School History

A long history of excellence

  • 1964
    Arthur D. Little Inc., the world's oldest management consulting firm, establishes the Management Education Institute. Modeled after top business programs, the school attracts some of the world's most successful business leaders.
  • 1965
    Swedish entrepreneur Bertil Hult founds EF Education, which has become the world's largest privately-held education organization, with 26,000 teachers and staff, and offices spanning 50 different countries.
  • 1976
    The business school is officially accredited by the New England Association of Schools and Colleges (NEASC), the governing accreditation body of the region's top business programs.
  • 1998
    Forbes identifies our Action Learning Program as "highly distinctive", ranking it with the programs of the top five MBA programs in the United States.
  • 1999
    The MBA Career Guide names Hult's program one of the top 30 international graduate business programs in the United States.
  • 2002
    The Economist Intelligence Unit ranks the school the third best business school in Massachusetts, after Harvard Business School and The Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
  • 2003
    The School is renamed the Hult International Business School, honoring benefactor Bertil Hult's personal vision and commitment to educating international business leaders. The school moves to its own dedicated campus near downtown Boston.
  • 2005
    Hult's one-year MBA earns the accreditation of the Association of MBAs (AMBA), making Hult the first-ever business school in the United States to be recognized by this prestigious international accrediting body.
  • 2007
    Hult launches an elective module at its Shanghai satellite campus as a key component of the Hult international MBA experience.
  • 2008
    Hult will launch the first American MBA program in Dubai.