Rawls College of Business Grad and Undergrad Programs Nationally Recognized
March 19, 2009
By: Leslie Cranford
Two national publications have ranked programs in Texas Tech University’s Rawls College
of Business as front-runners in their areas of education.
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);
and number of total graduates. The five rankings are totaled, with the lowest score
getting the highest final rank.
Rawls College undergraduate programs were ranked 77
th in the 2009 Business Week annual ratings of programs. This places the Rawls College's
Bachelor of Business Administration programs in the top 5
th of all accredited business programs.
In 2007 the Rawls College was ranked 83. In 2008 too few seniors responded for ranking.
See the 2009 rankings at
www.businessweek.com/bschools/rankings/.
Texas Tech's undergraduate business programs were rated ahead of Oklahoma (81), Colorado
(83), Iowa State (92), Nebraska (96), and Oklahoma State (Unrated). The ranking was
very near Missouri (74) and Iowa (76), but behind the University of Texas at Austin
(10) and Texas A&M University (37).
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CONTACT: Donald K. Clancy, professor and senior associate dean, Rawls College of Business,
Texas Tech University, (806) 742-3183 or
don.clancy@ttu.edu.