Law School Rankings In The United States

<p><b>Law school rankings</b> are a specific subset of college and university rankings dealing specifically with law schools. Like college and university rankings, law school rankings can be based on empirical data, subjectively-perceived qualitative data (often survey research of educators, law professors, lawyers, students, or others), or some combination of these. Such rankings are often consulted by prospective students as they choose which schools they will apply to or which school they will attend.</p> <p>There are several different law school rankings, each with a different emphasis and different methodology. Most either emphasize inputs or readily measurable outcomes (i.e., outcomes shortly after graduation); none measure value-added or long-term outcomes. In general, these rankings are controversial, not universally accepted as authoritative.</p> <p></p> <h2><span id="Rankings_by_U.S._News_and_World_Report">Rankings by <i>U.S. News and World Report</i></span></h2><br><img alt="Law School Rankings In The United States - Top Law Schools - Law school rankings and resources to help you find the best law school for you. Admissions, tuition, and financial aid data on top law schools." src="http://www.usnews.com/dims4/USNEWS/115f2cd/2147483647/thumbnail/204x136%3E/quality/85/?url=%2Fcmsmedia%2F73%2F76%2Fb2dfd33a4c8b8900d6f9b5f62fa9%2Fresizes%2F500%2F150202-man-stock.jpg" style="width:100%;display:block;margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto" title="Law School Rankings In The United States - Top Law Schools"><br> <p>Although the American Bar Association does not officially rank law schools, U.S. News & World Report does. U.S. News & World Report organizes rankings into two main sections. The first section is a "Top 145" that lists the top one hundred forty-five schools in order from highest ranked to lowest ranked. While the top 145 law schools are ranked individually, U.S. News groups the remaining schools, or the bottom 25 percent of those that are ranked, into a "Rank Not Published" group. Schools that fall into this category are listed alphabetically and not by actual ranking. U.S. News also ranks each school's specialty programs using a similar method, if applicable. U.S. News ranked 195 schools in 2012. Each school's U.S. News ranking tends to fluctuate annually. U.S. News's ranking system has incurred various criticisms over the years due in no small part to its arbitrary nature. The American Bar Association has issued disclaimers of law school rating systems. The ABA encourages prospective law students to consider a variety of factors in making their choice among schools.</p> <p>U.S. News rankings are heavily weighted toward "reputation", which is measured through a survey with small sample size and low response rates. The reputation scores are highly correlated with the previous years' reputation scores and may not reflect changes in law school quality over time.</p> <h3><span id="Consistency_at_the_top_of_the_U.S._News_Rankings">Consistency at the top of the <i>U.S. News</i> Rankings</span></h3> <p>Although <i>U.S. News</i> has published an annual version of the rankings since 1987 with the exception of 1988-89, there has been remarkable consistency at the top of the <i>U.S. News Rankings</i>. Yale Law School has been ranked first every single year. Additionally, Harvard, Columbia and Stanford have always appeared in the top five. Some have argued the consistent placement of these schools at the top has simply reinforced their position, leading to a "feedback loop" because of the heavy reliance by <i>U.S. News</i> on opinion surveys. [2]</p> <p>There exists an informal category known as the top 14, or T14. This term refers to the 14 institutions that continually claim the top spots in the yearly U.S. News & World Report ranking of American law schools. Although "T14" is not a designation used by US News itself, the term is "widely known in the legal community." These schools, listed below, have seen their ranking within the top fourteen spots shift frequently, but have not placed outside of the top fourteen since the inception of the annual rankings with the exception of Cornell trading places with UCLA during the inaugural rankings in 1987. Because of their variable placement within the top fourteen, but remarkable consistency of these fourteen schools at the top of all 180+ schools, they are occasionally referred to collectively as the "Top Fourteen" in published books on Law School Admissions, undergraduate university pre-law advisers, professional law school consultants, and newspaper articles on the subject.</p> <h4><span id="Schools_that_rank_in_the_top_14_.28aka_.22T14.22.29">Schools that rank in the top 14 (aka "T14")</span></h4> <p>The schools that have consistently ranked in the "Top Fourteen" since the inception of the rankings are (in alphabetical order, ignoring terms denoting the type of school, such as "University"):</p> <ul><li>University of California, Berkeley, Boalt Hall School of Law, in Berkeley, California.</li> <li>University of Chicago Law School, University of Chicago, in Chicago, Illinois.