Founded in 1900, The Wisconsin School of Business is a college within the University of Wisconsin–Madison - one of the world's top leading universities as ranked by the Shanghai Jiao Tong University's ARWU and The Times Higher Education Supplement.

Wisconsin is one of 31 universities named a national Center for International Business Education and Research (CIBER).

Rankings:

- The full-time MBA program has been ranked 17th worldwide and 15th in the U.S. in the 2009-2010 Beyond Grey Pinstripes list of top 100 business schools for environmental, social and ethical management education.

- 95th in the Financial Times Global MBA Rankings 2009.

- 83rd globally for EMBA program (FT 2009).

- The undergraduate program is ranked 13th overall among US business schools, 7th among public institutions, and 3rd among Big Ten business schools (U.S. News & World Report 2009).

- It is placed highly in the US News undergraduate specialties rankings 2009: The Real Estate program is ranked 2nd and the Risk Management and Insurance program is ranked 3rd in the nation. The Marketing program ranked 10th, Quantitative Analysis ranked 11th, the Finance program ranked 15th, the Accounting program ranked 16th and the Management program ranked 17th.

- The Wisconsin MBA is placed 11th among public business schools, 6th in the Big Ten, and 29th among all business schools in the United States (USNWR 2009).

- The full-time MBA program has been ranked 54th among leading graduate business programs around the world, according to the 2009 Economist Intelligence Unit’s annual global MBA ranking.

- 53rd in the US for full-time MBA programs (FT 2008). The marketing program is ranked 7th in the category of “Top 10 Best in Marketing”.

- Research by faculty of the Department of Accounting and Information Systems at the Wisconsin School of Business is ranked No. 1 in the nation in a 2007 study published in the Chronicle of Higher Education.

- The MBA is placed 32nd in the regional category in 2007 Wall Street Journal/Harris Interactive ranking of MBA programs. It is in 25th place in 2006, 33rd in 2004 and 34th in 2005.

- 27th in the national ranking of MBA programs by Forbes magazine 2007, moving up 15 places from 42nd in 2005.

- 20th among U.S. schools and 29th in the world for custom executive education programs. The custom program was also ranked 1st in the “value for money” category and 2nd for food and accommodations. For open enrollment programs, UW-Madison was ranked 15th among the top providers in the U.S. and 28th in the world (FT 2007).

- 28th in the nation and 4th in the Big Ten for undergraduate business program. It is also placed 6th in the nation in terms of return on investment, based on tuition costs and median salaries (BusinessWeek 2007).

- 1st in the world for open-enrollment executive education programs (EIU 2006).

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