Graduating seniors surveyed by Bloomberg Businessweek helped put the Naveen Jindal School of Management undergraduate program among the nation’s top 20 in five academic disciplines and among the top 25 in five other fields.

In all, the school placed highly in 10 of the 14 subjects included in the publication’s 2012 specialty area rankings:

  • No. 4 in operations management.
  • No. 14 in macro economics.
  • No. 15 in information systems.
  • No. 17 in business law.
  • No. 19 in micro economics.
  • No. 20 in marketing.
  • No. 21 in corporate strategy.
  • No. 21 in sustainability.
  • No. 25 in accounting.
  • No 25 in quantitative methods.

JSOM student responses put four other disciplines in the top 50: No. 26 in finance, No. 31 in entrepreneurship, No. 38 in ethics and No. 43 in international business.

The results are based on Bloomberg Businessweek’s annual survey of more than 85,000 seniors at 124 business schools. The online surveyhad a 32 percent response rate.

Information systems is a new specialty area, added to the rankings survey this year. It takes the place of calculus, which was removed from the rankings survey.

Two schools, the University of Virginia and Emory University, each had 11 specialty areas that ranked in the top 25.

The Jindal School at UT Dallas was one of five schools with 10 specialty areas in the top 25.

Adding the specialty area rankings across all 14 disciplines, JSOM had a summary score of 318, placing it fifth overall. The other top schools and their scores were: Notre Dame, 227; the University of Virginia, 229; the University of Miami, 287; and Emory, 312.

“Across a broad spectrum of subjects important to business students, we fared very well,” JSOM Dean and Caruth Chair of Management Hasan Pirkul said. “That is gratifying because we strive to deliver excellence in all courses and all programs.”

“Because they are based on responses from students about to complete our undergraduate program, these rankings tell it like it is to potential students,” said JSOM Associate Dean for Undergraduate Programs Marilyn Kaplan. “While I am glad the Class of 2012 thought well of our efforts, I hope we impress the classes to come even more.”


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The Naveen Jindal School of Management was one of five schools in the nation to have 10 specialty areas rank in the Bloomberg Businessweek top 25.

 

Dean Hasan Pirkul   Marilyn Kaplan
The results impressed JSOM School Dean Hasan Pirkul and Associate Dean Marilyn Kaplan, who heads the school’s undergraduate programs.