BusinessWeek Magazine ranked UW-Madison's School of Business undergraduate program 28th nationally and fourth among the Big Ten schools. The magazine ranked 93 undergraduate programs for 2007, compared to the 61 it ranked for 2006, according to BusinessWeek's website.
For 2006, according to a University Communications release, BusinessWeek ranked UW-Madison's program 27th nationwide and fifth in the Big Ten. The extra schools ranked this year may have contributed to UW-Madison slipping one spot nationally, according to the Dean of the School of Business Michael Knetter.
""We consider rankings carefully, but our primary focus is on the fundamentals of our educational programs and student outcomes,"" Knetter told University Communications. ""The caliber of students admitted to our undergraduate program is very high—they are highly sought after by employers.""
According to BusinessWeek's website, the rankings are based primarily on a survey completed by graduating seniors, but also on polls of corporate recruiters, of whom BusinessWeek asked which schools turned out ""the best graduates and which schools have the most innovative curricula and most effective career services.""
The magazine also asked for the starting median salary of each program's most recently graduated class and ""created an academic quality gauge of five equally weighted measures: average [Scholastic Aptitude Test] scores, ratio of full-time faculty to students, average class size, the percentage of business majors with internships and the hours students spend every week on schoolwork.""
UW-Madison's undergraduate School of Business program was also recently ranked 13th nationwide by U.S. News and World Report, according to the release.
