MBA programs from Rice University’s Jones Graduate School of Business have been ranked in the top five of The Princeton Review’s Best Business Schools rankings for 2024. The university ranked No. 5 on the Best MBA for Finance list, rating in the top 10 for the seventh consecutive year. Rice’s online MBA landed at No. 4 on the list of Top 50 Online MBA Programs, marking the program’s third straight year in the top five.
Rice was the only university in Texas to be ranked in the top 10 in both of these categories.
“These rankings are indicative of the high-quality education offered through all of our MBA programs. Students studying finance at Rice Business are taught by faculty whose research and expertise enhances core classes and hard skills, so students are not just prepared to be successful in their careers, but they are also prepared to think critically about their roles and to lead in their industry,” said Peter Rodriguez, dean of Rice Business. “These rankings are also indicative of our broader approach: offering students flexibility in their pursuit of an MBA, while retaining the experience of studying with world-class faculty — no matter what program they choose.”
Rice also achieved high rankings in other specialty categories. It climbed into the top 10 for having the Greatest Resources for Women, ranking No. 8. In addition, the university ranked No. 10 for having the Greatest Resources for Minority Students.
The Princeton Review’s 2024 business school rankings are uniquely based on data the company gathers from its surveys of administrators at 409 business schools as well as surveys of 32,200 students enrolled in the schools’ MBA programs.
“The schools that made our list for 2024 all have impressive individual distinctions,” said Rob Franek, The Princeton Review’s editor-in-chief. “What they share are three characteristics that broadly informed our criteria for these rankings: outstanding academics, robust experiential learning components and excellent career services. Equally impressive to us — and probably to prospective applicants — is that every one of our best b-schools for 2024 garnered highly favorable ratings among its MBA students we surveyed.”
The complete ranking lists are posted at www.princetonreview.com/best-business-schools, along with The Princeton Review’s in-depth profiles of the schools and its ratings of the schools on topics from admissions selectivity to academic experience.
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Rice University’s Jones Graduate School of Business has moved up in the ranks to No. 5 nationally for its online Master of Business Administration program, according to Poets&Quants’ rankings released today. The program was ranked sixth last year.
Tommy Pan Fang, assistant professor of strategic management at Rice Business, has been named to Poets&Quants’ list of 50 Best Undergraduate Professors. Pan Fang was chosen from among 1,000 nominations, and at age 30, he is one of the youngest professors on the list.
“While I enjoyed all of my professors, Dr. Tommy Pan Fang stood out as the most engaging, thought-provoking, and intelligent,” says student Paul Gregory who will graduate with the class of 2026.
