Many students come to college in hopes of earning a better education. To get an even higher level of education, many choose to take the extra step and opt in to a five-year MBA program.
On Jan. 9, the U.S. News and World Report published “Best Online Degree Programs: MBA,” ranking all the best MBA programs with Oswego State sitting on top of all of New York state.
Through these rankings, Oswego State’s MBA program has achieved great success in many areas. It was ranked first in New York state and 33rd nationally.
Oswego State was the only college in New York state to be placed within the top 100. It also ranks above schools such as Clarkson, Hofstra, Marist, RIT and Syracuse.
This news has not only earned the praise of the students, but also the faculty that work hard to keep the program up and running. Oswego State’s MBA director, Irene Scruton, said the MBA program will continue to grow and become even better.
“The school of business strives for and continues to exceed or meet benchmarks for the most comprehensive ranking in the industry,” Scruton said in an article on Oswego’s Communication and Marketing webpage.
Even Deborah Stanley, president of Oswego State, was pleased with the MBA program’s ranking.
“It reflects the expertise of our faculty, the individualized student support services provided, the quality of our MBA students, the strength of the college’s instructional design team, and our commitment to and investment in online learning,” Stanley said in an article on Oswego’s Communication and Marketing webpage.
According to the U.S. News and World report website, the rankings are based off five categories: student engagement, based on how user-friendly the programs were and how easy it was for students to interact with professors and other students; admission selectivity, based on how prepared the students were to take on the classwork and how qualified they were for the real world after the course ended; peer reputation, based on the quality of the program and how valuable future employers considered the programs to be; faculty credentials and training, based on the qualifications of the professors teaching the courses and the resources available to them to help teach the course; and finally, student service and technology, based on the flexibility of the courses and the support structures provided for the students.
Oswego State’s MBA program is already well known for some of its other achievements in the past. In April 2017, Oswego’s MBA program was ranked fifth on a U.S. News Short List of top MBA programs, enrolling the highest percentage of women. Most recently, Oswego State’s commitment to helping out its business partners led to a creation of a partnership with SRC, Inc., based out of Syracuse, that led to 21 employees earning an MBA in June 2017.
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