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Cal State L.A. Business Program
Earns National Ranking

Los Angeles, CA -- U.S.News & World Report 2004 “America’s Best Colleges” issue has ranked California State University, Los Angeles’ business program among the nation’s best undergraduate programs for the fifth year in a row.

Using a reputational survey sent in the spring of 2003 to determine the rankings, U.S.News ranked the business program of Cal State L.A.’s College of Business and Economics among the Best Undergraduate Business Programs (non-Ph.D.) in the United States. Cal State L.A.’s undergraduate business—the only such program at a public university making the list in Los Angeles—was listed at #117 tied with Cal Poly-San Luis Obispo, Drexel University, Hofstra University, Loyola Marymount University, and San Jose State University, among others.

To appear on the undergraduate business survey, a school must have an undergraduate business program accredited by the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business. According to the U.S.News, this ranking of the country’s top undergraduate business programs can help prospective corporate executives and entrepreneurs search for the right school for them.

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 for Management Education (AACSB). Of the more than 1,400 colleges and universities in the nation that grant degrees in business and management, fewer than 20 percent are accredited at the undergraduate and graduate levels.

California State University, Los Angeles, is a comprehensive university at the heart of a major metropolitan city. The 175-acre hilltop campus is located five miles east of Los Angeles’ civic and cultural center. Since 1947, Cal State L.A. has been a leader in providing quality higher education. Today, the campus comprises a faculty of internationally recognized scholars and artists, and more than 21,000 students with a wide variety of interests, ages and backgrounds that reflect the city’s dynamic mix of populations. The CSU: A leader in high-quality, accessible, student-focused higher education.

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