Pitt Business: Joseph M. Katz Graduate School of Business & College of Business Administration

Press Release

May 1, 2007

University of Pittsburgh College of Business Administration Ranked Among the Nation’s Top 50 Undergraduate Business Schools by BusinessWeek Magazine

In the magazine’s inaugural survey of undergraduate business schools, Pitt’s CBA placed 21st among public institutions

PITTSBURGH—When the May 8 issue of BusinessWeek magazine hit newsstands today, the University of Pittsburgh’s College of Business Administration (CBA) was ranked among the top 50 private and public undergraduate business schools in the country. In this, Businessweek’s first ranking of undergraduate schools of business, CBA ranked 21st among public institutions with undergraduate schools of business.

“To succeed in the ranking, which incorporates five measures of student engagement, postgraduation outcomes, and academic quality, schools must be firing on all cylinders,” said BusinessWeek’s Kimberly Quinn.

To rank the best business programs in America, BusinessWeek teamed up with Boston’s Cambria Consulting and identified 84 colleges that met stringent quality criteria, then surveyed nearly 100,000 business majors, asking them to rate their programs on everything from curriculum and faculty to facilities and grading policies. To find out how students fared after graduation, the team surveyed 2,000 recruiters and studied starting salaries.

According to Quinn, “The undergraduate business degree is now clearly on the path to respectability. Business majors have fared better than any other discipline, with starting salaries up more than 49 percent [on average] since 1996, compared with 39 percent for engineering students and 29 percent for liberal arts [graduates].”

BusinessWeek’s complete ranking of the Top 50 Undergraduate Business Schools is available in the May 8 issue of BusinessWeek magazine, on newsstands today. A complete list of the top undergraduate business schools also is available on the Web at http://www.businessweek.com/bschools/undergraduate/index.html, along with school profiles, a questions and answers section, and interactive tools.