LABJ 2005

For immediate release:

Cal State L.A. MBA Program
Among Top 10 in L.A. County

Los Angeles, CA – The Los Angeles Business Journal (LABJ) has ranked the California State University, Los Angeles MBA program as one of Los Angeles’ best graduate business programs based on current full-time equivalent student enrollment. The rankings were published in the June 2005 issue of LABJ.

“We are extremely proud that Cal State L.A.’s MBA program continues to be listed among the top ten throughout Los Angeles County,” says Timothy Haight, dean of the College of Business and Economics. “Cal State L.A.’s College of Business and Economics offers the best graduate business value in the Los Angeles region, providing a nationally recognized program that, for decades, has opened professional, social and economic doors for all students.”

Cal State L.A.’s College of Business and Economics equips men and women with intellectual and professional tools for careers in dynamic, global, and multicultural organizations. The College offers undergraduate degrees in accountancy, business administration, computer information systems, and economics and participates in an interdisciplinary graduate program in health care management. Also offered are several minors and credit certificate programs designed for individuals pursuing degrees in other fields. The College offers quality graduate programs in accountancy, economics, health care management, information systems, and the MBA.

Since 1960, the College has been nationally accredited at both undergraduate and graduate levels by the International Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB). Of the more than 1,400 colleges and universities in the nation that grant degrees in business and management, only about 400 institutions are accredited with both undergraduate and graduate programs. U.S.News & World Report 2006 “America’s Best Colleges” issue has ranked Cal State L.A.’s business program among the nation’s best undergraduate programs for the seventh year in a row.

For more information on Cal State L.A.’s MBA program, call the College of Business and Economics at Cal State L.A., (323) 343-2800.

Working for California since 1947: The 175-acre hilltop campus of California State University, Los Angeles is at the heart of a major metropolitan city, just five miles from Los Angeles’ civic and cultural center. More than 20,000 students and 170,000 alumni—with a wide variety of interests, ages and backgrounds--reflect the city’s dynamic mix of populations. Six colleges offer nationally recognized science, arts, business, criminal justice, engineering, nursing, education and humanities programs, among others, led by an award-winning faculty. Cal State L.A. is home to the critically-acclaimed Luckman Jazz Orchestra and to a unique university center for gifted students as young as 12. Among programs that provide exciting enrichment opportunities to students and community include a noted alternative energy technology initiative; an NEH- and Rockefeller-supported humanities center; a NASA-funded center for space research; and a growing forensic science program, to be housed in the Los Angeles Regional Crime Lab now under construction. www.calstatela.edu