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The Many Varieties of Pitt Business Alumni
Pitt has many different alumni, but all of our alumni have a connection to Pitt Business. Today our alumni number more than 23,500. Some graduated with an undergraduate or graduate degree prior to and including 1969 and are often referred to as our School of Business Administration or BBA graduates. The BBA graduates also include those individuals who earned an MBA or a master's degree in retail training from the School of Business Administration. Undergraduate education was discontinued in 1969 but resumed under the auspices of the College of Business Administration (CBA) in 1999; undergraduate business alumni who have graduated since1999 are referred to as CBA alumni. And those alumni who earned the MBA since 1970 are referred to as graduates of the Joseph M. Katz Graduate School of Business (KGSB), though the Graduate School of Business was not renamed until 1996, owing to a generous donation from Joseph M. Katz, a friend of the University and entrepreneur. Within the Katz School, there are alumni who graduated from the accelerated 15-month Executive MBA (EMBA) program and several dual master's degree programs as well as the doctoral program (PhD).
With these many alumni groups, it has become necessary to find a uniform method of classification for University-wide publications. Beginning in fiscal year 2010, all business alumni will be coded BUS, followed by their graduation year. Graduate degrees will be denoted by a 'G' after the graduation year, for example, John Smith (BUS '76G). We will continue to use our program acronyms (BBA, CBA, MBA, EMBA, PhD, etc.) in Pitt Business publications. This change aligns with the alumni classifications used by most other schools and colleges across the University.