Lindner College of Business MBA Ranked in Nation's Top 35 Best Value

The Carl H. Lindner College of Business MBA Program was ranked the 31st Best Value in the Nation by the ValueColleges.com website. The list ranks AACSB accredited schools (with program costs under $100,000) based on their total cost, average salary of graduates and national rankings.

“The Lindner College of Business and the University of Cincinnati have leapt ahead in rankings by U.S. News & World Report and Bloomberg Businessweek,” says Value Colleges. “This is a program on the move, and its great value now will only increase, like any great investment.”

This ranking is the latest in a series of accolades the Lindner MBA has earned based on its excellent quality and affordable cost. Recently, College Atlas ranked the Lindner MBA the No. 1 best value MBA program in the nation and U.S. News & World Report named the Lindner MBA one of the nation’s Top 10 MBA programs for Highest Financial Value Upon Graduation in 2012. This new ranking comes on the heels of the Lindner MBA earning the biggest rankings jump of any MBA program in the nation over the past two years in U.S. News & World Report and Bloomberg Businessweek ranking the Lindner MBA as one of the Top 50 programs in the nation.

For a full listing of Lindner’s other

rankings and accolades

, visit the Lindner College of Business website rankings page.

To learn more about the

UC MBA

program, contact

Janaki Vijayaraghavan

, associate director of graduate enrollment, at (513) 556-7188.

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