The Neeley School of Business at TCU has been ranked #33 in the Top 50 of
BusinessWeek's undergraduate business programs. The rankings were based
on five measures of student engagement, post-graduation outcomes and academic
quality.
“I hope the Neeley School’s new ranking from BusinessWeek, along with
our recent national ranking from the Wall Street Journal, will encourage
even more Texas students and employers to take a closer look at the exciting
things happening at Neeley,” said TCU Neeley School Dean Daniel G. Short. “There
are good reasons for us receiving this level of national recognition. This
spring alone, our students have been awarded top prizes in various university
business competitions. And seven of our undergraduate students graduating in May
have already accepted desirable jobs with major Wall Street firms. These awards
and job placements speak volumes about the quality of business education
students receive at the Neeley School.”
Added Bill Moncrief, senior associate dean for undergraduate programs, “I am
pleased that BusinessWeek has recognized the value of a Neeley School
undergraduate degree and the things that make us stand out, such as the personal
interaction between students and faculty, being leaders in innovative programs,
and encouraging our students to be on the cutting edge of the rapidly changing
and evolving business world. I encourage future students, hiring businesses and
alumni to visit the campus to see the work that our students do.”
BusinessWeek screened 1,400 U.S. colleges and universities
for business programs that are accredited by the Association to Advance
Collegiate Schools of Business and that met three criteria based on test scores,
selectivity and the number of students from the top 10 percent of their high
school classes. More than 90 schools met those benchmarks.
BusinessWeek teamed up with Boston’s Cambria Consulting and identified
84 of those 90 colleges that met stringent quality criteria, and then surveyed
nearly 100,000 business majors. To find out how students fared after graduation,
the team surveyed 2,000 recruiters and studied starting salaries and conducted a
third survey of the business programs themselves. BusinessWeek also
tapped into its storehouse of data to determine which schools send the most
students to top MBA programs.
For more information on the Neeley School of Business, visit www.neeley.tcu.edu.
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