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Recent Rankings

Accounting Grads Among Best in Nation on CPA Exam

UW-Madison accounting graduates excelled on recent national CPA exams. School of Business graduate students were ranked second in the nation for the May and November 2001 CPA exams on all subjects. When it came to auditing, they did even better, ranking first in the nation on both the May and November auditing exams. The results are according to the National Association of State Boards of Accountancy.

The latest results continue UW-Madison's long tradition of producing exceptional accounting graduates. Between 1992 and 2001, the School of Business was ranked third among all schools in the country in percentage of undergraduate students passing the CPA Examination. School of Business graduate students were ranked seventh over the same period.

Wisconsin's Undergraduate Business Program Ranked 11th in Nation

This fall the undergraduate business program at the University of Wisconsin-Madison was ranked 11th in the nation in "America's Best Colleges" 2003 guidebook published by U.S. News & World Report. That is one step up from the business school's previous ranking. In addition, the magazine ranked the business school's insurance and risk management program third in the country.

Dean Michael M. Knetter noted, "I am pleased that our undergraduate program has continually been ranked with the top business schools. We have extremely qualified students, a broad curriculum and strong community spirit among students and faculty in this program."

UW-Madison as a whole also moved up in the rankings. U.S. News and World Report ranked the University of Wisconsin-Madison 31st in the nation, seventh among public universities, up from eighth last year.

Wisconsin's Graduate Program Ranked Among World's Top Programs

The number of publications ranking graduate business programs continues to expand. Among the most recent:

• The UW-Madison's MBA program was ranked among the world's top 50 programs by the Wall Street Journal in September in its second annual rankings of top MBA programs worldwide. Wisconsin was ranked 50th, 16th among public U.S. universities.
• The MBA program was ranked 66th in the world, and 14th among U.S. public universities by a new ranking by the Economist Intelligence Unit, which publishes, Which MBA?
• The MBA program was ranked among the top 50 in the U.S. by Business Week.
• The Executive MBA program was ranked 33rd in the world by the London-based Financial Times, placing it seventh among public U.S. business schools.
  

Faculty Research Expertise Ranked 14th Among U.S. Business Schools

The strength of UW-Madison School of Business faculty in research is reflected in a recent nationwide study. School of Business research was ranked 14th in the U.S. overall, and two individual departments--Management and Human Resources and Marketing-- were ranked second in the nation.

The study was an update of a previous report published in the Academy of Management Journal. In this study, the authors, four professors at the University of Georgia, Indiana University, University of Illinois and Southern Methodist University, ranked schools according to the number of pages published in top-ranked scholarly journals in each field.