October 23, 2008
Indiana University of Pennsylvania’s Eberly College of Business and Information Technology is included in the The Princeton Review’s Best 296 Business Schools, 2009 edition. This is the fifth consecutive year that the Eberly College has been selected for this annual guidebook.
The guidebook accepts no advertising dollars and uses independent surveys from current students, recent graduates and college officials to determine which colleges and universities merit inclusion. This year’s publication is a reflection of interviews with more than 18,000 business students from across the nation. There are approximately 1,600 schools or colleges of business throughout the United States.
“Being ranked consistently among the top business schools in the nation speaks volumes about our programs, our strong reputation, and the commitment and expertise of our faculty and staff,” Dr. Robert Camp, dean of the Eberly College of Business and Information Technology, said.
“The Eberly College has outstanding faculty and one of the most technologically advanced facilities in the country with more than 600 work stations, eight computing labs, and high-tech classrooms throughout the building.
“The facility includes a forty-four-station financial trading room, which allows students to create hypothetical portfolios and track all purchase and sales transactions in order to gauge performance and document trading strategies. The latest additions at Eberly are a digital production studio and lab where students learn how to create and edit streaming video for training presentations and websites,” Camp said. “Both faculty and students can conduct research using real-time data from markets all over the world.”
Guidebook editors quoted students as saying that “IUP’s MBA program is large enough to be widely recognized by employers, yet small enough to allow for many one-on-one learning experiences.”
Editors also noted that students recognized IUP’s numerous partnerships with overseas schools as providing international exposure and offering “a great fit for international students, since it offers a diverse academic program and environment with the opportunity to interact with students from different parts of the world,” as well as executive Master of Business Administration programs at several urban locations in greater Pittsburgh.
The Eberly College achieved accreditation of its bachelor’s and master’s degree programs in business administration from AACSB International in May 2001. Fewer than one-third of the business schools in the United States and a limited number of schools internationally have earned AACSB International accreditation.
IUP is included in the 2009 edition of The Princeton Review’s The Best 368 Colleges. This is the eighth consecutive year that IUP has been selected for this annual guidebook.
In June 2007, Consumer Digest Magazine selected IUP as number four in the magazine’s rankings of the “Best Values in Public Colleges and Universities.” In February 2007, IUP was ranked 40 out of 100 colleges and universities selected for Kiplinger’s Personal Finance magazine’s “The Kiplinger 100,” a listing of schools that combine outstanding value with a first-class education. IUP’s Robert E. Cook Honors College was the subject of a chapter within Dr. Donald Asher’s Cool Colleges for the Hyperintelligent in 2007.
IUP is a member of the Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education.
