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Students discuss religious topics in a small group. (Photo courtesy of tcuwesley.org)
Wednesday nights at TCU’s Methodist campus ministry provide religious exploration and fellowship
By Boots Giblin, Staff Writer
Published Mar 27, 2024
Students at the Wesley said they found community on Wednesday nights.

    Neeley reputation continues to grow

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    This story has been updated to reflect the proper spelling of Peggy Conway’s name. 

    Neeley’s MBA program has improved recently due to its high quality students and people-oriented faculty.

    “U.S. News and World Report” ranked the school number 63 out of 464 programs. Neeley was ranked at number 76 last year.

    Elaine Cole, the manager of public relations at TCU, said the rankings are based on recruiter surveys, job placement, salaries, quality of students and input from other business school deans.

    William Cron, the senior associate dean of Neeley’s graduate school, said he was very pleased with the ranking.

    “It’s like a football team—you have to bring talent in, all the classes and the training in the middle has got to be right,” Cron said. “And on the other end, the students have to be able to get the right kinds of jobs in order to both achieve their objectives and also help make the program succeed.”

    Cron also stressed the importance of this ranking in relation to prospective Neeley graduate school applicants.

    “Sure, they choose their school based on geography, but definitely these rankings,” Cron said. “They go online. So say someone wants to focus on energy and they look in Texas—they’ll see a lot of schools. Then when they see TCU, they’ll see the rankings and the average starting pay.”

    While Neeley’s MBA program has improved, Cron said he still sees two ways in which it can improve even more in the future.

    “We want to include much more analytics and capabilities in training our MBAs,” Cron said, “because in the next two years businesses will be making more decisions based on data and it will be a requirement for employees.

    “Secondly, I want to see more emphasis placed on the health care sector, because it is the second largest segment – after energy – in the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex,” Cron said.

    Cron said this has been the highest TCU has been ranked by “U.S. News and World Report.” Its highest rankings in the past have been by “Bloomberg Business Week” and “Financial Times.” 

    He also said the starting salary for MBA students after graduation has increased by $25,000 over the past five years.

    Cron said he wants to offer special thanks to the following people who have directly affected the program: Bill Wempe, executive director of graduate programs; Peggy Conway, director of admissions; LaTanya Johns, director of career services; and Ann Rooney, director of student development.