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Dartmouth College in USA offer the first institution conferring advanced degrees (masters) in the commercial sciences, specifically, a Master of Science in Commerce degree, the forebearer of the modern MBA degree.
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In 1908, the Graduate School of Business Administration (GSBA) at Harvard University was established; it offered the world's first MBA program,[2] with a faculty of 15 plus 33 regular students and 47 special students.
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The University of Chicago Booth School of Business first offered working professionals the Executive MBA (EMBA) program in 1943,[3] first available in permanent campus in three continents (Chicago, London and Singapore) and this type of program is offered by most business schools today.
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In 1950, the first MBA degrees awarded outside the United States were by the Richard Ivey School of Business at The University of Western Ontario in Canada
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In 1957, INSEAD (French name "INStitut Européen d'ADministration des Affaires", or European Institute of Business Administration) became the first European university offering the MBA degree
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In 1991, IEDC-Bled School of Management became the first school in the ex-socialist block of the Central and Eastern to offer an MBA degree.
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In 2007, ESCEM became the first French Business school to offer their own distance or online MBA