Message-ID: <17480884.1075840749696.JavaMail.evans@thyme> Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2002 07:58:24 -0800 (PST) From: dthomas@rice.edu To: vkamins@enron.com Subject: Financial Times Rankings, 2002 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-From: @ENRON X-To: vkamins@ENRON.COM X-cc: X-bcc: X-Folder: \vkamins\Deleted Items X-Origin: KAMINSKI-V X-FileName: vincent kaminski 1-30-02.pst Financial Times Rankings 2002 Jones School: The Best in Texas! The Financial Times released its 2002 rankings of the world's hundred best business schools on January 21, 2002. Rice's Jesse H. Jones Graduate School of Management is the highest ranked business school in Texas and in the region. The Jones School is steadily climbing in the rankings. Our overall ranking is 24th in the U.S. (56 U.S. schools), compared to a ranking of 35 (of 51 U.S. schools) in 2001. Our 2002 world ranking is 38, compared to 55 last year. The Financial Times uses 22 categories to determine the rankings. The rank of a school is determined by its performance in three broad areas: the career progression accrued from the MBA-particularly its purchasing power in the marketplace (55 %); diversity of experience (20%), and the schools research qualities (25%). Texas Texas and Region Finance Program Women Faculty and Students Value for Money Salary Percentage Increase International Mobility of Alumni Aims Achieved Faculty with Doctorates U.S. Placement Success International Students International Board Members TEXAS Jones, Rice 24 McCombs, UT, Austin 26 Cox, SMU 31 Texas A&M 54 TEXAS AND REGION Jones 24 McCombs 26 Olin, Washington University 27 Cox 31 Arizona State 34 Tulane 40 Brigham Young 44 University of Arizona 48 Texas A & M 54 The Finance Program was once again cited as one of the top 10 programs in the world. WORLD'S TOP FINANCE PROGRAMS Chicago GSB Stern, New York University Wharton, University of Pennsylvania Columbia GSB Simon, University of Rochester Yale School of Management Jones, Rice University University of Notre Dame Rotman, University of Toronto London Business School The Jones School was ranked 4th among the top 10 schools (2nd among private business schools) in the U.S. for women faculty and women students (3rd among privates). The school tied for a 43rd ranking in the U.S., 25th among American private business schools, and tied for 81st in the world for the Percentage of Women Board Members. WOMEN FACULTY (Jones tied for 11th in the world) Thunderbird University of California, Irvine University of Arizona Jones Goizueta, Emory University Olin, Babson Pamplin, Virginia Tech University of Michigan Johnson, Cornell University McDonough, Georgetown University WOMEN STUDENTS (Jones tied for 15th in the world) Katz, University of Pittsburgh William & Mary University Fisher, Ohio State University Jones Stanford GSB Harvard University of California, Davis Columbia Stern Terry, University of Georgia The School tied for 12th in the U.S. for Value for Money and tied for 37th in the world. Among private business schools, the Jones school ranked 6th in the U.S. In the category Salary Percentage Increase Jones ranked 13th in the U.S. and 15th in the world. Among private business schools it ranked 11th. The ranking for Salary Today is 27th in the U.S., 28th in the world, and 17th among private business schools in the U.S. Weighted Salary was 24th in the U.S., 30th in the world, and 17th among private schools. The International Mobility of Its Alumni, based on 1998 graduates, gave Jones a tied for 19th ranking in the U.S., a tied for 13th place among American private business schools, and a tied for 59th in the world. VALUE FOR MONEY Katz Owen, Vanderbilt University Fuqua, Duke University Brigham Young University William & Mary Jones Chicago Simon Boston University Wharton For Aims Achieved, the Jones School was 20th in the U.S., and 29th in the world. Among private U.S. schools it ranked 10th. AIMS ACHIEVED Harvard Chicago Johnson Stanford Brigham Young Wake Forest Georgetown Goizueta William & Mary Jones The Percentage of Jones School Faculty with Doctorates tied the School for 21st in the U.S. and tied for 26th in the world. Among private American schools, the Jones School tied for 12th. The School was ranked 69th in Faculty Research, up from 75th last year. The Jones School is 25th in the U.S. for Placement Success, 15th among American privates, and 30th in the world. For Career Progress we are ranked 31st in the U.S., 21st among American privates, 56th in the world. In the category Employed at Three Months the Jones School ranked 39th in the U.S., 23rd among private American schools, and 70th in the world. International Students, tied for 30th in the U.S., tied for 23rd among American privates, tied for 69th in the world. The Percentage of International Board Members earned the School a tied for 36th rank in the U.S., tied it for a 22nd ranking among American private business schools, and tied it for a 75th place in the world. For the Percentage of International Faculty the Jones School was tied for 50th in the U.S., was 29th among American private schools, and tied for 93rd in the world. Questions, comments about these rankings, contact Debra J. Thomas, Director of Public Relations, 713-348-4363, dthomas@rice.edu .