I actually live in Rhode Island and have vaguely heard of Bryant University and only know of 5 or so people from my high school who went there.On some undergrad business rankings it was ranked higher than UMiami,Tulane,Syracuse,U Washington,and others which I find surprising b/c I never knew it was this good of a business school.What I guess I am wondering is,do the rankings lie?Does anyone have any knowledge of this school or know of anyone who went here?
Bryant is considered to have a first tier accounting program. It is very well known in these business circles.
Bryant does not make the top 190 undergraduate business programs according to USNWR. The school is either in need of recognition or not that fundamentally strong. It’s hard to say.
@merc81 You are not correct. Bryant is considered by the people that actually make hiring decisions to have one of the best Accounting programs in the country.
It’s ranked 17th by Business Week and 3rd by College Factual.
@ScaredNJDad1: My post (2) relates to the very limited context of USNWR as it pertains to Bryant’s business program in general.
Here’s some data from Bryant’s website:
http://www.bryant.edu/about/at-a-glance/institutional-data.htm
Note that 13% of Fall 2013 freshmen did not return the following year.
I am a proud Bryant alum from the 80s. My group of college friends includes, currently:
VP of Tax for Fortune 500 company
CEO of aircraft parts mfg
Prominent tax attorney
VP of big Wall St firm
President of payroll company
Regional VP of huge commercial furniture mfg
VP of cargo for major airline
VP of sales for private jet mfg
General manager of a large Hyatt
Head of large insurance agency
Successful real estate developer
That’s just a sample, I could go on. We all had great jobs coming out of college. Look up the name Jack Welch, a business icon, former head of General Electric. He famously said some of the best executives he knows came from schools like Bryant.
This is all anecdotal, but my cousin went to Bryant and loved it (as far as I know). He got a job with a company he had done an internship with straight out of college.
Wow, that’s a very high attrition rate.
Sarcasm noted.
Bryant overperforms by graduation rate by 4 percentage points, a positive indicator. (USNWR.)
UCB and UCLA are huge state schools; Bryant has an enrollment just over 3,000. Not very comparable, imo. How about comparing Bryant with small private schools?
I agree with @marvin100. You’re comparing apples to oranges on grad rates. Grad rates at UCs may be lower because required classes are hard to get in sequence. I don’t know. I’m just throwing that out there as a possibility. This shouldn’t be a problem for a school with 3,000 students.
Compare Byrant with like schools.
“Grad rates at UCs may be lower because required classes are hard to get in sequence.” (#13)
That’s one reason the metric exists, to identify these types of difficulties.
True, true, and unrelated.
My point is that if the posters are talking up Bryant college and bringing up a statistic (in this case grad rate) in which the school is more favorable than better-known schools, then it is incorrect to do so if comparison is to large public unverisities. Bring up those favorable statistics but do so against like schools.
There’s a reason why some publications list rankings based on the type of schools. It’s more informative to compare relative to peers.
That’s my point. I’m not trying to provide an opinion on the 4-year grad rate statistic itself.
I should have added a sentence, then: “Though this is understood as not relating to your primary point.”
To use one of the OP’s original school comparitors:
U Miami 4 year graduation rate - 68%
For a LAC comparison (though Bryant is NOT a LAC but a regional U):
Rhodes College - 76%
It would seem the graduation rate is similar to a LAC rated in the #50 range by the usual suspect.
You can nitpick the stats all you want, but the bottom line is that Bryant is well respected in the business world, most students like the place, and they have successful outcomes. Bryant competes with and compares favorably to Bentley and Babson (the Three B’s). Lots of kids apply to all three. All three are small schools focused mainly on business, all three produce successful grads. Why Bryant has no page here on CC, for the life of me I can’t understand. There are way more obscure schools with their own page.
You live in RI, have you ever been to the campus?
@Chardo The kid LIVES in RI and has barely heard of it, and you’re wondering why there’s no page for it? Stop making this to be like it’s Wharton or something.
I get it and I believe the hype. It’s a good business school. Problem is no one knows about it outside of business- and even then a company from SoCal will probably pick someone from USC Marshall before Bryant.
Heck I didn’t even know about it until I saw my boss’ bio and had to Google it. I’m from the Midwest so that’s my excuse.