PRINCETON, N.J. – The University of Rhode Island College of Business Administration and Bryant University College of Business are ranked among the best in the nation in the guide book “Best 290 Business Schools, 2008 edition,” released this month by The Princeton Review.
“The Princeton Review offers objective third-party verification for the quality and distinctiveness of our full-time MBA program,” said Mark M. Higgins, dean of the College of Business Administration since 2006. (http://www.pbn.com/detail/21543.html”>READ MORE)
Besides statistics from the schools themselves, the report is based on “uncensored, unbiased student views of the business schools featured on this site and in our publications,” Princeton Review says on its Web site. Graduate students surveyed said URI’s “smart” classrooms are a plus and described the college as offering a solid preparation for accounting. They “loved” that the accelerated one-year MBA program “is designed to have us working with real-life small businesses by setting up consulting relationships with local companies,” Higgins noted.
Applicants to URI also considered business schools at Boston College, Boston University, Northeastern University, Suffolk University, the University of Connecticut, Babson College and Bryant University, the survey found.
The Bryant College of Business was described by respondents as “tight-knit, small school” where “people genuinely care about the community and each other,” the survey found. Students who chose the school cited its reputation as “a top business school in the area” and its “amazing facilities.”
Applicants to Bryant also considered business schools at Babson College, Bentley College, Suffolk University and URI.
The guide book doesn’t rank schools on overall quality, but does include 11 “Top 10” lists for Toughest to Get Into, Best Career Prospects, Most Competitive Students, Best Classroom Experience, Best Professors, Most Family Friendly, Best Campus Environment, Best Campus Facilities, Best Administered, Greatest Opportunity for Minority Students and Greatest Opportunity for Women.
Among schools published in the Providence Business News list of top MBA programs, Harvard University is No. 2 for best classroom experience and for toughest to get into; No. 3 for career prospects; No. 5 for both family-friendliness and campus facilities; and No. 9 for best professors. Massachusetts Institute of Technology is No. 5 for toughest to get into and No. 10 for career prospects. The University of Massachusetts at Amherst is No. 3 and Babson College in Wellesley is No. 10 among the best opportunities for women.
The Princeton Review’s “Best 290 Business Schools, 2008 edition,” published by Random House, is based on statistics provided by school administrators plus opinion surveys of 19,000 students nationwide. To learn more, visit www.princetonreview.com.
