Peter T. Paul College of Business and Economics

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As a community, Paul College excites, engages, and empowers students to think critically and globally, apply knowledge analytically, make decisions ethically, and communicate ideas persuasively. Through rigorous academics coupled with real-world, experience-based learning, students build the confidence, knowledge, skills, and persistence they need to lead, forge meaningful lives, and excel in careers. • We provide a small college experience dedicated to teaching excellence while pursuing the rich opportunities and aspirations of a world- class research university. • We foster faculty commitment to producing high quality research that impacts their fields, policy, practice, and society through our dynamic and collegial learning community. • We are an inclusive community that respects and harnesses the power of diverse perspectives, identities, and experiences to enhance learning. • We engage our alumni as passionate supporters of our students and their development. • We partner with businesses and non-profit and governmental organizations in New Hampshire and beyond to share research, knowledge, and skills in order to enrich society and enhance organizational success.

The Peter T. Paul College of Business and Economics, formerly the Whittemore School of Business and Economics, is one of seven colleges within the University of New Hampshire. It holds accreditation from the Association for the Advancement of Collegiate Business Education (AACSB), the most elite business school accreditation, and had its accreditation recently extended in 2024. Most recently it was ranked #58 among undergraduate business programs by Poets & Quants Undergraduate, the only data-driven ranking for undergraduate business schools, and stands as the highest-ranked public business school in New England for academic experience and career outcomes. Paul College is an inclusive community that respects and harnesses the power of diverse perspectives, identities, and experiences to enhance learning. The University of New Hampshire is committed to building and nurturing an environment of inclusive excellence where all students, faculty, and staff can thrive. We are also committed to providing open and inclusive access for all alumni, volunteers, learners, employees, and visitors seeking to participate in our programs and activities. We venture to sustain a campus environment that fosters mutual respect and understanding. We believe diversity, equity, accessibility, and inclusion are foundational values inextricably linked to achieving our core educational mission and embrace the many characteristics of our community members that make them uniquely themselves. Here, you belong, and all are welcome. The University of New Hampshire is an R1 Carnegie classification research institution providing comprehensive, high-quality undergraduate and graduate programs of distinction. UNH is in Durham on a 188-acre campus, 60 miles north of Boston and 8 miles from the Atlantic coast and is convenient to New Hampshire’s lakes and mountains. There is a student enrollment of over 12,000 students, with a full-time faculty of over 600, offering over 300 undergraduate and graduate degree programs. The University actively promotes a dynamic learning environment in which qualified individuals of differing perspectives, life experiences, and cultural backgrounds pursue academic goals with mutual respect and shared inquiry.

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