UNC Kenan–Flagler Business School


The UNC Kenan–Flagler Business School is the business school of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, a public university in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. Founded in 1919, the school was renamed to its current name in 1991 in honor of Mary Lily Kenan and her husband, Henry Flagler.
The school offers programs for granting a bachelor of science in business administration, a master of business administration, an executive MBA, a master of accounting, a doctor of philosophy, a business certificate, and executive education programs. It is accredited by the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business.
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History

The school was established in 1919 as the Department of Commerce of the College of Arts of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
In 1991, Frank Kenan continued his family’s legacy of supporting UNC by giving $10 million toward a new Business School building. The university changed its business school's name to Kenan–Flagler Business School in honor of Mary Lily Kenan and her husband, Henry Morrison Flagler.
On June 13, 2023, chancellor Kevin M. Guskiewicz appointed Mary Margaret Frank as the dean of the UNC Kenan-Flagler Business School, effective August 15, 2023.

Rankings

MBA Full-time Program Rankings
  • U.S. News & World Report - 2025
  • *6th in undergraduate business
  • *28th in full-time MBA programs
  • Poets&Quants - 2026
  • *21st in full-time MBA programsBeyond Grey Pinstripes - 2012
  • *7th in the United StatesPrinceton Review and Entrepreneur - 2015
  • *11th for graduate programs in entrepreneurship
MBA for Executives Programs
MBA@UNC Online
MAC Program
  • Public of Accounting Report: 7th in 2009
Executive Development Financial Times: 9th for custom programsBloomberg BusinessWeek: 14th for executive education

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Alumni