UC Davis MBA Program Ranks Among the Nation’s Best for 11th Consecutive Year

For 11 consecutive years, the UC Davis Graduate School of Management has been ranked among the top business schools in the nation by U.S.News & World Report.

The survey, released March 31, 2006, places the UC Davis MBA program 21st among business schools at public universities and 46th overall.

The management school has been ranked in the top 50 every year since 1996, and continues to be the youngest business school within a public institution ever ranked by the magazine. With 117 full-time MBA students, it is the second smallest business school ranked in the top 50.

The UC Davis Graduate School of Management is one of only 35 business schools to be ranked in the top 50 for 11 consecutive years.

“The various rankings are not the measure we use to gauge our success as a school, but to be included among the nation’s top 50 MBA programs for 11 consecutive years is quite remarkable given the relative youth and size of the Graduate School of Management,” said Dean Nicole Woolsey Biggart, a founding faculty member of the school and holder of the Jerome J. and Elsie Suran Chair in Technology Management.

U.S.News & World Report bases its rankings on a range of criteria, including grade point averages and test scores of accepted applicants, the relative number of students accepted, success in placing graduates, and assessments of schools by deans of accredited business schools and corporate recruiters.

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The UC Davis Graduate School of Management’s recent accolades also include:

— Corporate recruiters surveyed by The Wall Street Journal rank the Graduate School of Management among the top 50 regional business schools in the nation.

— The Financial Times’ 2006 Global MBA Rankings places the Graduate School of Management #79 in the world and among the top 50 business schools in the U.S.

— The Economist Intelligence Unit, a division of The Economist magazine group, ranks the UC Davis MBA program 65th in its global business school survey.

— Business 2.0 magazine has included the UC Davis MBA program in its “Insider’s Guide to America’s Top 25 Business Schools” for two consecutive years.

— Forbes’ 2005 “Best Business Schools” issue ranks the UC Davis Working Professional MBA program 16th among part-time MBA programs nationwide based on graduates’ five-year return on investment.

About the UC Davis Graduate School of Management

The UC Davis Graduate School of Management offers an interactive and collaborative learning environment distinguished by a world-class faculty members renowned for their research and teaching, highly selective admissions, innovative and entrepreneurial students, and prime locations in Northern California’s economic hubs. Established in 1981, the school provides management education to 117 full-time MBA on the UC Davis campus and more than 325 working professional MBA students in Sacramento and the San Francisco Bay Area.