UGA Named a Best Undergraduate Business School

Staff Report From Athens CEO

Wednesday, November 16th, 2016

College Choice, a leading authority in college and university rankings and resources, has published its 2016 ranking for the Best Undergraduate Business Schools.

For anyone who hopes to work for a major corporation or who dreams of running their own business, a business degree is a valuable commodity. And choosing the best business school is not an easy task, but College Choice has analyzed the data and presented it in an easy-to-digest ranking system that should help any prospective business student.

"According to Census Bureau data in 2011, 59 million people held a bachelor's degree, and 12 million of them majored in business related fields," Christian Amondson, Managing Editor of College Choice, said of the ranking. "These graduates will very likely be employed full-time and year-round."

College Choice created the 2016 ranking for Best Undergraduate Business Schools using a few key factors, including annual tuition, program features, internship opportunities, available financial aid, academic reputation, and more. This information was researched using a variety of publicly available resources, including PayScale.com, individual school websites, and the National Center for Education Statistics.The College Choice 2016 ranking for the Best Undergraduate Business School finds the Sloan School at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the top spot. The University of California—Berkeley's Haas School of Business and the University of Michigan—Ann Arbor's Ross School of Business round out the top three.

The complete rankings are as follows:

Bentley University, Waltham, MA

Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA

Brigham Young University—Provo, Provo, UT

Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA

Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH

Clemson University, Clemson, SC

College of William & Mary, Williamsburg, VA

Cornell University, Ithaca, NY

Emory University, Atlanta, GA

Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL

Georgetown University, Washington, D.C.

Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA

Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA

Indiana University—Bloomington, Bloomington, IN

Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA

Miami University—Oxford, Oxford, OH

Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI

New York University, New York, NY

Northeastern University, Boston, MA

Ohio State University—Columbus, Columbus, OH

Pennsylvania State University—University Park, University Park, PA

Purdue University—West Lafayette, West Lafayette, IN

Rensslaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY

Santa Clara University, Santa Clara, CA

Texas A&M University—College Station, College Station, TX

University of California—Berkeley, Berkeley, CA

University of California—Irvine, Irvine, CA

University of California—San Diego, La Jolla, CA

University of Colorado—Boulder, Boulder, CO

University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT

University of Florida, Gainesville, FL

University of Georgia, Athens, GA

University of Illinois—Urbana-Champaign,

University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA

University of Maryland—College Park, College Park, MD

University of Massachusetts—Amherst, Amherst, MA

University of Michigan — Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor, MI

University of Minnesota—Twin Cities, Minneapolis, MN

University of North Carolina—Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC

University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN

University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA

University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA

University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA

University of Texas—Austin, Austin, TX

University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA

University of Washington, Seattle, WA

University of Wisconsin—Madison, Madison, WI

Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA

Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, NC

Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO