Forbes ranks the Oregon M.B.A. seventh best among M.B.A. programs with an out-of-state tuition of $40,000 or less.
The Lundquist College of Business undergraduate program is among the best at public universities and in the top ten of all schools on the West Coast, according to U.S.News & World Report's Best Colleges 2007. The issue also ranks the college sixteenth for entrepreneurship.
Recruiters responding to a Business Week poll rated the Lundquist College of Business undergraduate program thirty-sixth in the country based on quality of graduates. The magazine has also called the Lundquist Center for Entrepreneurship's New Venture Championship one of the nation's top three business plan competitions.
A September 16, 2006, article in The Wall Street Journal rates the Warsaw Sports Marketing Center among the top five programs of its kind, and the SportsBusiness Journal calls the center "the premier sports marketing think tank."
Faculty Excellence
Media outlets--including ESPN, Forbes, The New York Times, and The Wall Street Journal--continually call on the expertise of college faculty. In the past year, faculty members were referenced in 184 national media stories and 562 regional papers.
Assistant professors of finance Jonathan Reuter and Woodrow Johnson received two of five highly competitive research grants awarded by the Institute for Quantitative Research in Finance in 2006.
The college welcomed five new faculty members in 2006–2007 with credentials from top business schools, including Case Western Reserve University, University of Michigan, University of Southern California, Washington University in St. Louis, and Washington State University.
Experiential Learning
M.B.A. students traveled to Beijing and Shanghai, meeting with the Chinese Olympic Committee and several sports marketing companies, as part of the college's new Engaging China initiative. The initiative, developed in partnership with the UO Center for Asian and Pacific Studies, seeks to expose students to the culture, history, politics, and business climate of East Asia.
For the second year in a row, the student-run University of Oregon Investment Group took first place among twelve schools in the Equity Value Portfolio Category at the 2006 Redefining Investment Strategy Education VI competition at the University of Dayton.
Strategic Planning Projects (SPP) links M.B.A. students with companies interested in capitalizing on emerging business opportunities. Previous companies hosting SPP teams include Amazon.com; Columbia Sportswear Company; Nike, Inc.; Hewlett-Packard; and Intel Corporation.
Undergraduates in the Leadership in Action Practicum consulted with the UO Counseling and Testing Center, Mount Pisgah Arboretum, HIV Alliance, Wastewater Treatment, Cottage Grove Community Sharing, and Centro Latino Americano to solve nonprofit business challenges.
Since 2005, three student ventures affiliated with the Lundquist Center for Entrepreneurship's Technology Entrepreneurship Program (TEP) have evolved into emerging businesses. The TEP program is a central component of the university's technology commercialization strategy.
For each of the past two years, nearly 100 business undergraduates studied abroad--the most of any major at the UO.
World-Class Facilities
Based on M.B.A. student feedback, the 2007 edition of The Princeton Review's Best 282 Business Schools rated the Lundquist College of Business sixth best for facilities.
The Lillis Business Complex earned a "silver" designation from the U.S. Green Building Council's Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design program, making the building the country's most environmentally friendly business school facility.
