Business college one of America’s top fifty, according to BusinessWeek

The College of Business Administration (CBA) has been named one of the top fifty undergraduate business schools in the country by BusinessWeek magazine.

Northeastern came in thirty-seventh in the magazine’s first-ever ranking of business programs, which initially looked at 1,400 colleges and universities.

Provost Ahmed Abdelal calls the result "a major recognition of the quality of our business undergraduate education. I expect this ranking to impact positively on future rankings of CBA in particular, and Northeastern in general."

Looking at test scores, selectivity, and the number of students coming from the top 10 percent of their high school class, the magazine narrowed its overall focus to eighty-four schools.

BusinessWeek then asked for opinions from nearly 100,000 business majors and 2,000 corporate recruiters. It also tapped its own storehouse of data to determine which schools send the most students to top MBA programs.

According to the survey, Northeastern’s business program ranked twenty-seventh among students and forty-ninth among recruiters.

CBA’s academic-quality ranking was twenty-ninth, and its rank for sending students to MBA programs was forty-first. It also got an A+ for job placement. Many students favorably mentioned Northeastern’s co-op program.

Of all programs surveyed, the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School came out on top.

Among local schools, MIT’s Sloan School of Management placed fourth; Boston College, twenty-third; Babson College, twenty-eighth; Boston University, thirtieth; and Bentley College, thirty-first.

In the student-survey portion, Northeastern ranked higher than all other local colleges, except for MIT.

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