The Naveen Jindal School of Management stands among the elite institutions of higher learning in two new online rankings — and several online specialty rankings — from U.S. News & World Report.
Released Jan. 26, the rankings place the Jindal School’s online graduate programs in the top 10 in the following categories, including all four of the specialties that U.S. News ranked this year:
“This is a good outcome, and I am pleased,” said Dr. Hasan Pirkul, Caruth Chair and dean of the Jindal School. “Our stance has always been to focus on the process and have faith that the results will follow. With online programs playing such a vital role in higher education during the global pandemic, these new rankings confirm that we are on the right track.”
During the past year, faculty and administrators implemented a variety of online graduate programs and other virtual initiatives that helped ease students’ transition to distance learning while COVID-19 numbers began to climb. New programs in management science, business analytics and supply chain management led the way.
“I have had a multitude of professors and classes which I found to be incredibly beneficial, thought-provoking and intellectual,” said Garrett Brown, who graduated in December with an MBA from the Jindal School’s online program and works for Collins Aerospace as a senior subcontract program manager in the company’s Mission Systems division. “I have also appreciated how great a job the school has done from an online and part-time perspective.”
Although he worked full time, Brown said, UT Dallas and the Jindal School “still made the experience exceptional.”
Other initiatives, such as virtual interviewing and networking workshops, the JSOM Question Desk and tutorials from JSOM’s Business Communication Center helped graduate and undergraduate students stay connected while they were socially distancing.
