Cal State L.A.’s business program is top 5 in California

Sept. 14, 2011 - PRLog -- For more than a decade, Cal State L.A.’s undergraduate business program has been listed among the nation’s best in U.S. News & World Report’s “America’s Best Colleges” issue.

Moving up from #115 to #97, Cal State L.A. is among the top five public institutions in California that made the 2012 list.

To determine the rankings, U.S. News polled deans and senior faculty from undergraduate business programs last spring. Only programs accredited by the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business were considered. According to the U.S. News, the ranking can help prospective corporate executives and entrepreneurs find a school right for them.

Cal State L.A.’s College of Business and Economics offers undergraduate programs in accounting, economics and statistics, finance and law, information systems, management and marketing. The College has taken a leadership position in infusing the most powerful leading-edge, internet-enabled business application software throughout its curriculum. Graduates are well prepared to hold important positions in business, industry and governmental agencies.

Accounting is the third most popular undergraduate program at the University with more than 900 students (behind criminal justice and psychology); and management is fifth with more than 700 students. Overall, roughly 3,200 students—about 16 percent of Cal State L.A.’s enrollment—are majors in the College of Business and Economics.

Cal State L.A.’s business alumni include James A. Bell, executive vice president and chief financial officer, The Boeing Company; Robert W. Brown, president, University of West Los Angeles; Alan J. Fohrer, chairman and CEO, Southern California Edison; Marshall Geller, investment banker/senior managing partner, St. Cloud Capital LLC; and many other outstanding individuals.

According to the U.S. News, Cal State L.A.’s engineering undergraduate program is also ranked among the nation’s best. Within the western region, the University is ranked among the top in the categories of most international students (5 percent are international students), economic diversity (60% percent of CSULA undergraduates are receiving Pell grants) and ethnic diversity (.62 diversity index based on student-body ethnic backgrounds).

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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 220,000 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 the Honors College for high-achieving students, opening this fall. Programs that provide exciting enrichment opportunities to students and community include an NEH-supported humanities center; a NASA-funded center for space research; and a growing forensic science program, housed in the Hertzberg-Davis Forensic Science Center.