BusinessWeek Ranks BYU No. 2 in West for Placement

PROVO, Utah – Mar 06, 2013 – Employment may be hard to find in today’s job market, but Brigham Young University MBA graduates are doing well according to Bloomberg BusinessWeek. The BYU MBA program was ranked No. 2 in the West for job placement, behind University of California, Berkeley. 

The ranking lists programs whose 2012 graduates had job offers within three months of graduation. According to BusinessWeek, the Marriott School of Management is the top Utah school for placement and No. 17 in the country.

“Marriott School students are leaving our institution prepared to make significant contributions,” says Gary Cornia, dean of the Marriott School of Management. “We are grateful to the hundreds of companies that recruit and hire our graduates all over the country. I’m confident they make a wise investment when they hire a BYU MBA graduate.”

The ranking includes figures from the last three years of the program’s placement statistics. The MBA program placed 93 percent of students in 2012, 90 percent of students in 2011, and 86 percent of students in 2010.

To view BusinessWeek’s “Best and Worst 2012 MBA Job Placement” article, click here.

The Marriott School is located at Brigham Young University, the largest privately owned, church-sponsored university in the United States. The school has nationally recognized programs in accounting, business management, public management, information systems, and entrepreneurship. The school’s mission is to prepare men and women of faith, character and professional ability for positions of leadership throughout the world. Approximately 3,000 students are enrolled in the Marriott School’s graduate and undergraduate programs.