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Tuesday, September 22nd, 2009
The Freeman School of Business is one of the top five graduate schools in the nation for entrepreneurship, according to a new survey by Entrepreneur magazine and the Princeton Review. The Freeman School is ranked No. 4 on the list of Top Graduate Programs for Entrepreneurs. The ranking appears in the October issue of Entrepreneur and is available online at www.entrepreneur.com/topcolleges.
“We are grateful for this ranking that recognizes the quality and uniqueness of our entrepreneurship programs,” said John Elstrott, executive director of the Freeman School’s Levy-Rosenblum Institute for Entrepreneurship. “This ranking reflects the commitment of our students, faculty and staff to engage in the reinvention and rebuilding of New Orleans through entrepreneurship. The programs and courses at the A. B. Freeman School of Business are dedicated to teaching and implementing the principles of conscious capitalism and social entrepreneurship that are redefining how free market economies function around the world.”
 John Elstrott, executive director of the Levy-Rosenblum Institute for Entrepreneurship The Freeman School has built a strong reputation in recent years for social entrepreneurship, which refers to the use entrepreneurial principles to address social problems. More recently, under Elstrott’s guidance, the Freeman School has become a leader in promoting conscious capitalism, which calls for organizations to consider what is best for all stakeholders–employees, shareholders, the community and the environment–rather than solely focusing on shareholder returns. The 2010 Tulane Business Plan Competition, which will take place April 16, will be the first in the country to incorporate principles of conscious capitalism into its requirements.
Entrepreneur and the Princeton Review surveyed more than 2,300 schools to come up with this year’s ranking. Entrepreneurship programs were evaluated based on key criteria in the areas of academics and requirements, students and faculty, and outside-the-classroom experiences. “Each school that made the list demonstrates excellence in one or more areas–whether in regards to course offerings, the success of students post-graduation, sponsored mentorship programs or other important factors,” said Amy Cosper, VP/editor in chief at Entrepreneur. “While each program is unique, their inclusion in this ranking solidifies their place in an elite category of institutions offering a superlative level of education and preparedness that will play a key role in ensuring the success of tomorrow’s entrepreneurs.”
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Monday, June 1st, 2009
 In its latest ranking of global MBA programs, Latin American business magazine AméricaEconomía has ranked the Freeman School 30th internationally and 20th among U.S. business schools. The ranking appeared in the magazine’s June 2009 issue.
In addition to the global MBA ranking, the Freeman School also appears prominently on the magazine’s ranking of the top MBA programs in Latin America. The Freeman School is listed as a dual-degree program partner with four of the top 10 schools in Latin America, including Universidad de los Andes in Bogota, ITAM in Mexico City, IESA in Caracas, and Universidad de Chile in Santiago. The Freeman School appears as a partner institution with more top Latin American schools than any other U.S. business school.
The Freeman School has been active in Latin America for more than 15 years, offering master’s, Executive MBA and faculty-development PhD programs in collaboration with prestigious universities across the region.
In 2007, the Freeman School launched the Global MBA, a new master’s program in which MBA students from Tulane and three Latin American universities form an international cohort and complete a series of courses focusing on global strategy offered in locations around the world.
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Thursday, April 23rd, 2009
 In the latest edition of its America’s Best Graduate Schools guidebook, U.S. News & World Report has ranked the Freeman School 48th on the list of the best business schools in America. Highlights of the ranking survey appear in the May 2009 issue of U.S. News & World Report.
“U.S. News is a major benchmark of MBA programs in the United States,” says Bill Sandefer, director of graduate admissions. “With more than 400 programs vying for a place on the list, Tulane should be proud of the recognition. For the Freeman School, the variety and quantity of such recognition is really a testament to a great faculty, students and alums.”
U.S. News surveyed all 426 master’s programs in business accredited by the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business to assemble this year’s list of the best business schools. The ranking is based on a methodology that includes assessments of quality from deans, MBA program directors and recruiters, measures of placement success, and measures of student selectivity.
For more information about this year’s business school ranking, visit usnews.com.
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Thursday, March 26th, 2009
The Freeman School has been named one of the top 15 graduate business schools in finance by the Princeton Review. The ranking, based on a survey of MBA students, appears in the April 2009 issue of Entrepreneur magazine.
 
The Princeton Review contacted 19,000 MBA students attending 296 business schools to compile its “Student Opinion Honors for Business Schools” in six core areas: finance, accounting, general management, global management, marketing and operations. The top 15 schools in each category according to the MBAs are listed alphabetically and are not ranked from one to 15.
For more information about the survey and the lists, visit entrepreneur.com/topcolleges.
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Tuesday, September 9th, 2008
For the third straight year, Entrepreneur magazine and The Princeton Review have named Freeman one of the nation’s top business schools for entrepreneurs.
The Freeman School was ranked 17th on this year’s list of the Top 25 Graduate Programs for entrepreneurs. The ranking appears in the October issue of Entrepreneur.
“This ranking reflects our commitment to providing students with the practical skills, real-world experience and inspiration to fulfill their aspirations to start and build companies that make the world a better place,” said John Elstrott, clinical professor of business and director of the Freeman School’s Levy-Rosenblum Institute for Entrepreneurship. “In that last 17 years, more than 75 successful new businesses have been launched by graduates of our entrepreneurship program, each one creating jobs and wealth in its community.”
The Freeman School offers a wide range of courses aimed at entrepreneurs, including New Venture Planning, Marketing Planning and Implementation, Venture Capital & Private Equity, Marketing Research, and Management of Technology and Innovation.
