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10/25/02

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Cal State L.A. Business Program
Ranks Top Nationally

Los Angeles, CA -- U.S.News & World Report 2003 “Best Colleges” issue has ranked California State University, Los Angeles’ business program among the nation’s best undergraduate programs for the fourth year in a row.

Using a reputational survey sent in the spring of 2002 to determine the rankings, U.S.News ranked the business program of Cal State L.A.’s College of Business and Economics among the top 150 U.S. undergraduate business programs. The program, which was listed as #112 out of 350 undergraduate college business programs rated throughout the United States, is the only such program at a public university making the list in Los Angeles.

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. U.S.News says, “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.

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