SKILL DEVELOPMENT
We asked alumni to rate their program’s effectiveness at instilling both soft and business skills:
- How would you rate the opportunities given to you in the business program to nurture and improve your soft skills in business (verbal and written communication skills, adaptability, delegation, time management, etc.)?
- How well did the extra-curricular opportunities offered to you in the business program nurture and improve your skills in business?
School |
Improving Soft Skills |
Improve Business Skills |
Average |
| University of Virginia (McIntire) | 9.87 | 9.33 | 9.60 |
| Texas Christian University (Neeley) | 9.7 | 9.43 | 9.57 |
| Indiana University (Kelley) | 9.49 | 9.34 | 9.42 |
| Cornell University (Dyson SC John) | 9.57 | 9.24 | 9.41 |
| University of Pennsylvania (Wharton) | 9.49 | 9.21 | 9.35 |
| Fordham University (Gabelli) | 9.5 | 9.17 | 9.34 |
| University of Southern California (Marshall) | 9.32 | 9.3 | 9.31 |
| Washington University in St. Louis (Olin) | 9.35 | 9.12 | 9.24 |
| Georgia Institute of Technology (Scheller) | 9.34 | 9.12 | 9.23 |
| University of Notre Dame (Mendoza) | 9.22 | 9.22 | 9.22 |
| Georgetown University (McDonough) | 9.32 | 9.07 | 9.20 |
| Southern Methodist University (Cox) | 9.27 | 9.05 | 9.16 |
| Marian University (Byrum) | 9.53 | 8.74 | 9.14 |
| Miami University (Farmer) | 9.19 | 9.07 | 9.13 |
| University of Michigan (Ross) | 9.2 | 9.06 | 9.13 |
| New York University (Stern) | 9.14 | 9.09 | 9.12 |
| Villanova University | 9.23 | 8.98 | 9.11 |
| Seton Hall University (Stillman) | 9.09 | 9.11 | 9.10 |
| University of North Carolina (Kenan-Flagler) | 9.2 | 9 | 9.10 |
| Elon University (Love) | 9.21 | 8.98 | 9.10 |
| University of Pittsburgh | 9.13 | 9.06 | 9.10 |
| University of Miami (Herbert) | 9.12 | 9.04 | 9.08 |
| Wake Forest University | 9.13 | 8.97 | 9.05 |
| Roger Williams University (Gabelli) | 9.31 | 8.77 | 9.04 |
| University of Illinois (Gies) | 9.06 | 9.01 | 9.04 |
| William & Mary (Mason) | 9.31 | 8.69 | 9.00 |
| Texas A&M University (Mays) | 9.08 | 8.7 | 8.89 |
| University of Tennessee (Haslam) | 8.96 | 8.79 | 8.88 |
| Emory University (Goizueta) | 9.19 | 8.54 | 8.87 |
| Michigan State University (Broad) | 8.96 | 8.74 | 8.85 |
| Binghamton University | 8.97 | 8.69 | 8.83 |
| University of Houston (Bauer) | 8.91 | 8.75 | 8.83 |
| Saint Louis University (Chaifetz) | 8.96 | 8.69 | 8.83 |
| University of Richmond (Robins) | 8.95 | 8.69 | 8.82 |
| University of Arizona (Eller) | 9.09 | 8.53 | 8.81 |
| University of Dayton | 8.93 | 8.69 | 8.81 |
| Lipscomb University | 9.12 | 8.47 | 8.80 |
| University of Evansville (Schroeder) | 9 | 8.5 | 8.75 |
| Ithaca College | 8.82 | 8.64 | 8.73 |
| Bowling Green State University (Schmidthorst) | 8.81 | 8.64 | 8.73 |
| Ohio University | 8.86 | 8.56 | 8.71 |
| Providence College | 9.14 | 8.24 | 8.69 |
| University of New Hampshire (Paul) | 8.84 | 8.53 | 8.69 |
| Bucknell University | 8.71 | 8.62 | 8.67 |
| Purdue University (Daniels) | 8.83 | 8.49 | 8.66 |
