Rawls College of Business Programs Nationally Ranked
March 23, 2009
Bachelor’s and physicians’ MBA programs recognized by national publications.
The Rawls College of Business has launched a $70 million capital campaign for a state-of-the-art business facility and other funding initiatives. Read More: Rawls College of Business: North Gateway to Campus.
Two national publications have ranked programs in Texas Tech University’s Rawls College of Business as front-runners in their areas of education.
Rawls College MBA for Physicians
Modern Healthcare’s 2008 survey of business graduate schools for physician-executives has ranked Rawls’ MBA for physicians program at 19 among schools offering similar MBAs.
Programs are ranked on five factors:
- Length of time to complete-the shorter the program, the higher the rank
- Cost of total tuition-the lower the tuition, the higher the rank
- Number of days students must spend on campus - the fewer the days, the higher the rank
- Age in years of each program-the older the program, the higher the rank
- Number of total graduates
The five rankings are totaled, with the lowest score getting the highest final rank.
Rawls College’s Bachelor of Business Administration
Rawls College undergraduate programs were ranked 77th in the 2009 Business Week annual ratings of programs. This places the Rawls College’s Bachelor of Business Administration programs in the top 5th of all accredited business programs.
In 2007 the Rawls College was ranked 83. In 2008 too few seniors responded for ranking.
View the 2009 rankings on the BusinessWeek Web site.
Texas Tech’s undergraduate business programs were rated ahead of:
- Oklahoma (81)
- Colorado (83)
- Iowa State (92)
- Nebraska (96)
- Oklahoma State (Unrated)
The ranking was very near:
- Missouri (74)
- Iowa (76)