This article first appeared in the UConn Business magazine, Volume 1, Issue 1 (Summer 2009)
Each year, the major news magazines (including BusinessWeek, U.S. News & World Report, Forbes, and others) release a college rankings issue, comparing the overall quality of U.S. and international schools. Candidates for undergraduate and graduate programs use these rankings as one source of information to help them make their final decision.
Each magazine stresses different criteria, some concentrating on job placement statistics or on starting salaries, while others look at the research and academic achievements of faculty, quality of incoming students, or school reputation among peer institutions. Return on investment has recently become an important criterion in several rankings.
Here at the School of Business, we have always followed the philosophy that academic excellence is our primary mission, and that doing well in the various rankings is a reflection of that excellence. We are very pleased that a number of programs and departments in the School of Business have achieved such distinction.
BusinessWeek publishes biennial rankings for both graduate and undergraduate business programs. As of fall 2008, UConn’s MBA Program ranked among the top 45 “Best Business Schools” nationally and among the top 20 public programs.
BusinessWeek also ranked our MBA Program 7th nationally for Return on Investment. For 2008, BusinessWeek’s “Best Undergraduate Business Programs” ranked UConn 25th among public institutions, again making UConn the #1 public business school in New England. U.S. News & World Report produces two sets of academic rankings each year – undergraduate programs in the fall and graduate schools in the spring.
As of August 2008, UConn’s undergraduate business program ranked 30th among public institutions. Additionally, UConn’s undergraduate Real Estate specialty was ranked 8th and the Insurance & Risk Management specialty was ranked 12th in the nation among all business schools – public and private.
With respect to “America’s Best Graduate Schools” for 2009, UConn ranks 26th among the nation’s top public business schools – and 52nd overall, including public and private schools.
UConn School of Business Rankings:
UConn MBA Program Ranked #7 for Return on Investment – BusinessWeek (2008)
Ranked 33rd in “Top 100 Best Values in Public Colleges” – Kiplinger’s Personal Finance (2009)
Ranked 5th among OPIM departments in terms of research productivity – ORMS Today (2007)
Ranked 51st nationally in regional schools category – The Wall Street Journal/Harris Interactive (2007)
Ranked 26th for graduate Information Systems specialty – U.S. News & World Report (2007)
Ranked in Top 10 nationally for “Best Campus Facilities” – Princeton Review (2007)
Ranked 1st among Real Estate programs for research – Journal of Real Estate Research (2008)
Ranked 11th nationally among undergraduate Accounting programs – BusinessWeek (2008)
Ranked 17th among Management departments for Research Productivity – TAMU/UFL (2009)
Ranked 12th for Insurance & Risk Management program – U.S. News & World Report (2008)
Ranked 16th among OPIM departments IS Research & Productivity – Communications of the ACM (2008)
Ranked among nation’s top 70 by MBA recruiters – The Wall Street Journal (2007)
The UConn School of Business is one of 15 graduate schools of business named to The Princeton Review’s “Student Opinion
Honors for Business Schools” in the category Accounting, appearing in the April 2009 issue of Entrepreneur, a national publication for and about entrepreneurs.
