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Acton School of Business Recognized in Entrepreneur for
Lofty Ranking in The Princeton Review
04/01/2008
AUSTIN, Texas (April 1, 2008) – The Acton School of Business’ MBA
in Entrepreneurship program has earned high praise from one of the country’s
leading authorities on MBA programs – The Princeton Review – in
an article that appeared this month in Entrepreneur magazine.
Acton (www.actonmba.org) was honored in
multiple categories.
First, Acton was ranked fifth nationally for having the Best Professors, validating the school’s unique approach of bringing in real entrepreneurs to teach classes and grading them annually to determine whether they are maintaining Acton’s high standards.
“Our teachers are one of the biggest reasons we have been able to maintain a national reputation for excellence,” said Acton’s Executive Director, Georgia Spaeth. “We have selected these teachers from a vibrant entrepreneurial community in Austin. Once in the program, they must uphold that standard of excellence or risk being replaced by other seasoned entrepreneurs, who would seize the opportunity to teach at Acton.”
Acton was also ranked as one of the top ten “Best Classroom Experiences” in America.
Spaeth said the school has been praised before for its classroom experience, primarily because of its heavy emphasis on class participation, which makes up more than 50 percent of each student’s grade, and the use of the case method in the classroom.
“Acton requires students to stand in the shoes of the entrepreneur and make tough decisions in over 300 real-life business case studies,” said Spaeth. “We use innovative, hands-on training scenarios, such as building real assembly lines and selling actual products door-to-door; projects that all students must complete in order to graduate.”
