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Rice University’s Jones Graduate School of Business  today announced plans to launch a new online Master of Business Administration program, subject to Rice Faculty Senate and accreditor approval.* MBA@Rice is designed to prepare the next generation of global leaders to excel in the ever-changing business landscape.

A group of 32 physician trainees from the Texas Medical Center’s leading hospitals gathered at Rice’s Jones Graduate School of Business in April for an intensive 14-day new certificate program designed to impart essential management skills critical to a successful career in medicine and health care.

The Master of Business Administration program at Rice University’s Jones Graduate School of Business is ranked No. 8 (up from No. 19 in 2015) in Bloomberg Businessweek’s new analysis of the best full-time MBA programs in the nation. This marks the MBA program’s first top 10 ranking.

Peter Rodriguez started as dean of Rice University’s Jones Graduate School of Business on July 1.

"The three terms — strategic decision making, critical thinking and ICO," explained Vikas Mittal, J. Hugh Liedtke Professor of Marketing and head of the Energy Initiative at the Jones School, "have very specific meanings." Clarifying those specific meanings is vital.

Peter Rodriguez, currently senior associate dean for degree programs and chief diversity officer at the University of Virginia’s Darden School of Business, has been named dean of Rice University’s Jones Graduate School of Business. He will join Rice as dean of the Jones School on July 1.

Rice University’s Master of Business Administration program implemented a new approach to teaching this past spring to better meet the needs of students and employers and the changing demands of the business education marketplace. The centerpiece of the new Jones Graduate School of Business course, Critical Thinking and Strategic Decision-making, was an integrated team of faculty who focused on learning the elements critical to business leadership.