Isenberg School’s Part-Time MBA Program Receives Regional and National Ranking by BusinessWeek
Wed., Nov 7, 2007
The UMass Amherst Isenberg School of Management’s Part-Time MBA program achieved rankings of 5th in the Northeast and 29th Nationally in BusinessWeek’s 2007 Top Part-Time MBA Programs rankings, released in November. The Part-Time MBA program, which includes over 900 students at sites in Holyoke, Shrewsbury, and Pittsfield as well as accessed online by students in all fifty states and internationally also received all “A’s” in the categories of Teaching Quality, Caliber of Classmates, and Curriculum. In the same survey, the Isenberg School program earned other distinctions: it placed 2nd with three other schools for the highest program completion rate by students, 4th in student satisfaction, and 8th in the percentage of tenured faculty teaching in a part-time program.
BusinessWeek based its rankings on three measures. A survey sent to 9,274 MBA students measured student satisfaction. An academic quality score evaluated six equally weighted measures: average GMAT score, average work experience, the percentage of all teachers in the part-time MBA program who are tenured faculty, average class size in core business classes, the number of business electives available to part-time MBA students, and the program's completion rate. A third indicator, which gauged post-MBA outcomes, is based on the percentage of survey respondents who say their program was "completely" responsible for them achieving their goals.
“These rankings reflect the strong regional and national quality of our Part-Time MBA program,” observes Eric Berkowitz, who is Associate Dean for Professional Programs at the Isenberg School. “It is especially gratifying for us, who regularly evaluate our students, to receive grades from them of "A" in teaching quality, curriculum, and caliber of classmates. I am proud to see the hard work of our faculty and staff as well as the quality of the students that we attract reflected in these rankings.”
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The Isenberg School of Management
Since its first graduating glass in 1949, the Isenberg School of Management has awarded more than 32,000 degrees, including the bachelor’s degree in business administration, the MBA degree (since 1963), and the Ph.D. degree (since 1967). The Isenberg School is fully accredited by AACSB International, the nation’s premier accreditor of business schools. The School’s 4,000 students major in disciplines associated with the School’s six departments: Accounting and Information Systems, Finance and Operations Management, Hospitality and Tourism Management, Management, Marketing, and Sport Management.
The Isenberg School’s full-time faculty of 95 includes endowed chairs in entrepreneurship, business leadership, operations management, finance, and integrative studies, which link management, science, and technology. The School houses the world-class Center for International Securities and Derivatives Markets, the Virtual Center for Supernetworks, the new Center for Spectator Sport Marketing Research. It is also state headquarters for the Massachusetts Small Business Development Center network.
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