TCU's Neeley School in Top 50 Undergraduate Business Schools by BusinessWeek

Fort Worth, TX

5/2/2006

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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