| University of Wisconsin-Madison | 8.58 | 8.71 | 8.65 |
| Duquesne University (Palumbo Donahue) | 8.76 | 8.48 | 8.62 |
| Hult International Business School | 8.91 | 8.33 | 8.62 |
| University of Georgia (Terry) | 8.59 | 8.58 | 8.59 |
| Hofstra University (Zarb) | 8.61 | 8.55 | 8.58 |
| Northeastern University (D’Amore-McKim) | 8.81 | 8.33 | 8.57 |
| University of San Diego (Knauss) | 8.77 | 8.36 | 8.57 |
| University of Washington (Foster) | 8.8 | 8.31 | 8.56 |
| Loyola Marymount University | 8.73 | 8.3 | 8.52 |
| University of Oklahoma (Price) | 8.45 | 8.54 | 8.50 |
| University of South Carolina (Darla Moore) | 8.63 | 8.3 | 8.47 |
| Boston University (Questrom) | 8.74 | 8.17 | 8.46 |
| University of Minnesota (Carlson) | 8.59 | 8.21 | 8.40 |
| University of North Carolina-Wilmington (Cameron) | 8.61 | 8.19 | 8.40 |
| Florida Southern College | 8.22 | 8.56 | 8.39 |
| Carnegie Mellon University (Tepper) | 8.5 | 8.27 | 8.39 |
| Drexel University (LeBow) | 8.57 | 8.17 | 8.37 |
| College of New Jersey | 8.19 | 8.54 | 8.37 |
| Seattle University (Albers) | 8.48 | 8.21 | 8.35 |
| University of the Pacific (Eberhardt) | 8.89 | 7.8 | 8.35 |
| Tulane University (Freeman) | 8.54 | 8.15 | 8.35 |
| University of Kentucky (Gatton) | 8.53 | 8.15 | 8.34 |
| Syracuse University (Whitman) | 8.63 | 7.93 | 8.28 |
| University of Texas at Dallas (Jindal) | 8.64 | 7.92 | 8.28 |
| Oregon State University | 8.59 | 7.88 | 8.24 |
| Northern Illinois University | 8.44 | 7.83 | 8.14 |
| Rutgers Business School – New Brunswick | 8.19 | 8.08 | 8.14 |
| University of Denver (Daniels) | 8.39 | 7.88 | 8.14 |
| University of Delaware (Lerner) | 8.1 | 8.08 | 8.09 |
| Christopher Newport University (Luter) | 8.26 | 7.89 | 8.08 |
| Worcester Polytechnic Institute | 8.75 | 7.38 | 8.07 |
| University of Utah (Eccles) | 8.09 | 7.93 | 8.01 |
| St. John’s University (Tobin) | 8.04 | 7.88 | 7.96 |
| Rutgers Business School – Newark | 8.09 | 7.82 | 7.96 |
| Lehigh University | 8.04 | 7.79 | 7.92 |
| Florida International University | 7.87 | 7.89 | 7.88 |
| Towson University | 8.19 | 7.43 | 7.81 |
| Rochester Institute of Technology (Saunders) | 8.12 | 7.27 | 7.70 |
| Texas Tech University (Rawls) | 7.75 | 7.5 | 7.63 |
| University of Michigan-Dearborn | 7.62 | 7.3 | 7.46 |
| American University (Kogod) | 7.89 | 6.89 | 7.39 |
| Sacred Heart University | 7.47 | 7.24 | 7.36 |
| University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (Lubar) | 7.43 | 7.14 | 7.29 |
| University of Akron | 7.43 | 6.86 | 7.15 |
| San Diego State University | 6.86 | 6.17 | 6.52 |
| University of Texas at Arlington | 7.33 | 5.67 | 6.50 |
WOULD YOU RECOMMEND YOUR BUSINESS PROGRAM? (Page 1)
WAS THE DEGREE WORTH THE TIME AND COST? (Page 2)
FACULTY QUALITY & ACCESSIBILITY (Page 3)
ADVISING QUALITY (Page 4)
BUILDING A PROFESSIONAL NETWORK (Page 5)
CLIMBING THE LADDER (Page 6)
CAREER OUTCOMES (Page 7)
SKILL DEVELOPMENT (Page 8)
SIGNATURE EXPERIENCE (Page 9)
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