Saturday, November 15, 2008

Rankings and Dedication

BusinessWeek's 2008 business school rankings have been released, and BYU's MBA program has broken into the top 25 for the first time ever! I assume this is because I'm here.

Here are the rankings:

1 Chicago (Booth)
2 Harvard
3 Northwestern (Kellogg)
4 Pennsylvania (Wharton)
5 Michigan (Ross)
6 Stanford
7 Columbia
8 Duke (Fuqua)
9 MIT (Sloan)
10 UC-Berkeley (Haas)
11 Cornell (Johnson)
12 Dartmouth (Tuck)
13 NYU (Stern)
14 UCLA (Anderson)
15 Indiana (Kelley)
16 Virginia (Darden)
17 North Carolina (Kenan-Flagler)
18 Southern Methodist (Cox)
19 Carnegie Mellon (Tepper)
20 Notre Dame (Mendoza)
21 Texas-Austin (McCombs)
22 Brigham Young (Marriott)
23 Emory (Goizueta)
24 Yale
25 USC (Marshall)
26 Maryland (Smith)
27 U. of Washington (Foster)
28 Washington U. (Olin)
29 Georgia Tech
30 Vanderbilt (Owen)


Also, I've been meaning to post about this for the past few weeks, but I keep forgetting: As the Marriott School is getting increased recognition, it is also expanding. This year they opened a new addition which is a huge improvement over the old Tanner Building. There are many new classrooms, high-tech study rooms, a much larger MBA lounge, a much-improved cafe, and lots of extra space.

A couple weeks ago, the First Presidency and a handful of the Quorum of the Twelve came to dedicate the building. In this picture, you can see President Monson greeting students as the dedication ended.


Here's the rest of the First Presidency:


As you can see, there was a large crowd (which is why I was up on the second level):

2 comments:

Micah Bruner said...

Of course, the MBA program doesn't hold a candle to The Law School.

Josi said...

So not only does BYU break into the top 25, but they get new digs because you're there AND the prophet comes for a visit? Not bad, Wells, keep it up.