Out of 97 undergraduate business schools, the Boston College Carroll School of Management landed at #13 in the latest Poets&Quants ranking鈥攁nd led the pack in teaching quality, according to alumni.
In this annual ranking, schools are of admissions standards, alumni surveys, and employment outcomes. Surveys go out to thousands of alumni who are two years out of school.
鈥淪o which school鈥檚 faculty got the best marks this year? That would be the faculty at Boston College鈥檚 Carroll School, which earned a 9.46,鈥� according to the聽, referring to teaching quality. The report also pegged the Carroll School at #6 on the question put to alumni, 鈥淲ould you recommend the business program to a close friend or colleague?鈥� Moreover, close to 94 percent of Carroll School grads were employed within 90 days of graduation, with an average starting total compensation of $76,508.
The Carroll School shares space in the P&Q top 20 with elite B-schools such as #8 Dyson (Cornell) and #9 Kenan-Flagler (University of North Carolina). Overall, in the publication鈥檚 grading system, the Carroll School earned a score of 91.28 out of 100. Only Wharton at the University of Pennsylvania scored 100.
Founded in 2014 by John A. Byrne鈥攁 former executive editor of BusinessWeek and editor-in-chief of Fast Company鈥�Poets&Quants has quickly become a highly influential online publication devoted to covering business education. Its list of the聽Best Undergraduate B-Schools Of 2020 for the coming year was released on December 20.
One way in which all the schools came out winners: Poets&Quants found that business has remained the most popular undergraduate major in the U.S.
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