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SIMON EARNS HIGH MARKS IN BUSINESSWEEK SPECIALTY RANKINGS

Release Date: Jan 05, 2009

Rochester, N.Y.-January 5, 2009-The Simon Graduate School of Business at the University of Rochester ranks ninth for most improved and 10^th for accounting among the top business schools in the world in recently released BusinessWeek business specialty rankings.

            As part of its 2008 M.B.A. ranking, BusinessWeek surveyed corporate recruiters at more than 500 leading companies that hire the most graduate business students about which schools produce the strongest graduates in 12 functional areas including marketing, global business, and accounting among others.

            In addition to the most improved and accounting specialty rankings, Simon placed 14^th for innovative curriculum, 20^th for finance, 21^st for operations/production, 22^nd for competing globally, 25^th for analytical skills, 26^th for career services and 31^st for general management.

            “Our reputation among corporate recruiters is of primary importance to our students in terms of placement,” says Dean Mark Zupan. “The greatest gift that we can ultimately give our students is to provide them with a framework that will last throughout their professional careers and allow them to add significant value to the organizations that they affiliate with or launch. These latest rankings place the Simon School among the finest business schools in the world for value added to the firms hiring our graduates, and for this we are justly proud.”

            Last month, BusinessWeek ranked Simon the first private business school, the fourth U.S. business school and 12^th overall for return on investment.

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The Simon School prides itself as the place Where Thinkers Become Leaders™ and is currently ranked among the leading graduate business schools in the world in rankings published by the popular press, including BusinessWeek, U.S. News & World Report, The Wall Street Journal, Financial Times and Forbes. For example, the Financial Times recently rated the School 2nd in the world for finance and 5th in the world for managerial economics. More information about the Simon School is available on the World Wide Web at www.simon.rochester.edu.