About Menlo College

Menlo College was founded in 1927 when the "Menlo School for Boys" became "Menlo School and College," and 27 young men were enrolled as freshmen for the fall term. The campus originally consisted of the 12-acre Fife Estate located at the corner of El Camino Real and Alejandra Avenue. The College's student body expanded quickly, and less than a year later the Trustees purchased four and one half acres to the west of the campus for athletic fields.

In 1948, after Stanford University discontinued its undergraduate business program, Menlo College saw opportunity in the vacant market and established its renowned School of Business Administration (SBA) as a four-year, specialized business degree program. In 1971 The Trustees changed almost a half-century of tradition by instituting coeducation at Menlo College, and Howard Hall was renovated for its new female students. By 1986 the School of Letters and Sciences (L&S) was expanded to a full, four-year program.

In 1994, Menlo College reorganized to become a separate institution of higher education with its own Board of Trustees. In 2007 and 2008, under the leadership of Menlo College's new president, Dr. G. Timothy Haight these details were finalized and Menlo College was defined and reestablished as a business school—with a mission "to develop future leaders through a liberal arts-based business education that integrates academic study and fieldwork in a Silicon Valley environment unmatched in its potential for innovation."

Today, Menlo College's size, and its location in one of the world's most entrepreneurial and innovative geographical areas, is enabling the College to create a valuable market niche for itself locally—as well as globally—as Silicon Valley's Business School. And, as the Silicon Valley continues its historic role as a global pioneer in business and industry, Menlo College will develop graduates who are entrepreneurial, innovative, critical thinkers, strategic communicators and team players—men and women who can envision, flourish and lead in a constantly changing global environment.