The Neeley School of Business rose up the ranks to No. 30 in the country from No. 34 in 2009 in BusinessWeek’s fifth annual ranking of U.S. undergraduate business programs. A total of 111 undergraduate private and public U.S. schools are ranked. Other Texas schools ranked: No. 44 A&M; No. 31 SMU Cox; No. 10 UT Austin.

 

“In a year when many top programs struggled to find jobs for graduates, the fortunes of many rose and fell on how well they succeeded,” says BusinessWeek www.businessweek.com.

 

Other BusinessWeek national rankings for the Neeley School of Business at TCU are:

·        No. 4 in student survey (1 Notre Dame, 2 Virginia, 3 Cornell, 4 TCU, 5 UT Austin)

·        No. 19 for academic quality

·        Grade A+ for Teaching Quality

·        Grade A+ for Facilities and Service

·        Grade A for Job Placement

 

To identify the top undergraduate business programs, Bloomberg BusinessWeek uses a methodology that includes nine measures of student satisfaction, postgraduation outcomes, and academic quality. BusinessWeek bases its ranking on three years of student and recruiter surveys, an MBA feeder school measure, salaries, and academic quality. surveyed 85,000 senior business majors and nearly 600 corporate recruiters.