IUP Eberly College of Business MBA Program Selected as Best Business School by Princeton Review

Indiana University of Pennsylvania's Eberly College of Business Master of Business Administration on-campus program has been selected as one of the top programs in the nation by the Princeton Review.

The rankings were included in the publication's Best Business Schools 2024 and follow the program's ranking in the Best Business Schools for 2021, 2022, and 2023.

Editors selected programs based on institutional data and surveys of students attending the schools who rate and report on their experiences.

The 2024 rankings are uniquely based on data the company gathers from its surveys of administrators at the schools as well as surveys of students attending the schools who rate and report on their experiences at them.

The rankings for 2024 were based on data from surveys of administrators at 409 business schools and surveys of 32,200 students enrolled in the schools' MBA programs.

This recognition follows Eberly's MBA program ranked first in Pennsylvania by Best Value Schools, recognized for value and programs that provide "a more personalized education, and thus a better education," editors said.

In addition to ongoing recognition of the MBA program, the Eberly College of Business has been cited in the Princeton Review's Best Business Schools guidebook since 2005.

"Since we debuted our b-school rankings in 2004 in multiple categories as opposed to a single list, our goal has been to help b-school bound students identify the MBA program best for them," said Rob Franek, the Princeton Review's editor-in-chief.

"The schools that made our list for 2024 all have impressive individual distinctions. 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."

"It is an honor to be consistently recognized by a reputed publication like Princeton Review," Prashanth Bharadwaj, interim dean of the Eberly College of Business, said.

"The MBA program at the Eberly College of Business has a global and cross-cultural focus and provides students with cutting-edge tools required to succeed in today's business environment. Students not only learn from our expert faculty but also by interacting regularly with our experienced alumni and business partners."

IUP's MBA program allows students to complete an MBA on a full-time or part-time basis. Full-time study can be completed in about one year; students can start the program in the fall or spring semester. Students can also select a concentration in professional accountancy, information systems, finance, human resource management, international business, marketing, or in the STEM-designated area of supply chain management.

IUP's Eberly College of Business has a robust international presence, including programs that offer student the option of completing their MBA in their home country or traveling to IUP's Indiana campus for the second year of their MBA program, enhancing the diversity on the IUP campus. Eberly's MBA program routinely attracts students from many regions of the world, including Europe, Asia, the Middle East, Latin America, and sub-Saharan Africa.

IUP MBA students consistently win national awards, working in teams on business case studies through the Small Business Institute. Scholarships and graduate assistantship awards of up to 50 percent of tuition are available to qualified full-time students.

The top five employers hiring IUP MBA graduates are BNY Mellon, IBM, Prudential, BNP Paribus, and Ernst & Young. IUP MBA graduates have also accepted positions at companies such as Dow Chemical, Citizens Bank, Accenture, Coca-Cola, Deloitte & Touche, PNC Bank, GE, Merrill Lynch, PPG, Renault, Rockwell International, Siemens, and more.

IUP's Eberly College is accredited by AACSB-International, the longest-standing, most recognized form of specialized or professional accreditation an institution and its business programs can earn. Less than 5 percent of 16,000 schools worldwide achieve this accreditation. IUP also recently received the specialized AACSB accreditation in accounting, making it the first to receive this honor among the Pennsylvania State System universities.

For more than two decades, IUP has been a fixture in Princeton Review's Best Colleges guidebook, which selects universities based on surveys and interviews with students. Students tell guidebook editors that IUP is a place of "truly stellar academic departments" and "Professors feel like family and express that they genuinely care about the students outside of just the classroom situation."

IUP offers 100 academic majors, including more than 60 graduate programs and more than 40 graduate degrees. In addition, students can complete more than 70 minors -including a unique teamwork minor-and scores of specialized tracks and certificate programs, including certificates in athletic coaching, photography and digital imaging, popular music, and public history.

IUP continues to add state-of-the-art programs of study for its students. Its newest undergraduate majors are public health and environmental engineering, both in-demand careers in Pennsylvania and throughout the nation, and a unique part-time PhD in business designed especially for working professionals.

IUP has a longstanding commitment to research on all levels and in all disciplines. In 2021, IUP was selected as one of only two public universities in Pennsylvania and one of only 93 public universities in the United States selected for the "High Research Activity" designation by the Carnegie Classification of Higher Institutions of Higher Education.

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