Entrepreneur Magazine: Drucker School Was Named One of Top 15 B-Schools in Student Satisfaction

April 2, 2009 - PRLog -- We are very honored to be among the top schools named in The Princeton Review’s top business schools list as published in Entrepreneur magazine,” said Ira Jackson, Dean and Professor of Management at The Peter F. Drucker and Masatoshi Ito Graduate School of Management. “We have always been committed to teaching our students the importance of effective management and ethical leadership across all sectors of society. To receive this recognition by the prestigious Princeton Review offers external validation of the quality of our faculty and the benefit of the general management education that we deliver. ”

The Student Opinion Honors for Business Schools identifies MBA institutions whose students overwhelmingly agree that it offers extraordinary preparation in six core business areas including: accounting, finance, general management, global management, marketing and operations. Fifteen schools in each category were selected based completely on surveys conducted by The Princeton Review and completed by more than 19,000 MBA students attending the 296 schools profiled in its book, “Best 296 Business Schools: 2009 Edition”. The 80-question survey asked participants to rate their experiences in the classroom and on campus, and how they rate their MBA program in preparing them in all six categories.

“This national recognition from Princeton Review and Entrepreneur Magazine comes on the heels of the recent success that the Drucker School student team achieved in winning the national NetImpact case competition at the LEEDS School of Business in Boulder, Colorado,” added Dean Jackson. “Competing against some 85 other business schools, Drucker bested the teams from the University of North Carolina, Harvard, Stanford and Kellogg, and the team from MIT in the finals, for first place honors, the national title, and the $6,000 prize. The NetImpact award is billed as ‘the premier case format competition built around businesses facing sustainability challenges while succeeding financially.’ These two recent honors underscore the unique quality of our students and our faculty and our approach to management education.”

Drucker remains in impressive company as part of the top schools in the General Management category, and are listed beside other top business schools across the nation including Dartmouth, Harvard and INSEAD.  Observed Dean Jackson: “General Management is undeniably the most important single category of an MBA education.  This is where students put it all together – finance, marketing, accounting, organizational behavior, strategy, leadership – and where values are taught.  This is the essence of a Drucker MBA – approaching management as a liberal art, integrating all the core disciplines in an approach that emphasizes effectiveness, innovation, ethics and responsibility.  It is really thrilling for us to receive this honor, which speaks so centrally to our purpose.”

In addition to being featured in the magazine, the lists are also posted on entrepreneur.com and on princetonreview.com.

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About The Drucker School: With a strong commitment to research, values orientation, and an intimate graduate-only curriculum, The Princeton Review recently ranked the school fifth in the nation in faculty quality. The Drucker School offers a variety of professional and doctoral degrees, including MBA, EMBA, MSFE (jointly with CGU’s School of Math), MA in Arts Management (jointly with CGU’s School of Arts and Humanities), and MA in Politics, Business, and Economics (jointly with CGU’s School of Politics and Economics). Named for both a pioneering thinker (Peter Drucker) and an accomplished doer (Masatoshi Ito), the school produces graduates who have a strong sense of social responsibility and a deep desire to make a difference by doing well while also doing good. This year marks what would have been Peter Drucker’s 100th birthday. The Drucker Centennial is designed to make Drucker’s principles and practices relevant for the future.