</li> <li>Columbia Law School, Columbia University, in New York, New York.</li> <li>Cornell Law School, Cornell University, in Ithaca, New York.</li> <li>Duke University School of Law, Duke University, in Durham, North Carolina.</li> <li>Georgetown University Law Center, Georgetown University, in Washington, DC.</li> <li>Harvard Law School, Harvard University, in Cambridge, Massachusetts.</li> <li>University of Michigan Law School, University of Michigan, in Ann Arbor, Michigan.</li> <li>New York University School of Law, New York University, in New York, New York.</li> <li>Northwestern University School of Law, Northwestern University, in Chicago, Illinois.</li> <li>University of Pennsylvania Law School, University of Pennsylvania, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.</li> <li>Stanford Law School, Stanford University, in Palo Alto, California.</li> <li>University of Virginia School of Law, University of Virginia, in Charlottesville, Virginia.</li> <li>Yale Law School, Yale University, in New Haven, Connecticut.</li> </ul><h4><span id="Characteristics_of_the_top_schools_in_the_U.S._News_Rankings">Characteristics of the top schools in the <i>U.S. News</i> Rankings</span></h4> <p>There exist common characteristics across these top schools. Reputation is a key driver of their placement, according to Anna Ivey, noted law school admissions counselor, who declared, "A degree from a top-14 school will be portable nationally" in a <i>Washington Post</i> interview. Nonetheless, there are schools outside of the top 14 whose graduates predominantly place nationally rather than locally.</p> <h2><span id="Criticisms_of_rankings">Criticisms of rankings</span></h2><br><img alt="Law School Rankings In The United States - Best Law School Rankings | Law Program Rankings | US News - Unofficial rankings of ABA approved law schools based upon reputation, selectivity, placement success, and faculty resources." src="http://grad-schools.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/static/images/grad/badges/law-2016.png" style="width:100%;display:block;margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto" title="Law School Rankings In The United States - Best Law School Rankings | Law Program Rankings | US News"><br> <p>Among the criticisms of law school rankings is that they are arbitrary in the characteristics they measure and the value given to each one. Another complaint is that a prospective law student should take into account the "fit" and appropriateness of each school himself, and that there is thus not a "one size fits all" ranking. Others complain that common rankings shortchange schools due to geographical or demographic reasons. One critic has gone so far as to create a website that sarcastically ranks US magazines. <i>U.S. News</i> is placed alone in the "Third Tier."</p> <p>The American Bar Association (ABA), has consistently refused to support or participate in law school rankings. Further, the Association of American Law Schools has also voiced criticisms of <i>U.S. News'</i>s ranking system. Carl Monk, its former executive director, once went so far as to say "these rankings are a misleading and deceptive, profit-generating commercial enterprise that compromises U.S. News and World Report's journalistic integrity."</p> <p>As a response to the prevalence of law school rankings, the ABA and the LSAC publish an annual law school guide. This guide, which does not seek to rank or sort law schools by any criteria, instead seeks to provide the reader with a set of standard, important data on which to judge law schools. It contains information on all 200 ABA-Approved Law Schools. This reference, called The Official Guide to ABA-Approved Law Schools is provided free online and also in print for a small cost. A similar guide for Canadian Law Schools is also published by the Law School Admission Council and is called Official Guide to Canadian Law Schools. These guides seek to serve as an alternative to the <i>U.S. News</i> Rankings and law school rankings in general.</p> <p>Additionally, the American Bar Association issued the MacCrate Report in 1992, which outlined many fundamental problems with modern legal education and called for reform in American law schools. While the report was hailed as a "template for modern legal education", its practice-oriented tenets have met resistance by law schools continually ranked in the "top 14."</p> <p><i>U.S. News</i> has not allowed these criticisms to go unanswered. They regularly outline and justify their methodology alongside the rankings, and have even published defenses of their value. Additionally, law professors William Henderson and Andrew Morriss have come out with a study criticizing law schools' (and the ABA's) refusal to adopt any better objective comparison method for the continued widespread reliance on U.S. News. Henderson and Morriss allege that law schools' attempts to "game" their U.S. News ranking by manipulating postgraduation employment statistics or applicant selectivity have led U.S. News to adjust its methodology accordingly, resulting in a counter-productive cycle. They go on to suggest that the ABA should use its accreditation power to mandate greater transparency in law schools' statistical reporting.