Fort Worth, TX March 21, 2012
For three years in a row, the Neeley School of Business at TCU has ranked in the top 30 in the nation in Bloomberg Businessweek’s annual ranking of U.S. undergraduate business programs. TCU’s Neeley School ranked No. 28 out of 142 U.S. schools ranked by Bloomberg Businessweek for 2012. The rankings are based primarily on surveys of 86,000 senior business students and 749 employers, and a calculation of academic quality based on SAT scores, internships, class size, student-teacher ratios and number of hours students devote to classwork.
The Neeley School of Business at TCU is the only Texas school in the top 30 for Academic Quality, at No. 22.
Neeley ranked No. 6 in the Student Survey, behind Notre Dame (1), Virginia (2), Cornell (3) Emory (4), Richmond (5), and ahead of North Carolina (7), MIT (8), Texas-Austin (9) and SMU (10).
The Neeley School also garnered straight A-pluses in Job Placement, Teaching Quality and Facilities/Services.
See the complete rankings at http://www.businessweek.com/interactive_reports/ugtable_3-20.html.
Like the Neeley School, schools that excelled in the rankings had students with higher average salaries and a larger percentage of internships than last year. Neeley ranked No. 29 last year.
Comments from Neeley students include:
“We have a lot of speakers, events, seminars and workshops to improve skills beyond the classroom, i.e. networking, interviewing, resume writing, etc.”
“It’s personal. People truly care and you’re not a number. The education and experiences that you can have are so well rounded that you almost have to give an effort not to develop.”
“Classrooms are small; students have every opportunity to learn. Many classes don’t use multiple choice tests, which I see as a plus because in business there isn’t always just one answer.”
“The quality of the faculty [and] the professor-student ratio help the Neeley School of Business stand apart from other academic institutions. The interest my professors have taken in my personal development has been truly one of a kind, and I continue to be astonished at how willing they are to meet with me outside of class to discuss my career plans and life goals.”
For more information on the Neeley School of Business at TCU, visit www.neeley.tcu.edu.