Fairfield University Ranked Among Best Graduate Programs Nationwide by U.S. News & World Report
Fairfield University business and nursing programs climb nationally and statewide in 2023-2024 Best Graduate Schools rankings. The Charles F. Dolan’s business programs are among the Top 20 in the U.S., and #1 in the State of Connecticut for Accounting, Business Analytics, Finance and Marketing. Fairfield’s Marion Peckham Egan School of Nursing and Health Studies DNP and master’s programs are #2 in Connecticut.
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Fairfield University’s Marion Peckham Egan School of Nursing & Health Studies and Charles F. Dolan School of Business have climbed in U.S. News & World Report’s 2023-2024 Best Graduate Schools rankings.
Fairfield 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
Among the Best Nursing Schools that offer Master’s degrees, the Egan School ranked #73 in a tie with four schools including Michigan State and Quinnipiac, and also tied with Quinnipiac for #2 in Connecticut, behind Yale.
2023 - 2024 Best Graduate Schools – Nursing:
- #73 (T) nationally, #2 (T) in Connecticut among schools with Master’s programs.
- #74 (T) nationally#2 (T) in Connecticut among schools with DNP programs.
Ranking factors for the 2023-2024 Best Business Schools Rankings included peer assessment score based on fall 2022 and early 2023 surveys “that asked business school deans and MBA program directors to rate the overall academic quality of the other part-time programs on a scale from marginal (1) to outstanding (5). A school's score is the average rating of all the responses.
U.S. News and World Report’s rankings of nursing master’s and DNP programs are based on factors including faculty resources, research activity, quality assessment, program size, and student selectivity.
Posted On: April 25, 2023
Volume: 54 Number: 100
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