</p> <p>In March 2011, Loyola Law School Dean Victor Gold penned an op-ed in the Huffington Post, accusing <i>U.S. News & World Report</i> of "refus[ing] to consider diversity as a factor in its ranking system." Gold asserted that "[t]here is a broad consensus among law school deans and professors that diversity enriches law school education." Loyola, which has a large Asian student body, claims 37% of its students are "minorities," but it does not provide any specifics.</p> <h2><span id="Impact_of_rankings">Impact of rankings</span></h2><br><img alt="Law School Rankings In The United States - Tarry Research & Education Building, Northwestern University ... - Tarry Research & Education Building, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois. 1 like · 7 were here. Local Business." src="https://fbcdn-profile-a.akamaihd.net/static-ak/rsrc.php/v2/y-/r/qXbA9JmRIZi.png" style="width:100%;display:block;margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto" title="Law School Rankings In The United States - Tarry Research & Education Building, Northwestern University ..."><br> <p>Despite these criticisms, law school rankings in general and those by <i>U.S. News</i> in particular play a role in the world of legal education. When a school's ranking drops, fewer admitted applicants accept spots at the school, and people may get fired. Likewise, when a school rises in the rankings, the school often accidentally over-enrolls. This pressure has also resulted in various schools "gaming the rankings." In a March 2003 article in Student Lawyer, Jane Easter Bahls stated that, in order to appear more selective, some law schools reject applicants whose high LSAT scores indicate that they probably would go somewhere else. Other schools, in an attempt to increase the amount of money spent per student, increase tuition and return it to the students as financial aid.</p> <h2><span id="Alternatives_to_the_U.S._News_Rankings">Alternatives to the <i>U.S. News</i> Rankings</span></h2><br><br> <p>There are several different law school rankings, each with a different emphasis and different methodology. Most either emphasize inputs or readily measurable outcomes (i.e., outcomes shortly after graduation); none measure value-added or long-term outcomes. In general, these rankings are controversial, not universally accepted as authoritative.</p> <h3><span id="Employment_Outcome-Drive_Rankings">Employment Outcome-Drive Rankings</span></h3> <p>Several ranking systems are explicitly designed to focus on employment outcomes at or shortly after graduation, including rankings by the National Law Journal, <i>Vault</i>, law.com, and the legal blog Above the Law.</p> <h4><span id="National_Law_Journal.27s_Go-To_Law_School_Rankings">National Law Journal's Go-To Law School Rankings</span></h4> <p>The National Law Journal ranks the top 50 law schools by the percentage of juris doctor graduates who took jobs at NLJ 250 firms, the nation’s largest by headcount as identified by The National Law Journal’s annual survey. In 2013, University of Pennsylvania Law School is ranked first, and is followed by University of Chicago Law School and Columbia Law School.</p> <p>The National Law Journal provides a comparison of its employment-based rankings to U.S. News rankings. For students who are primarily interested in lucrative employment outcomes rather than scholarly prestige, this comparison may suggest which law schools are most undervalued by the market.</p> <h3><span id="Scholarship_Driven_Rankings">Scholarship Driven Rankings</span></h3> <h4><span id="Social_Science_Research_Network">Social Science Research Network</span></h4> <p>The Social Science Research Networkâ€"a repository for draft and completed scholarship in law and the social sciencesâ€"publishes monthly rankings of law schools based on the number of times faculty members' scholarship was downloaded. Rankings are available by total number of downloads, total number of downloads within the last 12 months, and downloads per faculty member to adjust for the size of different institutions. SSRN also provides rankings of individual law school faculty members on these metrics.</p> <h4><span id="Leiter_Rankings">Leiter Rankings</span></h4> <p>Professor Brian Leiter compiles a regular series of evaluations called "Brian Leiter's Law School Reports" in which he and other commentators discuss law schools. Leiter's rankings tend to emphasize the quality and quantity of faculty scholarship, as measured by citations in a select group of journals.</p> <h3><span id="Judging_the_Law_School_Rankings">Judging the Law School Rankings</span></h3> <p><i>Judging the Law School Rankings</i> are sometimes called the Brennan rankings or the Cooley rankings, in reference to the President of Cooley Law School who was involved in their creation. Thomas M. Cooley Law School â€" a school consistently placed in the fourth tier by <i>U.S. News</i> â€" created its own set of rankings. The first edition of these rankings, called "Judging the Law Schools" was published in 1996 by Thomas E. Brennan, founder and president of the Cooley Law School. This online publication, now in its tenth edition, measures only ABA data such as first time bar passage rates, LSAT scores, academic facilities, student and faculty diversity, as well as twenty other objective measures. It is available on the Cooley Law School website. Academic Brian Leiter calls their system, which does not poll perceived reputation and places Cooley Law School higher than schools such as Stanford and Berkeley, "preposterous."