McIntire School of Commerce, ranked No.2 by BusinessWeek

<p>according to business week's first undergraduate business school ranking, we are only second to wharton!</p>

<p>link? (10)</p>

<p>Untilted is right. Here's the link:</p>

<p><a href="http://bwnt.businessweek.com/bschools/undergraduate/06rankings/%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://bwnt.businessweek.com/bschools/undergraduate/06rankings/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

<ol>
<li>Wharton (Penn)</li>
<li>McIntire (UVa)</li>
<li>Notre Dame</li>
<li>MIT</li>
<li>Emory</li>
<li>Michigan</li>
<li>NYU</li>
<li>BYU</li>
<li>Texas</li>
<li>Indiana</li>
<li>UNC</li>
<li>UC Berkeley</li>
<li>Georgetown</li>
<li>Cornell</li>
<li>Washington U.</li>
</ol>

<p>damn thats pretty amazing</p>

<p>well played, uva, well played ;-)</p>

<p>As I was perusing the Business Week site, I particularly liked this comment from a 4th year Comm student:</p>

<p>"At my internship this summer, I was often complimented on my command of accounting, writing, and speaking, often over the interns who had attended Ivy League schools. I would heartily recommend my program to someone interested in business because not only are hard skills like financial modeling and accounting stressed, but students learn in a positive, non-competitive environment, which encourages leadership in extracurricular activities and having a social life."</p>

<p>Sounds good to me. I'm not a big fan of undergraduate business, but it looks like this ranking is among the more substantive rankings that have been published. It takes into account a variety of factors, and Business Week seems to have done its research, as evidenced by their well-selected quotes :) .</p>

<p>Congratulations Uva!</p>

<p>when my business teacher showed our class the rankings I was a bit surprised. i knew it was good but #2 wow, very reassuring considering Im going to UVA and hope to enter McIntire. But then again these rankings ranked JMU at #35 so i question their methodology. How can JMU with basically every column worse than UMD-college park be ranked above them?</p>

<p>Anybody know what the ranking was last year? I believe it was top 10, but not number 2 in the country. That's way cool!</p>

<p>spicoli, this is the first year that Business Week has done this ranking. The other one you're thinking of is USNews, which uses a less comprehensive methodology.</p>

<p>Please note this is NOT the first year Business Week has done the ranking of undergraduate business schools. I am aware they have done it before in the previous years because last year, I myself used this ranking for my IB business coursework to evaluate "best-value" schools using the discounting method.</p>

<p>dude, don't knock JMU ;)</p>

<p>Oh really? I guess I had seen it elsewhere that it was their first year with ugrad rankings. My bad.</p>

<p>"Our first-ever ranking of the Top 50 undergraduate programs in the U.S. finds a depth of academic rigor and a degree in fine fettle"</p>

<p><a href="http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/toc/06_19/B3983magazine.htm%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/toc/06_19/B3983magazine.htm&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

<p>It's first-ever ranking of the TOP50...They did a Top 25 ranking when I used that for my business coursework back last year.</p>

<ol>
<li>NYU</li>
<li>BYU</li>
</ol>

<p>Wow</p>

<p>"It's first-ever ranking of the TOP50...They did a Top 25 ranking when I used that for my business coursework back last year."</p>

<p>i want that top25 list, for undergrad!</p>