The Freeman School also sponsors the annual Tulane Business Plan Competition, which awards cash prizes to promising new businesses. Recent ventures launched through the competition include Rethos.com, a social networking site devoted to socially responsible individuals and businesses; INExchange, a fair-trade boutique selling arts and crafts from around the world; and NOLA 180, an educational non-profit that helped create the Langston Hughes Academy Charter School in New Orleans.
Entrepreneur and The Princeton Review surveyed more than 2,300 entrepreneurship programs to come up with this year’s Top 25 graduate and undergraduate rankings. Schools were evaluated based on key criteria in the areas of academics and requirements, students and faculty, and outside-the-classroom experiences.
To learn more about this year’s survey, visit www.entrepreneur.com/topcolleges
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Monday, September 1st, 2008
The Freeman School jumped five spots to No. 43 in the latest U.S. News & World Report ranking of undergraduate business programs. The ranking appeared in the magazine’s Sept. 1, 2008, issue.
“This is great news for the Freeman School and the undergraduate program, but as always we must be cautious about putting too much weight in this or any other ranking,” said Angelo DeNisi, dean of the Freeman School. “Our true focus continues to be making the program the best it can be regardless of rankings.”
The ranking was based on a spring 2008 survey of deans and senior faculty at undergraduate business programs accredited by the AACSB. The deans and faculty members were asked to rate the quality of all programs they were familiar with on a scale of 1 (marginal) to 5 (distinguished).
Eight schools were tied with Freeman at No. 43, including Bentley College, the College of William and Mary, Rensselaer Polytechnic University, University of Arkansas, University of Pittsburgh, University of South Carolina, University of Tennessee, and Virginia Tech.
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Tuesday, August 26th, 2008
In its latest survey of global MBA programs, Latin American business magazine AméricaEconomía has ranked the Freeman School’s MBA program 24th in the world and 15th among U.S. business schools. The ranking, a jump of two spots over last year’s position, appears in the August 2008 issue.
“I think this ranking reflects the breadth of our activities throughout the region,” said Angelo DeNisi, dean of the Freeman School. “Between our Global Leadership Module, the Global MBA option, and our international executive and PhD programs, the Freeman School has become one of the premier U.S. business schools in Latin America.”
In addition to the Global MBA ranking, the Freeman School also appeared prominently on the magazine’s list of the top 50 Latin American MBA programs. Freeman was listed as a partner institution with four of the top 10 programs in Latin America, including ITAM in Mexico City, Universidad de Los Andes in Colombia, IESA in Venezuela, and Universidad de Chile in Chile. No other U.S. business school was affiliated with as many Top 10 programs.
For more information about this year’s ranking, visit www.americaeconomia.com
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Tuesday, February 12th, 2008
The Financial Times isn’t the only prestigious publication to rank the Freeman School highly in recent months. The Wall Street Journal, Entrepreneur, Forbes, U.S. News & World Report, and Latin America’s AméricaEconomía and Expansion have each ranked Freeman among the best in recent surveys.
The rankings kicked off in August, when Latin American business magazine AméricaEconomía ranked Freeman 17th among U.S. business schools and 26th internationally on its list of the best global MBA programs for Latin Americans. AméricaEconomía also ranked the Freeman School’s MBA of the Americas Executive MBA program, a joint venture with Universidad de Chile, 17th on its list of the best Latin MBA programs.
Also in August, Mexican business magazine Expansion ranked the Freeman School 28th among U.S. business schools and 48th internationally on its list of Best Global MBAs. The ranking is based on diverse criteria including average GMAT score, student selectivity, percentage of PhD-level faculty, research quality, average salary of graduates, percent employed three months after graduation, and reputation among recruiters.
Closing out the month, the Freeman School’s BSM program was ranked 48th by U.S. News & World Report on its list of the best undergraduate business programs.
In September, the Freeman School broke into The Wall Street Journal’s ranking of the top MBA programs for the first time in seven years. The Wall Street Journal ranked Freeman 48th on its list of regional MBA programs. Unlike other surveys, the Wall Street Journal ranking is based entirely on the opinions of MBA recruiters. The Wall Street Journal/Harris Interactive contacted more than 4,000 MBA recruiters and asked them to rate schools with whcih they had had contact. The recruiters provided a total of 6,151 school ratings. Of the 256 schools eligible for inclusion, only 86 received the necessary minimum of 20 recruiter rankings.
Also in September, Forbes magazine ranked Freeman 44th in the nation and 28th among private universities in its biennial ranking of top MBA programs. The Forbes survey is unique in that it ranks schools based on their return on investment, meaning compensation five years after graduation minus tuition and foregone salary during school. Freeman ranked 51st on the list in the magazine’s 2005 survey.
In October, the Freeman School’s Executive MBA program was ranked the 38th best in the U.S. and 74th internationally by the Financial Times in its annual executive education report.
And, finally, in November, Entrepreneur magazine and the Princeton Review ranked the Freeman School 15th on their annual list of Best Graduate Programs for Entrepreneurs. It was the second straight year Freeman made the magazine’s list of top programs for entrepreneurs. Entrepreneur and the Princeton Review surveyed more than 900 schools for this year’s ranking, a 30 percent increase over last year, and they evaluated entrepreneurship programs on key criteria including academics and requirement, students and faculty, and outside-the-classroom support and experience.
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Monday, January 28th, 2008
 In its latest survey of global MBA programs, the Financial Times has named Tulane’s Freeman School of Business one of the 10 best schools in the world in finance. The 10th place ranking, which appeared in the Financial Times on Jan. 28, is based on the recommendations of more than 11,000 MBA alumni from around the world who responded to this year’s Financial Times survey.
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