The U.S. News & World Report recently announced its 2014 graduate business school rankings. Out of the qualifying 127 full-time MBA programs participating this year, Pepperdine University’s Graziadio School of Business and Management’s MBA program in Malibu jumped 20 places nationally to take the #76 spot. Additionally, out of the 282 part-time MBA programs that qualified to participate this year, the Fully Employed MBA placed #61 nationally.The report also announced that employment at graduation among full-time students improved from 3- percent for the Class of 2012 to 50-percent for 2013 graduates. Employment three months after graduation also improved from 60-percent for 2012 to nearly 68-percent for the Class of 2013.
The Graziadio School is one of only eight part-time MBA programs in the state of California to continue to earn a place in these ranking.
In addition to the U.S. News & World Report rankings, last fall’s Bloomberg Businessweek’s global assessment of Executive MBA programs placed Graziadio School at #23, a jump of eight places from the previous year. Businessweek placed the Fully Employed MBA program at #12 for the Western U.S. region and #50 globally.
2013 graduating Executive MBA and Presidents and Key Executives MBA program students helped the Graziadio School score #17 in the graduate poll rank category, as well as an A+ for curriculum, A for academic support and B grade for teaching.
