the doors to our first students and put the Graduate School of Administration on a path toward becoming a globally preeminent business school. At that time, UC Irvine earned its reputation for innovation by introducing the study of Information and Computer Science to the world. In the 1990’s, the business school faculty helped students understand IT investment decisions to drive efficiencies across the enterprise. In 2005, the School was formally named after Paul Merage, reshaping our earlier traditions of innovation and entrepreneurship toward leadership for a digitally driven world. Today, we continue to share our expertise in developing executives able to leverage exponential advances in technology and data analytics to lead powerful strategies for the global economy.

We have highlighted some of the more notable moments in the School’s history on our website at merage.uci.edu/facts-figures.

Paul Merage is a philanthropist, an innovative and successful entrepreneur, and a champion of education whose $30 million gift to UC Irvine’s business school was the most significant donation in the University’s history at the time.