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Wisconsin MBA Moves Up Nine Spots in Wall Street Journal Ranking

The Wisconsin MBA program moved up nine spots to 25th in the regional category in this year's Wall Street Journal ranking of MBA programs. The Wall Street Journal ranking was published in the newspaper's September 20, 2006 edition and was based on feedback from recruiters. Michigan and Northwestern were the only two Big Ten schools listed in the national category.

To create the ranking, more than 4,000 recruiters were surveyed on their views of schools' programs, placement services and performance of graduates in terms of leadership potential, teamwork skills, interpersonal qualities, and other issues.

"While rankings are an important reflection of how we are viewed, we remain focused on improvement in the fundamental areas of student quality, student satisfaction and placement success," said School of Business Dean Michael M. Knetter.

Knetter pointed to results in those three areas:

• Student quality, as measured by average GMAT score, is 661 for this fall's entering class, up from an average of 635 for students enrolled in 2000.
• More than 85 percent of May 2006 graduates expressed satisfaction with the quality of program curriculum.
• Career placement for May 2006 grads-the first graduating class of the newly designed Wisconsin MBA- was 95 percent within three months of graduation. Starting salaries were up 11.5 percent over the previous year.