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When [[World War II]] broke out in 1939, many students and faculty left school to join the [[military]], shrinking 1943 BPA enrollment to only 130 [[civilians]].<ref name=RHS_History/> After World War II ended and with the passage of the 1944 [[G.I. Bill]] to federally subsidize veteran's higher education costs,<ref name=US_GI_Bill_Impact/> BPA grew substantially in size, instituted a graduate program, and in 1947 issued its first graduate degree—a [[Master of Business Administration|Masters in Business Administration]] (MBA). By 1948 enrollment had climbed back to 2,200 students.<ref name=RHS_History/>
In 1961, UMD knocked down an old wooden gymnasium shed and built the new building Millard E. Tydings Hall, which was named after Maryland senator and Maryland Agricultural College (a predecessor school now rolled up into UMD) engineering alumnus "Scott" [[Millard E. Tydings]].<ref name=MAC_Tyding_Hall/> College of Business and Public Administration (BPA) moved in and remained there into the 1990s. Donald W. O’Connell, an economist and ''[[New York Herald Tribune]]'' editorial writer, became dean of the college in 1962 and served in that role for the next 11 years.<ref>{{Cite news |date=October 16, 2012 |title=Donald W. O'Connell, U-Md. dean |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/donald-w-oconnell-u-md-dean/2012/10/16/57ed55ce-16e7-11e2-8792-cf5305eddf60_story.html |access-date=June 6, 2022 |newspaper=The Washington Post}}</ref> In 1962, the BPA's graduate MBA program became one of the first MBA programs accredited by AACSB. In 1964 women enrollment grew significantly, and after several years women became fully integrated into student networking organizations and clubs. By 1966 BPA issued its first [[
In 1973, the [[Business Administration]] department within BPA was spun off as a standalone [[college]] called College of Business and Management (CBM), with professional jazz saxophone player Rudolph "Rudy" P. Lamone appointed to begin his nineteen-year [[tenure]] as [[Dean (education)|Dean]]. Two years later, the part-time evening MBA programs catering to working professionals were launched at both CBM's main campus in [[College Park, Maryland]] and CBM's secondary campus north west in [[Shady Grove, Maryland]]. In 1978, CBM instituted its own undergraduate [[University and college admission|admissions]] program to enable more selective student recruitment. In 1979, the school offered its first [[Master of Science]] (MS) degrees, including an MS in the newly added discipline [[Finance]].<ref name=RHS_History/>
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