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 company’s Best Business Schools 2025 and follow IUP’s inclusion in the rankings for 2024, 2023, 2022, and 2021.
The rankings for 2025 were based on data from surveys of administrators at 244 business schools and surveys of more than 22,800 students enrolled in the schools’ MBA programs.
This recognition follows Eberly’s MBA program being 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 annual Best Business Schools guidebook since 2005.
“IUP’s Eberly College of Business is very proud of this national recognition,” Eberly College of Business Dean Prashanth Bharadwaj said. “Being recognized among the 213 Best On-Campus MBA Programs is very impressive, especially if you take into consideration that there are more than 1,000 MBA programs in the country,” he said.
“Our focus continues to be on student success and opportunity, including a strong support system of faculty and alumni mentors for our community of scholars. Our students enjoy the unique opportunity of a global and cross-cultural approach that 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,” Dean Bharadwaj said.
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 to focus on professional accountancy, finance, human resource management, international business, or marketing, or complete an MBA in STEM-designated areas of business analytics and supply chain management.
IUP’s Eberly College of Business will launch a new graduate program, a master of science degree in information systems and management, for the spring 2026 semester. The degree is a collaboration between IUP’s Eberly College of Business and the John J. and Char Kopchick College of Natural Sciences and Mathematics.
IUP’s Eberly College of Business has a robust international presence, including programs that offer students the option of completing their MBA in their home country or traveling to IUP’s Indiana, PA, campus for the second year of their MBA program, enhancing the diversity on the IUP campus. IUP’s MBA program in Bangalore, India, in collaboration with PES University since 2005, has graduated over 1,500 alumni who have been successful as executives and entrepreneurs in numerous business sectors all over the world. 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 been sought out for 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 10 percent of 16,000 schools worldwide have achieved this accreditation. IUP has also received the specialized AACSB accreditation in accounting, making it the first to receive this honor among the Pennsylvania State System universities.
The Eberly College of Business includes the departments of Accounting and Information Systems, Finance and Economics, Hospitality and Employment Relations, Management, and Marketing.
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 is the only member of the Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education selected for the “Opportunity College and University-Higher Access, Higher Earnings” designation by the Carnegie Foundation and the American Council on Education, which recognizes institutions with graduates who earn salaries that are 50 percent above (or more) than their peers in similar fields and institutions that provide access to students that reflect the communities that they serve.
Only 20 Pennsylvania public institutions earned the “Higher Access, Higher Earnings” designation, and only 16 percent (479) of colleges and universities in the nation earned the recognition, which was also open to career-focused area institutions.
IUP offers 100 academic majors, 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, geospatial intelligence, and public history.
IUP has a longstanding commitment to research on all levels and in all disciplines. In spring 2025, IUP earned an R2 Doctoral University–High Spending and Doctorate Production classification from the American Council on Education and the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching in its 2025 Research Activity designations, one of only two public universities in Pennsylvania and one of only 97 public universities with this ranking nationwide. IUP first received the R2 ranking in 2022.
Only six universities in Pennsylvania hold the R2 status, and only 139 universities in the United States have the R2 status. More than 3,900 colleges and universities are included in the ranking system.
Since its founding in 1875, IUP has evolved from a teacher-training institution into a doctoral research university recognized for its commitment to student success and achievement. As IUP celebrates its 150th anniversary in 2025, the university honors a legacy of educational excellence while looking toward a future of innovation, leadership in healthcare education, and public service.