Magazine ranks BYU 8th in business program

PROVO — BusinessWeek magazine ranked Brigham Young University's undergraduate management program eighth overall and first among recruiters in a ranking of U.S. undergraduate business programs.

The magazine cited the program's accounting program and ethics-based education as strengths.

Eighty-four colleges met BusinessWeek's stringent criteria to be considered for the undergraduate business rankings. Colleges were ranked according to five sets of data: a survey of nearly 100,000 students, a recruiter survey, median starting salaries for graduates, the number of graduates admitted to 35 top MBA programs and an academic quality measure that consists of SAT/ACT test scores for business majors, full-time faculty-student ratios in the business program, average class size in core business classes, the percentage of business majors with internships and the number of hours students spend preparing for class each week.

The University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School ranked No. 1 followed by No. 2 University of Virginia, No. 3 Notre Dame, No. 4 MIT, No. 5 Emory, No. 6 Michigan-Ann Arbor, No. 7 NYU, No. 8 BYU, No. 9 Texas-Austin and No. 10 Indiana-Bloomington.

BYU's Marriott School of Management has nationally recognized programs in accounting, business management, entrepreneurship, public management, information systems and organizational behavior.