On Campus
Business Students Team Up for Success
The UW-Madison School of Business jumped up 10 spots in the latest U.S. News & World Report ranking of MBA programs, the second largest increase among all schools in the top 50.
The winning Grainger Center team was made up of (left to right): Todd Tuescher, Steven Holzman, Lisa Perrone, Niels Batke, Evan Smestad and Aron Larson.
The school was ranked 36th among all U.S. business schools, 18th among public programs. Three programs—marketing, production/operations and supply chain management—were ranked in the top 20 on the U.S. News Web site, and the accounting program was ranked 24th. (U.S. News did not rank real estate and insurance programs, departments MBA Program Rises in the Rankingswhere the school has been a traditional powerhouse, typically ranking in the top fi ve nationally.)
The rise in the U.S. News ranking follows a 13-spot increase the school achieved in the Financial Times January 2004 ranking of MBA programs worldwide.
"We see this improvement as an affi rmation of the fundamental progress we are making in the areas of faculty quality, student quality, the educational experience and placement success,” said Dean Michael M. Knetter. “These fundamentals, and not the rankings themselves, will continue to be our primary focus."
Other team efforts:
- Accounting students made the finals of the national case competition sponsored by PricewaterhouseCoopers for the second straight year.
- A team of MBA students from the UW-Madison School of Business has earned a top spot in the annual Big Ten Case Competition for the third straight year.
- Two teams of MBA students from the Weinert Center for Entrepreneurship advanced to the semifinals of the Jungle Business Plan Challenge.
- MBA students finished in the top 20 in the Thunderbird Innovation Challenge.
