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The Rice University Business Plan Competition Announces 2005 Winning Teams
Business Wire, April 19, 2005
The Jesse H. Jones Graduate School of Management is one of seven academic units of Rice University. Named in honor of the late Jesse Holman Jones, a prominent Houston business and civic leader, the school received its initial funding in 1974 through a major gift from the Houston Endowment Inc., a philanthropic foundation established by Jones and his wife, Mary Gibbs Jones. The school offers the MBA and MBA for Executives degree as well as the following joint degrees: MBA/ME with the George R. Brown School of Engineering and MD/MBA with Baylor College of Medicine. The Jones School also offers a full schedule of non-credit executive education and customized courses for business and industry.
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The Financial Times 2005 ranks the Jones School's MBA program the best in Texas and the Southwest. The Financial Times also ranks the Jones School's MBA for Executives the best in Texas and the Southwest. The Jones School has been ranked among the top ten for finance five out of the last six years and in the top ten for entrepreneurship twice in six years.
The Princeton Review's most recent Best 143 Business Schools ranks the Jones School among the top 10 in "most competitive students" and "greatest opportunity for women."
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