The Boston College Carroll School of Management figured prominently in the latest U.S. News & World Report rankings of undergraduate business programs, with the Seidner Department of Finance leading the way.
Finance placed 6th in its discipline, a notch higher than last year, while Accounting reached the 8th spot, three rungs above its last showing. The two Carroll School departments achieved their highest rankings ever in the closely watched annual survey, , released September 23.
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All of the school鈥檚 departments and programs surveyed by the publication stood in the top tier of their disciplines. Marketing and Business Analytics landed at number 10, and two other programs鈥擡ntrepreneurship (a concentration at the Carroll School, not a department) and Management and Organization鈥攅ach ranked 11th. Meantime, U.S. News pegged the Carroll School鈥檚 undergraduate program overall at number 32, out of 452 schools of management responding to the survey.
The Carroll School has six academic departments altogether, including Business Law and Society, a subject area not surveyed by U.S. News.
These new rankings keep the Carroll School in good company with its counterparts at other leading research universities in the United States.
The only schools of management that scored higher in Finance were, in order of rankings, those at the University of Pennsylvania, New York University, the University of Michigan, MIT, and the University of Texas at Austin. The Carroll School鈥檚 undergraduate accounting program ran ahead of business schools at Notre Dame (10), New York University (11), University of California, Berkeley (15), University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (20), and Cornell (26), among other nationally prominent schools. (Accounting shared its 8th position with the University of Florida, while Finance tied with Berkeley for 6th.)
For its business school rankings, U.S. News employs a singular methodology, basing its findings entirely on 鈥減eer assessment surveys of deans and senior faculty from accredited U.S. institutions,鈥� .
The rankings are compiled as part of the annual undergraduate survey, , which uses a broader methodology including such factors as how many economically disadvantaged students graduate from the institutions. Boston College as a national university , one step above last year, while also ranking 6th for 鈥渢eaching programs.鈥� For , U.S. News highlighted schools that received 鈥渢he most votes from top college administrators for putting a particular focus on undergraduate teaching.鈥�
