Jones School Program Garners High Rankings
Rice University’s Jesse H. Jones Graduate School of Management received high marks last fall in several magazine rankings.
In a survey published in its November issue, Entrepreneur magazine joined The Princeton Review in ranking the Jones School 22nd among top graduate entrepreneurship programs in the U.S. The fifth annual survey, which ranked more than 900 schools, was based on key criteria in the areas of academics and requirements, students and faculty, and outside-the-classroom support and experiences.
For the past three years, Financial Times has ranked the Jones School’s finance program among the top 10 in the world. In the publication’s list of MBAs for executives worldwide, Rice ranked 49th among 90 business schools, up from 67 last year. Among only U.S. schools, Rice’s MBA for executives ranked in the top 25 and the full-time MBA program in the top 30.
In terms of average salary three years after graduation, Rice executive MBA graduates ranked 12th nationally. “The biggest driver of this improved rating is the report from our MBA for executives 2004 class, which saw an increase of 59 percent in their post-MBA salary over a five-year period,” said William Glick, dean of the Jones School.
Latin Trade magazine also recognized the Jones School’s entrepreneurship and diversity programs and ranked the Rice MBA among its preferred list of 45 international schools and 15 U.S. schools.
To better serve the growing demands of an entrepreneurial focus in business education and to further develop principled, innovative thought leaders in global communities, the Jones School soon will offer a concentration in entrepreneurship to its full-time MBA program.