RIT Named to Princeton Review’s top MBA programs

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A. Sue Weisler

“We are very proud of our inclusion in the 2015 edition of The Princeton Review,” said Saunders College Interim Dean Jacqueline Mozrall.

Rochester Institute of Technology’s Saunders College of Business is an outstanding business school to earn an MBA, according to The Princeton Review. The New York-based education services company has selected the school for inclusion in the 2015 edition of its annual guidebook The Best 296 Business Schools (Random House/Princeton Review, 2015 Editions, $22.99), now available in bookstores.

“We are very proud of our inclusion in the 2015 edition of The Princeton Review,” said Saunders College Interim Dean Jacqueline Mozrall. “Business is our business. We offer a great blend of management and technical education taught by world-class professors who have significant corporate backgrounds and still work as consultants for major companies.

“More importantly, our faculty know students by their name, take an interest in their lives, while creating rich and useful academic experiences to prepare them for the practicalities of the workplace through internships and team-based projects.”

According to Robert Franek, senior vice president and publisher of The Princeton Review, “We consider RIT’s Saunders College of Business as one of the best institutions a student could attend to earn an MBA. We selected the schools we profile in this book—280 of which are in the United States and 16 are international—based on our high regard for their academic programs and our reviews of institutional data we collect from the schools.”

Further evidence is listed in the Saunders College profile as cited by The Princeton Review editors: “RIT’s MBA program provides a great blend of management and technical education. A major benefit is the wide array of concentrations offered—digital marketing, quality and applied statistics and environmentally sustainable management, as well as traditional business fields like accounting and supply chain management.”

Students in the program told The Princeton Review that they enjoy the emphasis on the fast-paced, challenging and vigorous schedule with RIT instructors who have significant corporate experience and tie it well with academics to offer an enriched experience.

RIT’s MBA students come from about 20 different countries to create a diverse and global environment. Some of the comments from students attending are: “The students are friendly and very focused when it comes to school but don’t shy away from playing the occasional poker game now and then.” Or as another full-time student says, “The whole campus has Wi-Fi and you can even find plugs near picnic tables and other outdoor locations for your laptop.”

The Best 296 Business Schools has two-page profiles of the schools with write-ups on academics, student life and admissions, plus ratings for academics, selectivity and career placement services. The Princeton Review does not name a best business school overall or rank the schools on a hierarchical list from 1 to 296.

Note: Saunders College of Business is one of nine colleges at Rochester Institute of Technology and accredited by the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business International (AACSB). Enrolling more than 1,000 undergraduate and graduate students, Saunders College works in partnership with RIT’s entrepreneurial Venture Creations incubator and the Albert J. Simone Center for Student Innovation and Entrepreneurship to integrate business education with RIT’s world-leading technical and creative programs. Graduate programs include Master of Business Administration, MBA-Accounting, Executive MBA and master’s degrees in finance and administration.