1884: Under some scrutiny and vocal concern, the Commercial School is established, offering such subjects as accounting, commercial arithmetic and commercial law.

1892: The school’s enrollment reaches 110, and it becomes the College of Business.

1922: The department of business administration is added to AddRan College of Arts and Sciences, where bachelors of arts in business administration are offered.

1938: The department of business administration becomes the School of Business and the first MBA is offered. Certificates in accounting, general business and secretarial science were also offered.

1944: The School’s first dean, E.M. Sowell, a Harvard Business School graduate, is appointed by President Sadler. The program offerings grow under Sowell to include advertising, personnel administration and industrial relations and marketing, to name a few. Sowell resigns in 1954.

1951: The Southwest Business Foundation (SWBF) is chartered as a nonprofit education and civic corporation, with Marion J. Neeley (appointed trustee in 1947) as president. Its goal is to encourage support for the school, establish scholarships and connect the school to the community. In 1953 the SWBF begins a fund to build a new home for the school.

1957: Dan D. Rogers Hall, named for a former trustee, is dedicated, replacing barrack quarters the school has been housed in. Several other departments share the new building, which cost $825,000.

1967: The School of Business is renamed the M.J. Neeley School of Business in honor of the man who, as trustee, led one of TCU’s most aggressive building programs in history from 1951 to 1970.

1989: Tandy Hall dedicated.

1999: TCUglobalcenter at Alliance is opened, offering off-site executive education MBAs and seminars at Alliance Airport.