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Boston College ranked 37th among best national universities, also highly placed in several specialty rankings by 2025 U.S. News survey
The Carroll School of Management at Boston College is holding strong in the latest聽U.S. News & World Report聽survey, with four departments and programs in the top 10 and two others ranked 11th nationally.
Released Sept. 24, the publication鈥檚聽聽also pegged the Carroll School鈥檚 undergraduate program overall at #27 in the nation, one rung above its showing in last year鈥檚 survey.听U.S. News聽surveyed and ranked 532 schools of management.
Placing 11th or higher in their disciplines were five academic departments: Finance (7th), Business Analytics (9th), and Marketing (10th), along with Accounting (11th) and Management and Organization (also 11th).听Entrepreneurship, a concentration or major with courses in several departments, ranked 10th.
The Carroll School has six academic departments altogether, including Business Law and Society, a subject area not surveyed by聽U.S. News.
鈥淎t the Carroll School, we don鈥檛 live by the rankings, but we鈥檙e pleased to see that our school is gaining broad recognition for the progress we鈥檝e made and the plateaus we鈥檝e reached in recent years,鈥� said John and Linda Powers Family Dean Andy Boynton. 鈥淚t鈥檚 especially heartening to see how all of our surveyed academic departments are going to the top of their disciplines.鈥�
For years, the Finance Department, renamed this fall as the Seidner Department of Finance, has enjoyed lofty rankings in multiple surveys. These include the prestigious which focuses on the quantity and quality of faculty research and currently finds the department at #9 internationally. What鈥檚 new in the past year is that all the other surveyed departments at the Carroll School are either in or knocking on the door of the top ten, according to the national rankings by U.S. News.
For its business school rankings, U.S. News employs a simple methodology, basing its findings 鈥渟olely on the judgments of deans and senior faculty members at peer institutions who participated in a peer assessment survey,鈥�
These rankings are compiled as part of the annual 鈥淏est Colleges鈥� undergraduate survey, which uses a including such factors as how many economically disadvantaged students graduate from the institutions. Boston College as a national university ranked 37th this year, two notches above last year, while also ranking 6th for 鈥渢eaching programs.鈥� For the teaching survey, college presidents, provosts, and admissions deans are asked to nominate 15 schools that 鈥渢hey believe have faculty with an unusually strong commitment to undergraduate teaching,鈥� U.S. News reported.
