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BOSTON COLLEGE’S CARROLL SCHOOL EARNS
LOFTY RANKING IN BUSINESSWEEK SURVEY
–BC’s Undergraduate Program Rated No. 14 in National Listing–
CHESTNUT HILL, MA. (3-9-07) – Boston College’s Carroll School of Management has been ranked No. 14 among the nation’s undergraduate business programs in a survey released today by BusinessWeek magazine. The rating marks a nine-position advancement for the school in the magazine’s second annual business school rankings.
The BusinessWeek rankings are based on five areas of measurement, including a poll involving more than 80,000 business majors at schools across the nation and undergraduate recruiters. Other factors considered were starting salaries for graduates; the number of graduates who went on to top MBA programs; and an academic quality rating that included SAT scores, faculty-student ratios, student services and the school’s physical facilities.
Boston College’s Carroll School earned “A+” grades in teaching quality and job placement categories and an “A” rating in facilities and services. “Alumni and professors love helping find jobs,” noted the BusinessWeek report, “making BC’s campus networking an invaluable resource.”
“We are pleased about the rankings, of course,” said Carroll School Dean Andrew Boynton, “but most important is that they reaffirm to all of us that striving each day to create an outstanding undergraduate education that shapes the whole person is what Boston College is about.
“These excellent rankings combined with the excitement we have about the undergraduate student at Boston College give testimony to the creativity and energy that the entire Carroll School faculty, staff, and increasingly, engaged alumni, have brought to bear on the undergraduate management program at BC,” Boynton said.
Boston College’s Carroll School was one of only two New England undergraduate management programs to earn a place in the BusinessWeek top 25 ranking. (MIT’s Sloan School was No. 6.) Boston College joins five other Atlantic Coast Conference schools – University of Virginia (No. 2), University of North Carolina (15), Wake Forest University (16) and University of Maryland (30) at the top of BW’s 93-school listing.