Marist Rated One Of Top Business Schools

(Poughkeepsie) - For the third year in a row, the School of Management at Marist College is one of the nation’s outstanding business schools, according to The Princeton Review. The school is featured in the latest edition of its ratings guide, Best 282 Business Schools, 2007 Edition, which hit bookstores recently. The School of Management at Marist, which offers the first online MBA to be accredited by the New York State Education Department, is also one of only 300 business schools in the country to have its undergraduate and graduate business programs fully accredited by the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB). The Princeton Review also selected Marist as one of the “Best 361 Colleges” for a guidebook published in August, placing Marist in the top 10 percent of all colleges and universities in the U.S. and Canada. “We chose schools for this book based on our high regard for their academic programs and offerings, institutional data we collect from the schools, and the candid opinions of students attending them who rate and report on their campus experiences at the schools,” said Robert Franek, vice president for publishing at The Princeton Review. “We are pleased to recommend the School of Management at Marist College to readers of our book and users of our Web site as one of the best institutions they could attend to earn an MBA.” “What makes this honor special for Marist is the fact that we get high marks for the program from our students,” said Dr. Andr? Fortino, dean of the School of Management. “They told The Princeton Review that a Marist MBA is a ‘solidly designed degree that provides a broad-based coverage of business to a student body that has a wide range of backgrounds and levels of managerial experience.’” They also praised our “excellent online program, which allows students to go to school anytime, anywhere,” and added, “Marist is definitely technologically advanced. That tells us we are preparing future leaders who will take their values-based education from Marist and apply it to whatever field they choose in business, government, education, and the nonprofit sector.”

“The fact that Marist has been chosen for this distinction for the third year in a row gives our entire college community great satisfaction,” said Marist President Dennis J. Murray. “Our students told The Princeton Review Marist offers ‘cutting-edge classes,’ students are happy with their Marist experience, and they receive ‘solid preparation in marketing, teamwork, quantitative skills, computer skills,’ and ‘doing business in a global economy.’ In particular, I salute our faculty for providing our students with learning experiences in and out of the classroom that give them an advantage in what is an increasingly competitive global marketplace.”

The Princeton Review’s 80-question survey asked students about themselves, their career plans, and their schools’ academics, student body, and campus life. The resulting responses determined a school’s eligibility for inclusion in the guidebook and were used in writing the narrative of each selected program. The Princeton Review does not rank the schools in the book on a single hierarchical list from 1 to 282 or name one business school best overall.