USD's School of Business Administration features ranked undergraduate and graduate business degree programs.

BusinessWeek ranks USD's Evening MBA among the top 30 part-time programs in the Country

The University of San Diego’s Evening Master of Business Administration program is ranked 26th in the nation, according to BusinessWeek’s latest list of the top 30 part-time programs. The ratings are based on surveys of academic quality and student satisfaction. In total, BusinessWeek ranked the top 69 schools. Highlights of how USD Ranked include:

• “A+” grade for teaching quality
• “A” grade for how students rate the caliber of their fellow classmates
• “A” grade for curriculum
• Ranked #22 for student satisfaction
• Ranked #25 for academic quality
  
  

MBA Program ranked among the best in the world for social responsibility by the Aspen Institute.

The University of San Diego’s master of business administration program is ranked among the top 25 universities in the world for integrating social, environmental and ethical issues into its curriculum, according to the Aspen Institute’s 2009-2010 edition of “Beyond Grey Pinstripes.”

USD’s MBA program ranks 21st in the world and jumped 15 spots from its ranking of 36th two years ago on the list of the top 100 schools.  

“One year ago our financial system nearly collapsed, in part because of unethical and risky decisions by some in corporate America,” said David Pyke, dean of USDs’ School of Business Administration. “Our high ranking from the Aspen Institute reflects our efforts and commitment to train innovative leaders and entrepreneurs who can create and manage successful, socially responsible businesses in today’s global marketplace.”

For more information, please read the press release.

 

Undergraduate Program Ranked #29 by BusinessWeek

The University of San Diego currently ranks 29th in the nation on BusinessWeek’s 2009 list of the top 50 undergraduate business programs. USD, which has ranked in the top 50 for three years in a row, rose 18 spots this year, the largest jump on the magazine’s list.

USD’s undergrad program is now one of the top three in the state of California along with the University of California, Berkeley and the University of Southern California. USD is the highest-ranked school in the West Coast Conference of athletic teams.

Last year USD ranked 47th on the list. USD’s rise, was due in part to its ranking of 11th this year in corporate recruiter satisfaction with students. For the second year in a row, USD students also gave faculty an A+ for their teaching efforts.

According to BusinessWeek, “institutions that succeeded in helping students navigate the difficult job market improved their standings the most” and that USD saw its “fortunes rise due to a strong focus on accounting, where jobs are still plentiful.”  The magazine also said that the view from USD students is that “a close-knit program helps students feel at home (and that) improved recruiting efforts are starting to pay off.”

At USD, more than 850 undergraduate business students can choose from bachelor’s degrees in accountancy, economics and business administration with majors in business administration, business economics, marketing and finance.

The hallmarks of USD’s undergraduate business program are rigor, relevance, and personalized service that complement the liberal arts, values-based education that USD students receive. USD also offers a full and part-time MBA and international MBA program as well as master’s degrees in accountancy, leadership, real estate and supply supply chain management, and taxation.

While there are more than 1,600 business schools in the United States, BusinessWeek only considered schools accredited by the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB) for inclusion in the ranking.  From the list of more than 500 undergraduate business programs with AACSB accreditation, they narrowed the list down to the top 101 schools for inclusion in the ranking.

To rank these programs, BusinessWeek uses 9 distinct measures, including surveys of some 85,000 business majors and nearly 600 corporate recruiters, the median starting salaries for graduates, and the number of graduates each program sends on to the preeminent MBA programs. BusinessWeek also calculated an academic quality score for the undergraduate schools by combining SAT scores, faculty-student ratios, class size, the percentage of students with internships, and the number of hours students spend on class work each week.