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The Jesse H. Jones Graduate School of Management at Rice University is the ideal place for your firm to recruit talented MBAs. This AACSB accredited, competitive program graduates professionals superbly suited to confront today's increasingly complex business challenges.
The Rice MBA program started in 1974 and now boasts over 360 full time students. These students have been selected from an international pool of top applicants that have an average of 5+ years work experience. The average GMAT score of over 640 for the entering class of 2006 demonstrates the substantial aptitude of the student body. Furthermore, the small class size and nationally renowned faculty endow these students with a profound understanding of both quantitative and qualitative skills.
The Jones School's is nationally recognized as one of the best business schools for its academic excellence, focus on quantitative skills, and emphasis on real world business. Graduates are thoroughly equipped with a variety of skills that prepare them for the professional cha llenges they will face.
- Quantitative Skills. The Rice program and its graduates are renowned for their keen analytical abilities. Rice graduates have a superior command of the analytical tools that are often used in all functional areas.
- Communication Skills. Development of both verbal and written communication skills has high priority at the Jones School. They are a key component of all Jones School classes.
- Teamwork: No management skill is more important than the ability to work with others. As most classes require students to work in teams, Jones School graduates have mastered the arts of teamwork and compromise. Additionally, Rice students understand diversity in teams, as 20% of the class is composed of international students.
- Leadership. A new and dynamic leadership development program was launched in 1997. As a result of strong support from students, faculty and employers, integration of leadership skills is cornerstone of a newly revised curriculum.
- Operational Expertise. Approximately 40% of Rice graduates have a background in engineering or applied sciences. Many Jones School graduates have the first hand experience that enables the to understand technical and operational issues.
- Business Perspective. Do your recent MBAs balk when faced with a business problem that lie outside their MBA area of expertise? Not Rice graduates! You can rest assured that Jones School graduates have full command of Finance, Marketing, and Strategic Management techniques. Virtually all classes use the case method and require students to utilize skills from several disciplines to solve complex business issues. Jones School graduates have a complete set of business tools, skills, and perspectives.
Fast Facts
- Ranked as a Top 10 School for its Quantitative and Finance Programs in the 1998 edition of Time Magazine/Princeton Review ranking of "The Best Graduate Schools".
- Ranked as a "Top U.S. Business School" and a "Top 20 Payback:" by Business Week in 1997.
- Ranked as "One of the Best Business Schools" and a "Best Value School" by the Princeton Review in 1997.
- Ranked as a "Top 20 Business School for Student Quality" in the Journal of Business.
- In 2002, Financial Times placed the Jones School as the top ranked program in Texas and surrounding region.
- The Jones School distinguished and energetic faculty consider current industry knowledge as critical as textbooks. Students are guided by some of the best faculty in their fields who maintain an important balance between teaching and research. The faculty is composed of academics with significant business or consulting experience and business executives with significant classroom experience teaching specialized elective courses.
- Students spend ten weeks in the spring semester of their first year on action learning projects (ALPs). Students conduct research, analyze business issues, and then recommend solutions and strategies to company management on-site at a diverse group of host companies. Jones School students learn how to interpret the disciplines they study and turn that knowledge into positive business decisions.
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