Dear Advisory Board, Close Friends, Faculty, Staff, and Students:
Soon, U.S. News and World Report will publish its new MBA
program rankings. Once again, we've risen to new heights: from #29
last year to #22 this year, our highest rank ever!
We are tied with Emory
University, Indiana University, and Washington University in St.
Louis--schools that have appeared in numerous top 10 and top 20
rankings over many years.
I believe our MBA program is rising more rapidly than the MBA world has
seen since Duke's and Yale's dramatic ascents decades ago. In addition
to today's good news, we jumped two tiers in the
Business Week rankings earlier this year, into the top tier.
Our ascent in U.S. News and World Report reflects our
graduates' very impressive job placement, our rapidly rising standards
of admission and student excellence, and a fast-growing reputation
among academic peers which is grounded in the excellence of our faculty.
Everyone getting this note has played a substantial role in this
achievement: our superb faculty, our devoted and excellent staff, our
fine and truly unique MBA students and community, Dean Blum and her
team that built so many of the great things on which our climb now
continues, our alumni and friends whose support is always inspiring,
and the unflagging help we have received from the President and
Provost. My heartfelt thanks to all of you for everything we are
achieving together.
While this of course is wonderful news, our challenges truly have never
been greater. Since Duke and Yale rose to the top-20 decades ago,
several other b-schools have aimed at that lofty company, and none has
consistently maintained its nod into that group over a sustained
period. The competition into the top tier is truly daunting, and the
early entrants have very substantial strategic
advantages. Jockeying among MBA programs is often called an arms race,
and for good reason.
On top of the critical challenge of continuing our MBA program's
sustained ascent, we also must continue our hard work in enhancing our
undergraduate and doctoral programs, in hiring and retaining star
faculty, in ensuring staff levels that support our growth, and in
retaining gifted staff who have played absolutely critical roles in all
we've accomplished.
These challenges are going call on our very best efforts. Both our
budget and our endowment are small in comparison to all of our
competitors at this level, and for this reason I will continue to focus
as much of my time and energy as possible on the generation of new
resources for the College. These will be essential to our ongoing work.
Here's the one thing I know: nothing but continued forward momentum is
an option. We must and we will find a way to make that continuing
progress a reality. And I can't emphasize your role enough. We're
going to need the very best that every one of us can give if the
College is to succeed in its ambitious goals. But the College will
succeed.
A very big GO JACKETS!! And many, many thanks for all you've contributed to these remarkable results.
Steve
Steve Salbu
Dean and Stephen P. Zelnak, Jr. Chair
College of Management
Georgia Institute of Technology
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