Fuqua Ranked No. 7 by Business Week

Durham (October 8, 1998)

Duke University's Fuqua School of Business was ranked No. 7 in Business Week's ranking of the best business schools, its highest ranking ever.

"We are obviously gratified by the increase in Fuqua's position in Business Week's rankings from the No. 11 spot we held when the rankings were last conducted in 1996 to the No. 7 position this year," said Dean Rex D. Adams. "We take pride in the excellence of our students, faculty and programs, and we are pleased by this positive recognition represented by the Business Week rankings."

Corporate recruiters ranked Fuqua No. 2 on the list of the five best career placement offices. In addition, the 259 companies that responded to Business Week's survey ranked Fuqua's graduates No. 5 for marketing skills, No. 8 for general management and No. 9 for finance and technology, respectively. Fuqua ranked No. 10 by students' for overall satisfaction level with their schools and No. 7 by corporate recruiters' for overall quality and the success rate of graduates within their organizations.

"We are particularly proud of the strong improvement in our School's ranking with corporate recruiters," continued Adams. "These findings correspond very well with what so many of our companies have told us as a result of their involvement in the recruiting process with Fuqua students.

"I can assure you that we remain confident about the quality of what we have achieved here, and we intend to continue to strengthen our efforts to build a truly great business school at Duke University."