About Us:

The George H. Atkinson Graduate School of Management is the home of the Willamette MBA programs and part of Willamette University; a nationally renowned private university located in Salem, Oregon.

Willamette University was founded in 1842 and is the first university established in the Western United States. The University's motto is "Not unto ourselves alone are we born." The University consists of an undergraduate college of liberal arts and two graduate schools; the Atkinson Graduate School of Management and the College of Law. Willamette has a long history of providing innovative, professional education. It established the first law school in the Northwest and pioneered the development of the integrated, cross-functional, and cross-sector philosophy of management education when it opened the Atkinson Graduate School of Management in 1974.