PROVIDENCE COLLEGE SCHOOL OF BUSINESS RANKED AS ONE OF “TOP 50 BEST UNDERGRADUATE BUSINESS SCHOOLS” FOR SECOND YEAR IN A ROW

PROVIDENCE, RHODE ISLAND, JANUARY 12 2021 – The Providence College School of Business (PCSB) has again been ranked one of the “top 50 undergraduate business schools in the US” by Poets&Quants. (https://poetsandquantsforundergrads.com/). PCSB has been steadily climbing in this ranking over the last few years, and cracked the top 50 for the first time in 2020.

Poets&Quants uses a comprehensive ranking methodology that takes into account admission standards, academic excellence, and employment outcomes. Results are based on school-reported data and a survey of recent graduates.

“This continued recognition as a Top 50 program is a credit to our faculty and to all our colleagues who strive to provide Providence College business majors with an outstanding business education steeped in the liberal arts,” said Dr. Sylvia Maxfield, the school’s dean. “This independent verification – based in part on the perspectives of our graduates – affirms our belief in the direction and trajectory of PCSB.”

Founded in 1917, Providence College is the only college or university in the United States administered by the Dominican Friars. The Catholic, liberal arts college has an undergraduate enrollment of approximately 4,000 students, and offers degrees in 50 academic majors. Since 1997, Providence College consistently has been ranked among the top five regional universities in the North according to U.S. News & World Report’s “America’s Best Colleges.” 

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