November 2, 2007
The Professional MBA program at the Rollins College Crummer Graduate School of Business was ranked number 23 nationally based on three measures established by BusinessWeek magazine. The Crummer School was also ranked 5th in the south and number one in Florida. The Rollins MBA was the only business school in Florida that ranked in the top 30.
"We are extremely pleased to be recognized once again by a major business publication as the number one Part-time MBA program in the state of Florida. The quality of our faculty, students, and facilities has enabled us to be ranked along side some of the best business schools in the country such as UCLA, Emory and USC," said Crummer School Dean Craig McAllaster. "This ranking follows on the heels of our ranking by Forbes magazine as the number one full-time MBA program. These rankings confirm what our faculty, students, alumni and corporate recruiters already know, that the Crummer School at Rollins College is Florida's most prestigious MBA.
BusinessWeek's 2007 part-time MBA rankings are based on three measures. First, a student survey, sent to 9,274 part-time MBA students at 81 programs and completed by 3,209 (35%), measures general student satisfaction. Second, the academic quality score consists of six equally weighted measures: average GMAT score, average work experience, the percentage of tenured faculty teaching in the part-time MBA program, average class size in core business classes, the number of business electives available to part-time MBA students, and the program's graduation rate. The third measure is based on the percentage of graduates who say their MBA program was "completely" responsible for them achieving their career goals.
To view the rankings, visit Business Week online.
The BusinessWeek study will be published in the next issue of the magazine and is conducted every two years. "We are so pleased that the students surveyed gave Crummer an A+ for teaching quality of faculty, an A for the caliber of classmates, and an A for our curriculum. For the overall Student Satisfaction rank we were ranked 13th out of 81 schools, not bad for a small school in Winter Park, Florida," said McAllaster.
