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4 NEWS
the Rice Thresher
Friday, April 9,2010
Jones school ranks top 15 °£R!FN
by Kevin Lin
Thresher Staff
With another rise in the rank-
ings, the Jesse H. Jones Graduate
School of Business has proven that
it means business.
The Jones School was ranked in the
top 15 in The Princeton Review's "Student
Opinion Honors for Business Schools" fi-
nance category. Other categories ranked
include programs with the highest stu-
dent evaluations in the accounting,
finance, general management, global
management, marketing and operation
categories. Schools are listed alphabeti-
cally, rather than individually ranked
from 1 to 15. The results will appear in this
month's issue of Entrepreneur magazine.
Dean of the Jones School William
Glick said the school has always done
very well in rankings — it ranked
53rd in the world last year, according
to the Financial Times — especially in
categories like financing and entre-
preneurship, which both have been
ranked among the top in the nation.
"This particular ranking is unique
because it comes from the students,"
Glick said. "It's the students' report on
what they got out of the program."
The 8o-question Princeton Review
survey was taken by 19,000 business
school students from around the
country at 301 different universities.
The students were asked to rate their
classroom and campus experiences,
provided by the Jones School. The stu-
dents ranked how well they felt their
school's courses had prepared them
on a five-point scale, according to The
Princeton Review.
While these rankings only cover
MBA programs, the same faculty that
teach MBA program classes also teach
the business minor classes at Rice. These
classes have done very well in students'
course evaluations. For example, BUSI
296: Business Communications,scored
a 1.44 out of five for course quality on a
scale from 1 to 5, where 1 is outstanding
and five is poor, compared to the Rice
average, 1.93. Classes such as this will
be scaled to accommodate more people
in the future, Glick said.
Glick attributed The Princeton Re-
view rankings to focusing on hiring
good faculty and having open discus-
sions about the curriculum.
"It's a proven process," Glick said.
"You get really bright people engag-
ing in good conversations, engaging
in their research and it's that mix that
really makes a difference."
Glick sees a strong doctorate
program as an important player in
the Jones School's expansion. The
school is already on track to launch
multiple doctorate programs in both
finance and accounting. The finance
program, which will launch next
year, already has 300 applicants for
six seats. Of the applicants who took
the GRE, half got perfect scores on
the quantitative side, Glick said.
Glick said the Jones School has
achieved its current prominence by fo-
cusing on leadership and communica-
tion and by understanding the big pic-
ture. As such, graduates from the Jones
School typically do much better three
years after graduation compared to stu-
dents from other MBA programs, and
are much more likely to be promoted.
"I feel we're on a very strong trajecto-
ry," Glick said. "You start with fundamen-
tals, you get good faculty, you develop
programs and good things happen. We've
not done this by focusing on rankings but
focusing on what people care about."
MBA student Wasim Patel agrees
with Dean Glick's sentiments.
"I think Jones has a very good fac-
ulty," Patel said. "It has a very good stu-
dent body, and I think we're finally get-
ting the recognition that we deserve, so
I think in the coming days we can look
forward to higher rankings."
program. St. Lawrence's director of
sustainability checked each dorm and
assigned it a green score. However, she
said the Green Dorm Initiative differs
from its predecessor.
"It's really interesting, because
this was not something you volun-
teered for; it was mandatory and
you had one person doing the entire
program and checking everyone's
room," Sagestegui said. "We've
moved away from that and moved
toward an honor-based system."
Students have been developing
the program for more than four years
but ran into challenges with fund-
ing for prizes. Kwan said they ap-
plied for a Student Activities Fund, a
President's Programming Fund and
a Community Service Grant from the
Community Involvement Center.
This is the first campus-wide run of
the program and the latest implemen-
tation since it was piloted last fall.
One of the biggest challenges of the
program is getting participants to fol-
low through and complete their log,
Sagestegui said. Although approxi-
mately 50 students signed up for the
pilot program, only 20 completed it. To
encourage students to follow through,
Sagastegui said clearer due dates have
been set for the log.
Brown senior Denver Greene,
who was in charge of the pilot pro-
gram last semester, said another
challenge was consolidating the
forms. The new forms are available
at ricegreendorm.wordpress.com.
Sagestegui said she would like to
make the Green Dorm Initiative an event
that happens at the beginning of each
semester to promote green behavior
among students. Currently, anybody
who lives on campus is eligible to par-
ticipate in the program, but in the future
Sagastegui said she would like to set up
a certification process for off-campus
students, as well. Kwan said they also
might tailor the questions to be more
specific for each college so that the certi-
fication process is more fairly balanced.
"They can reexamine their behav-
ior and actions and think about how
they're improving so that they can re-
visit that, and it's something to think
about," Sagestegui said.
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