Welcome to the premier issue of the聽Carroll Connection: Graduate Edition.听
We launched the聽Carroll Connection聽earlier this year with stories about life at the Carroll School and the ideas flowing among faculty, alumni, students, and others. Now we are introducing a twice-yearly edition geared specifically to you鈥攁lumni of the Carroll School of Management Graduate Programs.
Undoubtedly much has changed in your lives since you earned your M.B.A., M.S.A., or M.S.F., or perhaps a doctorate from one of our Ph.D. programs. Much has changed at the Carroll School too.
Over the past decade, our top-ranked faculty has grown dramatically in size as well as in quality. And yet, we鈥檝e retained the intimate, student-focused environment that you remember well. We鈥檝e piloted and launched new academic programs in areas ranging from analytics to entrepreneurship.
At the moment, we鈥檙e experimenting on several fronts鈥攆or example, bringing management simulations into the classroom, with Professor Scott McDermott鈥檚 DNA of Business course (profiled in this edition). Next fall, we鈥檒l welcome our first crop of Ph.D. students in accounting, adding to our doctoral programs in finance and organization studies.
These and many other innovations have bolstered our School鈥檚 reputation nationally as well as internationally. At the Carroll School, we don鈥檛 live by the rankings, but they do throw light on the overall progress we鈥檝e made. For example, in our graduate programs we are now ranked #12 for finance, #14 for entrepreneurship, and #16 for accounting (by聽U.S. News & World Report). Likewise, out of 237 programs, our part-time M.B.A. weighed in at #37 in this year鈥檚聽U.S. News聽survey. And just this week,聽Bloomberg Businessweek聽announced that our full-time M.B.A. ranked #48 in its survey "Best Business Schools 2016."
And we鈥檙e doing all this the Carroll School way. We aren鈥檛 just training our students for narrow specialties and tasks within their organizations. Any business school can do that, and of course we teach the hard skills too. But we鈥檙e also preparing students to step up more prominently and effectively as leaders. We鈥檙e sending them back into arenas that increasingly demand greater innovation, bolder ideas, and smarter processes. They鈥檙e ready.
In this issue, you will read about many things including what's going on with your fellow聽(and future) alums. We look forward to sharing this evolving story with you, and hearing more about yours. Feedback is gratefully and enthusiastically received by way of聽e-mail聽to me.
There鈥檚 much to tell.
Andy Boynton 鈥�78, P鈥�13
John and Linda Powers Family Dean
Carroll School of Management