https://www.smu.edu/news/latest/smu-names-new-dean-of-cox-school-of-business

"Dr. Milbourn joins SMU from the Olin Business School at Washington University in St. Louis. He is the Hubert C. and Dorothy R. Moog Professor of Finance. Over his 25-year year tenure at Wash U, he has held multiple ...

The business school can't help with AAU status, except creating a PhD program (which will take financial support from the university). AAU status will take a Herculean effort by engineering and/or other hard sciences. A medical school would help and be the sure path IMO, but I'm not sure SMU is ...

Within Cox, we really have been trying hard over the past 6 years to move the lever on these metrics even when we have many considerable constraints. When they start ranking our Online MBA, we should do well there too.

If adding a women's sport, it's GOT to be gymnastics. Dallas is the #1 talent pool in the country. It's a shame we don't have one. We could use the same marketing strategy as the football program even.

SMU will never move forward untill it divorces itself from the unacademic world of the MBA.
Who cares? Truth hurts but B schools are mostly content free B.S. Why worry about whether some college in Richardson has a good b school? They have some [deleted] poor programs in academic subjects.

Rice is ...

It is graduate programs, and primarily the FT MBA. That is the program that the b-school rankings focus on most heavily. Cox is spending more time on the rankings criteria to be mindful of the rankings, for better or worse.

The Bloomberg Businessweek rankings were made public today.

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SMU Cox ranked 31, moving up 11 points from 42 in the last ranking, our biggest move up in any ranking in years.

This ranking factors in input from employers/recruiters, the graduating class of ΓÇÖ21, alumni from the classes of ΓÇÿ13 ...

Cox enrollment was up approximately 40% at the graduate level this year...across all programs. We purposefully shrank the 2 year MBA (to focus on quality) and the MSA remained the same. All other programs had huge enrollment growths. At the undergraduate level, we increased 20% even though we moved ...

For the record, Cox just revamped it's entire MBA and BBA curriculum to focus on three pillars derived from alumni and business representatives: leadership, analytics, and experiential learning. Cox is also at the forefront of the university in terms of peer-rated course evaluations rather than ...

If you believe that should happen (growing Cox and Lyle), shout it from the rooftops. Right now, the general consensus is to NOT grow Cox undergraduate. At many universities these days, grant money drives growth decisions, and b-schools don't bring in grant dollars. That's just the reality.

Most schools have a production studio for online courses. It costs more money than an empty classroom does to maintain those studios, use technology to create video content, voice overs, and applications to deliver that content. If each section of students is only 15-20 students, it also costs money ...

Yes, usually in terms of MBA. I think USC and ASU charge about $5-10k more for online than on campus.

FYI, Noodle is a high-quality provider, and we've been in the works with them for a couple of years. The emphasis has been on a high degree of synchronous time (i.e., face to face with the professor and other students) virtually to maintain a quality educational experience. Class size is limited to ...