Wall Street Journal Ranks UC Davis Among Top Six Business Schools Nationally for Technology, Telecommunications, Internet Industries

Business Wire, Sept 19, 2007

Corporate Recruiters in the Technology, Telecommunications, Internet Industries Rate UC Davis MBA Program #6; School Ranks #29 Overall in Regional Rankings

DAVIS, Calif. -- The UC Davis Graduate School of Management has been named one of the top MBA programs in the country by corporate recruiters surveyed by The Wall Street Journal/Harris Interactive. Recruiters in technology, telecommunications and Internet industries ranked the school 6th in the nation for preparing MBA students. Overall, UC Davis ranked 29th among regional business schools.

The full 2007 rankings can be viewed at: http://www.careerjournal.com/reports/bschool07/

"We've known how well-prepared UC Davis MBA students are," said Nicole Woolsey Biggart, dean of the UC Davis Graduate School of Management. "It's gratifying that recruiters continue to recognize our graduates' excellence as well. The past three years of this ranking show real momentum."

The UC Davis Graduate School of Management ranked 34th among regional business schools in last year's survey and 44th in the 2005 survey. This is the first year UC Davis has been ranked in an industry category.

For its seventh annual ranking of MBA programs, the Wall Street Journal/Harris Interactive surveyed 4,430 MBA recruiters who hire full-time business-school graduates. Recruiters rated schools and their graduates on 21 key attributes, including students' leadership potential and communication skills, perceived quality of the faculty and curriculum, and the responsiveness of the school's career services office. Recruiters were also asked whether they intend to return to a particular school and how likely they are to offer jobs to that school's graduates during the next two years. All interviews were conducted online between Dec. 19, 2006, and March 23, 2007.

About the school

Established in 1981, the UC Davis Graduate School of Management provides management education to nearly 500 students enrolled in Daytime MBA and Working Professional MBA programs on the UC Davis campus in Davis, in Sacramento, and in the San Francisco Bay Area. It also offers a technology management minor for undergraduates and business development programs in which doctoral science students develop skills to commercialize research.