GVSU makes 'Best Business Schools' guide

Grand Valley State University's Seidman College of Business has been named by the Princeton Review as one of the 'Best 290 Business Schools' for 2008.

The ranking lists are based on survey of business school students conducted during the 2006-07, 2005-06 and 2004-05 academic years. The 80-question survey asks students about their school’s academics, student body and campus life, themselves and their career plans.

Grand Valley graduate students in the MBA program said “technologically, the campus has no equal when it comes to wireless Internet access and computer resource availability.” They also praised Grand Valley’s “affordability” and “flexibility” of the program as well as the “quality of instruction.”

Students said Seidman professors “are often active in the business world, maintaining the edge to pass on to the students.”

At the time of the survey, 266 students were enrolled in the business school, 88 percent were part-time students. The average age at entry was 31.

The Princeton Review compiled the lists based on its surveys of 19,000 students attending 290 business schools and on school-reported data. The school profiles cover academics, admission, financial aid, campus life and career information.

For more information, call GVSU News and Information Services at (616) 331-2221, or visit www.PrincetonReview.com/mba/ .