"The Acton MBA helped me find my 'calling' and taught me that someone with integrity and drive can change the world." - Carter Higley '04
The Princeton Review Rates Acton MBA Students as ‘Most Competitive’ in America; Acton Teachers Rank Third
09/23/2004
Austin, Texas – September 23, 2004 – The Princeton Review, known for its annual “Best Colleges” guidebook rankings, announced yesterday that the Acton MBA in Entrepreneurship program had the third-best MBA faculty in the country and that its MBA students were America’s “most competitive.”
“We are thrilled with the Princeton Review’s selection of Acton MBA as one of the top business schools in the country,” said Jack Long, a successful entrepreneur and Acton teacher. “But finding that our teachers and our students’ competitive drive was rated above Harvard, Stanford, and Wharton was an even bigger honor.”
The Acton MBA in Entrepreneurship, based in Austin, Texas, is in only its second year of operations. The one-year program is taught by successful entrepreneurs and features intensive 80 to 90 hour work weeks, where students tackle real world problems and even sell products door-to-door. The student-faculty ratio is lower than any MBA program in the country, allowing students to develop strong bonds with their entrepreneur mentors (see www.actonmba.org).
The Princeton Review rankings are based on institutional data from the schools and surveys of students attending the schools in 2003-04. The company surveyed more than 11,000 MBA students, asking more than 40 questions about the schools they are attending, addressing issues such as career plans, academics, student body and campus life.
Acton’s students told The Princeton Review:
“The 80 to 90 hours per week that are described are real. It requires that much time. If you want cut-and-dry, no nonsense business education, go with an Acton MBA.”
Acton professors are “highly successful entrepreneurs who teach keys to business success [by] using the Socratic Method and expecting a high workload to be accomplished every week.”
“They work hard and [students] must work even harder to keep pace and push [them] selves to learn the lessons that are not commonly taught in most business schools in America today.”
The Acton MBA in Entrepreneurship is offered through Hardin Simmons University. Hardin Simmons is accredited by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools.
Visit http://www.princetonreview.com/mba/research/rankings/rankings.asp for the full report.
