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Forbes ranks Crummer one of America's best regional business schools. The only Florida business school ranked by Forbes

Forbes magazine ranked the Crummer Graduate School of Business’ full-time M.B.A. program at Rollins College among the top 25 regional schools nationwide in a study to be published in the October 15, 2001, issue of the magazine. Rollins made a leap to 12th from 24th since the first ranking by Forbes, which appeared in February 2000.

"Once again Forbes magazine has confirmed what our faculty, students, alumni, and corporate recruiters already know, that the Crummer School at Rollins College prepares M.B.A. students to be managers and leaders in a way that provides our stakeholders with real value and a world-class business education of distinction," said Crummer Dean Craig McAllaster. "The Forbes ranking is not a popularity contest but rather an unbiased evaluation of the economic value of a Crummer degree.  The fact that we have moved up so dramatically speaks to the quality of the graduate programs we offer."

The Rollins M.B.A. program is the only graduate business program in the state of Florida ranked by Forbes.  Unlike other surveys, Forbes did a comprehensive ranking of business schools that compared the cost of attaining an M.B.A. to the monetary rewards for obtaining the degree. Schools were divided into two groups: national schools with a median cost (tuition and opportunity cost of foregone salary) of more than $95,000, and regional schools with a median cost of less than $95,000. Crummer ranked 12th on the list of regional schools, which included such other prestigious business schools as Wake Forest, Purdue, Ohio State, Tulane, Rice University and Penn State. Previously, Forbes cited Crummer for its innovation in offering a one-year M.B.A. degree program.

In computing the rankings, Forbes calculated that a Crummer degree, through increased earning potential, pays for itself in slightly more than three years. Crummer's tuition for the two-year Early Advantage program, designed for students with limited work experience, is $43,640, while the Accelerated M.B.A. program, an intensive 53-credit hour, one-year program, costs $34,920.

The Crummer Graduate School of Business at Rollins College is global in perspective with roughly a quarter of its full-time student body attending from outside the U.S.  M.B.A. programs at Rollins are fully accredited by the AACSB International (the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business), the premier accrediting agency for business schools.  Graduates of the program are employed by top international firms such as FedEx, Walt Disney World, Darden Restaurants, Tupperware Corporation, CitiCorp, and Raymond James & Associates.  Founded in 1885, Rollins College is Florida’s oldest recognized college, and is consistently ranked by U.S. News & World Report as one of “America’s best colleges.”