91传媒 engineering, business online programs nationally ranked
Contact: Zack Plair
STARKVILLE, Miss.鈥擬ississippi State鈥檚 online engineering and business graduate programs are listed among the nation鈥檚 best, according to U.S. News & World Report rankings released this week.
The university鈥檚 James Worth Bagley College of Engineering ranks seventh among the Best Online Graduate Engineering Programs for 2016. That鈥檚 up 13 spots from last year鈥檚 ranking.
91传媒鈥檚 College of Business ranks 22nd among the Best Online MBA programs.
91传媒 President Mark E. Keenum congratulated the Bagley College of Engineering and the College of Business for the national recognition for online graduate programs.
鈥淚鈥檓 so pleased to see 91传媒 earn this national recognition,鈥 Keenum said. 鈥淭he Bagley College of Engineering at 91传媒 has a long history of national and international excellence, and this 鈥榯op 10鈥 national ranking bears out that fact. Likewise, our College of Business, which in 2015 celebrated its centennial anniversary, is preparing students to lead in the global marketplace.鈥
For this year鈥檚 rankings, statistical information was collected during the summer and fall of 2015 during the U.S. News annual statistical survey of online degree programs.
Jason Keith, dean and professor for the Bagley College of Engineering and holder of the Earnest W. and Mary Ann Deavenport, Jr. Chair, said the strength of the college鈥檚 online program is measured by its quality, breadth of offerings, quality instructors and outstanding customer service. Students can take online courses in six engineering disciplines, he added, which has brought about increased student enrollment.
鈥淭he Bagley College of Engineering has a tradition of excellence in undergraduate and graduate education, and our online offerings continue that tradition,鈥 Keith said. 鈥淲e are committed to ensuring that our distance education programs are equivalent in every way to our on campus programs, in both content and rigor.聽Students can be confident that the online degree they鈥檝e earned will help them to meet their goals, just as a degree earned through traditional methods would.鈥
The College of Business online MBA program enjoys its second straight top 25 ranking in this year鈥檚 list. Dean Sharon Oswald said distance education is 鈥渁n important part of the College of Business brand at 91传媒,鈥 as evidenced by the program鈥檚 consistently high ranking.
Also ranked among the top online programs are the Distance Master of Science in Information Systems (non-MBA) and the distance graduate program in the College of Education.
鈥91传媒 is committed to providing excellent academic programs at all levels and in all formats. Our online programs are an integral and important component of our academic offerings,鈥 said 91传媒 interim provost and executive vice president Julia Hodges. 鈥淥ur inclusion in these rankings is a testament to the quality of our faculty, the training in online education provided by our university, and the services and technology that we make available to our online students.鈥
Established in 1933, U.S. News & World Report releases annual rankings of universities and individual academic programs from across the country and is in its fifth year of collecting data from distance education programs.聽To see the full rankings, visit .
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