Jones School recognized in national rankings

Jones School recognized in national rankings

Rice University’s Jesse H. Jones Graduate School of Management is one of Hispanic Trends magazine’s top 25 MBA schools for Hispanics. The magazine released its choice of the top 25 in its September issue. Hispanic Trends lists the top 25 schools in alphabetical order without ranking. The selection was made on the school’s outreach to Hispanics and job placement.

For more information, visit <www.jonesgsm.rice.edu/jonesgsm/hispanic_trends.asp>.

The Rice MBA program received its highest ranking to date in the Wall Street Journal’s 2005 rankings released Sept. 21. Rice was ranked No. 22 out of the 47 schools grouped in the regional category. The regional ranking is based on how recruiters rated each school on 20 different attributes, their future plans to recruit at the school and the number of survey respondents who said they had recruited recently at the school.

The rankings are available online at <www.jonesgsm.rice.edu/jonesgsm/iThe_Wall_Street_Journali_Rankings.asp>.

In its Sept. 5 issue, Forbes magazine placed the Jones School in the top 50 U.S. business schools, as it has been every year Forbes has done the ranking. The ranking is a five-year ranking, based on the five-year MBA gain in salary, the number of years to payback and the opportunity cost of attending business school. This year the Class of 2000 was surveyed for the ranking. The Jones School is ranked No. 41, while holding the No. 20 slot in the category “Salary in 2004.” The Class of 2000 raised their average salary from $45,000 prior to entering the program to $115,000 within five years of graduation, the highest salary increase of any other Texas business school ranked by Forbes.

For more information, visit <www.jonesgsm.rice.edu/jonesgsm/Forbes_Rankings.asp>.

The Princeton Review 2005 guidebook, The Best 237 Business Schools, ranks Rice among the top 10 business schools in two of its 11 categories: most competitive students and greatest opportunity for women. The Princeton Review does not do an overall ranking. Based on surveying students and statistics provided by the school, the guide lists the top 10 schools in various categories.

The rankings are available online at <www.jonesgsm.rice.edu/jonesgsm/Princeton_Review_Rankings.asp>.

The Economist’s 2005 “Which MBA?” ranking recently placed Rice in the top 10 business schools in the world for “jobs found through the career services office.” Rice also leads all Texas business schools for increase in salary and highest postgraduate salary. This ranking is the latest to recognize the career success of Jones School graduates and the efficacy of the school’s Career Planning Center staff. The Economist surveyed the classes of 2003, 2004 and 2005.

The complete rankings can be found at <www.which-mba.com>.