{"id":7881,"date":"2014-12-12T13:37:35","date_gmt":"2014-12-12T18:37:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vanderbilt.edu\/magazines\/vanderbilt-business\/?p=7881"},"modified":"2015-07-07T20:18:39","modified_gmt":"2015-07-07T20:18:39","slug":"just-getting-better","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.owen.vanderbilt.edu\/vanderbiltbusiness\/just-getting-better\/","title":{"rendered":"Just Getting Better"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-7835 alignright\" title=\"owen_lobby500x333jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/magazine.owen.vanderbilt.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/legacy\/i\/owen_lobby500x333jpg.jpg\" alt=\"Students in Management Hall lobby\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" \/>Vanderbilt\u2019s Owen Graduate School of Management placed <strong>No. 20<\/strong> among U.S. programs in the <em>Economist<\/em>\u2019s ranking of full-time MBA programs <strong>(No. 29 globally)<\/strong>\u2014a jump from last year at <strong>23 (and 34, respectively).<\/strong> The annual ranking is based on a student survey of four factors the Economist identifies as the primary reasons students pursue an MBA: to open new career opportunities, for personal development and educational experience, to increase salary and to build a professional network. If you prefer your stats in list form, <em>Princeton Review<\/em> named the Owen school to several of its 2015 Top 10 lists including <strong>No. 4<\/strong>\u2014Best Professors, <strong>No. 9<\/strong>\u2014Best Administered and <strong>No. 10<\/strong>\u2014Best Green MBA.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vanderbilt\u2019s Owen Graduate School of Management placed No. 20 among U.S. programs in the Economist\u2019s ranking of full-time MBA programs (No. 29 globally)\u2014a jump from last year at 23 (and 34, respectively). The annual ranking is based on a student survey of four factors the Economist identifies as the primary reasons students pursue an MBA: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":341,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66,53],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7881","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-departments","category-owen-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.owen.vanderbilt.edu\/vanderbiltbusiness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7881","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.owen.vanderbilt.edu\/vanderbiltbusiness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.owen.vanderbilt.edu\/vanderbiltbusiness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.owen.vanderbilt.edu\/vanderbiltbusiness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/341"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.owen.vanderbilt.edu\/vanderbiltbusiness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7881"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.owen.vanderbilt.edu\/vanderbiltbusiness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7881\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8398,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.owen.vanderbilt.edu\/vanderbiltbusiness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7881\/revisions\/8398"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.owen.vanderbilt.edu\/vanderbiltbusiness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.owen.vanderbilt.edu\/vanderbiltbusiness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.owen.vanderbilt.edu\/vanderbiltbusiness\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}