Thunderbird School of Global Management
Former name | American Institute for Foreign Trade |
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| Type | Public business school |
| Established | 8 April 1946 |
Parent institution | Arizona State University |
| Dean | Charla Griffy-Brown |
| Location | , , United States |
| Campus | Urban |
| Colors | Thunderbird Blue, Gold and Grey |
| Website | thunderbird.asu.edu |
The Thunderbird School of Global Management (or simply Thunderbird) is a global leadership, management, and business school at Arizona State University, a public research university in the Phoenix metropolitan area. It was founded in 1946 as an independent, private institution and acquired by Arizona State University in 2014. The school moved to ASU's Downtown Phoenix campus in 2018. The campus built a new $75 million building for the school in 2021.
Thunderbird is a unit of the Arizona State University Enterprise. Its programs are accredited by the Higher Learning Commission and the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB).
As of 2018, the school had around 45,000 alumni, also referred to as "Thunderbirds.”