The New Home of the Knauss School of Business
Welcome to the Knauss Center for Business Education — where business meets purpose. Each space within the 120,000-square-foot complex is intentionally designed to create an innovation and collaboration ecosystem. Groundbreaking technology, active learning classrooms and labs, a production studio and a student startup incubator are all designed to empower our students to remake the future of business.
A State-of-the-Art Facility to Deliver an Exceptional Student Experience
The Knauss Center for Business Education has been intentionally designed to bring out the very best of innovation, collaboration and values-driven leadership from our students. In these halls, we’ll educate the next wave of business leaders, foster student startups, grow small businesses and facilitate change on both a local and global scale.
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A Transformative Gift
Learn about Don and Ellie Knauss' vision for educating future leaders. Their $50 million gift not only helps enable the construction of the 120,000-square-foot Knauss Center. It unites students, faculty, staff and alumni in pursuit of an aspirational vision to drive business stewardship for a better world.
We express our most sincere gratitude to Don and Ellie Knauss for their investment of $50 million to fund construction of the Knauss Center for Business Education. The generosity of the Knauss family has enabled USD to transform the Knauss School of Business footprint and unify all of the school’s academic programs, centers and institutes.
Help Empower the Next Wave of Business Leaders
For decades, the Knauss School of Business has educated incredible students who grow into successful leaders making a difference in their communities and industries. The brand new Knauss Center will be the home for the next wave of dreamers, doers and business leaders.
And we can’t do it without your help — the dreamers and doers who are part of our Knauss School of Business community.
Every dollar raised is being put directly into this project so that we can continue to support our students and the brighter futures they’re creating every single day. We rely on donations of all sizes to fund these projects and fuel this goal of building a unified place for learning and innovation in the heart of USD’s beautiful campus.