Established in 1961, ASU's W.P. Carey School of Business gives students the opportunity to earn their MBA through the traditional full,time route in addition to offering evening, weekend and online courses. (The school also offers a personalized 'custom corporate' program, where all students are from a single company.) Its overall MBA curriculum has consistently ranks in U.S. News & World Report's 2009 ranking of top MBA programs in the U.S. The school also has international connections: through its China program, touted by The Washington Post as 'the first partnership between a U.S. business school and the Chinese government on Chinese soil,' students can receive an executive MBA through a collaboration with China's Ministry of Finance and the Shanghai National Accounting Institute.

The school offers six main areas of specialization: financial management and markets, information management, real estate, strategic marketing and services leadership, supply chain financial management and supply chain management. In addition, W.P. Carey offers three secondary areas of specialization: health sector management, international business and management. To help students get the maximum amount of personal instruction, the school attempts to keep classes small, too--fewer than 45 students populate its specialization classes and 25 students attend its elective courses.