Fairfield Dolan graduate programs have climbed in U.S. News & World Report’s 2023-2024 Best Graduate Schools rankings. Dolan’s Finance, Marketing, and Business Analytics programs improved their standing in this year’s report and are among the Top 20 in the U.S., and Fairfield Dolan’s Accounting program maintained a high ranking of #26 nationally. In the state of Connecticut, Dolan’s Accounting, Business Analytics, Finance, and Marketing programs were ranked #1. 

2023-2024 Best Graduate Business Specialty Programs:

• Finance #17 nationally, between #16 Fordham (Gabelli) and # 18 Creighton (Heider)
• Marketing #15 nationally, between #14 Fordham (Gabelli) and #16 Boston College (Carroll) and #16 Cornell (Johnson)
• Business Analytics #18 nationally, tied with Santa Clara (Leavey), and between #16 Northwestern (Kellogg), #16 Arizona State University (W.P. Carey),and #20 NC State (Poole)
• Accounting #26 nationally, tied with MIT (Sloan) and University of Wisconsin
• Part-Time MBA #76(T) nationally and #2 in Connecticut

“These rankings are evidence that Fairfield Dolan’s graduate programs are among the top programs in the nation,” said Dean Zhan Li, DBA.

Fairfield Dolan's Accounting program also ranked among the top 20 private colleges for high-paying jobs in accounting, according to a recent WSJ article. Fairfield University placed #20 on the list, with Harvard at number one. According to the ranking compiled by the Burning Glass Institute, a non-profit that researches employment trends, graduates of Fairfield Dolan who are working in accounting earn higher salaries compared to their peers in the field who graduated from other schools. 

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