NIU Ranked in U.S. News & World Report 2014 Program Listing
The Northern Illinois University College of Business‘ Part-Time MBA program ranks among the nation’s best by U.S. News & World Report in its 2014 Best Grad Schools in Business listing. NIU came in ranked at 129th best nationally, beating out programs like Pace University, IIT, Iowa State University, and ISU, among others.
Part-time business programs play a vital role for working people who can’t go to school full time because of family or financial reasons.
U.S. News & World Report part-time MBA ranking is based on five factors: average peer assessment score (50 percent of the school’s overall score); the average GMAT score and average GRE quantitative and verbal scores of part-time MBA students entering in fall 2013 (15 percent; their average undergraduate GPA (5 percent); work experience (15 percent); and the percentage of the business school’s fall 2013 MBA enrollment that is part time (15 percent). The statistical data were collected in fall 2013 and early 2014.
The average peer assessment score is calculated from a fall 2013 survey that asked business school deans and MBA program directors at each of the nation’s 310 part-time MBA programs to rate the other part-time programs on a scale from marginal (1) to outstanding (5). Forty-five percent of those surveyed responded.
