2:40pm | The College of Business Administration at Cal State Long Beach (CSULB) was named an outstanding business school by the Princeton Review, it was announced this week.
The Review highlighted the school in its three “affordable and efficient MBA programs,” and CSULB’s College of Administration is featured in the Review’s guidebook, “The Best 300 Business Schools: 2011 Edition.”
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The Princeton Review compiled the lists based on the surveys of roughly 19,000 students attending 300 business schools, as well as on school-reported data. The 80-question survey asked students about themselves, their career plans, and their schools’ academics, student body and campus life.
CSULB College of Business Administration was recognized for offering three MBA programs – the Fully Employed MBA; the Self-Paced Evening MBA; and the Accelerated MBA.
The Review states: “Catering to working adults in the Southern California region, these ‘focused, fast-paced, and competitive’ programs are specially designed to help students balance professional and personal commitments while pursuing their educations. To that end, the programs are highly successful, offering a convenient and user-friendly educational experience.”
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“The Princeton Review ranking is significant because it is based on the experiences and opinions of Cal State Long Beach students,” CSULB President F. King Alexander said in a statement. “The faculty and staff in the College of Business Administration have done an excellent job of creating MBA programs that appeal to students, fit their schedules and help them meet their educational and career goals.”
“We are very pleased that the quality of our MBA programs is being recognized by the prestigious Princeton Review,” said Michael Solt, dean for the CSULB College of Business Administration, in a statement. “We firmly believe that we offer our graduate students an outstanding educational value and an excellent degree.”
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“We are pleased to recommend California State University, Long Beach to readers of our book and users of our site (www.PrincetonReview.com) as one of the best institutions they could attend to earn an MBA,” said Robert Franek, Princeton Review senior vice president of publishing, in a statement.