</p> <p>The ranking system advocated by the school has come under criticism for the methodology used to determine placement. The school maintains that judging a legal education by what caliber of students enter will not adequately address the quality of lawyers which come out. However, the Cooley ranking system has been criticized for never actually mathematically addressing this issue. Instead, a host of less relevant criteria, like volumes in library, were introduced to offset the UGPA and LSAT indicators. In the tenth edition of the Cooley ranking system, Cooley Law ranked itself 12th in the United States ahead of law schools such as Stanford Law School, University of Michigan Law School, and Duke University School of Law. In the twelfth edition, it ranked itself second.</p> <h3><span id="Gourman_Report">Gourman Report</span></h3> <p>Dr. Jack Gourman, a professor at California State University, Northridge, published the Gourman Report, a ranking of undergraduate and graduate schools. The last edition to include law school rankings was published in 1997. Among the criticisms particular to the Gourman Report rankings are that the school rankings in each subcategory (administration, faculty, library, alumni, etc.) are identical to the overall rankings, it favors large, public universities and the use of an opaque methodology that prevents the reader from careful analysis.</p> <h3><span id="Hylton_Rankings">Hylton Rankings</span></h3> <p>Another set of rankings is the Hylton Rankings, prepared by Dr. J. Gordon Hylton of Marquette University's Law School. Hylton billed his rankings as <i>U.S. News</i> data "without the clutter." The rankings consider only LSAT (converted median) and peer assessment (as measured by U.S. News' survey of law professors). The much-discussed "top fourteen schools," though ordered differently, remain the same. The five highest ranked law schools are Harvard, Yale, Stanford, Columbia, and the University of Chicago in that order.</p> <h3><span id="Leiter_Rankings_2">Leiter Rankings</span></h3> <p>Leiter's Law School Rankings is a <i>set</i> of rankings published by Brian Leiter, a law professor at University of Chicago School of Law. Each ranking is based on a single factor such as how many Supreme Court clerks, or how many employees in top law firms came from each school, or the LSAT scores of students entering the school.</p> <p>Critics of the Leiter Rankings say that they reflect biases, as the reader can choose to follow whichever criteria are important to them. The Leiter Rankings are also criticised for not giving schools a single overall ranking. Adherents of the Leiter Rankings see these as the <i>advantages</i>.</p> <h3><span id="QS_World_University_Rankings">QS World University Rankings</span></h3> <p>The 2013 QS World University Rankings for Law ranked Harvard Law School first, followed by the University of Cambridge, the University of Oxford, Yale Law School and Melbourne Law School.</p> <h3><span id="Vault_rankings">Vault rankings</span></h3> <p>The career information and survey site Vault.com released its first set of law school rankings in 2008. Based solely on the surveys of nearly 400 hiring partners and recruiting professionals from across the United States, the rankings reflect how survey participants rated incoming associates on their research and writing skills, knowledge of legal doctrine, possession of other relevant knowledge (e.g., science for IP lawyers), and ability to manage a calendar and work with an assistant. Without turning directly to statistics or educational quality, the Vault rankings attempt to quantify which schools produce the most marketable graduates in the private sector. As of 2008, only the law schools with the top 25 cumulative scores received recognition.</p> <h2><span id="References">References</span></h2><br><img alt="Law School Rankings In The United States - Top 10 Law Schools Ä°n The USA - YouTube - Jan 11, 2015 ... ... 10 Law Schools Ä°n The USA,Best Law Schools,U.S. News Best Law Schools 2015 ,Top Law Schools,Law school rankings in the United States." src="http://i.ytimg.com/vi/eVTbpA_1oEA/hqdefault.jpg" style="width:100%;display:block;margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto" title="Law School Rankings In The United States - Top 10 Law Schools Ä°n The USA - YouTube"><br> <h2><span id="External_links">External links</span></h2><br><img alt="Law School Rankings In The United States - Download (194Kb) - Oct 10, 2012 ... (htp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_school_rankings_in_the_United_States) where league tables exist. In fact, in the US, there is presently legal ..." src="x-raw-image:///702c5aaf987c7287ec87116496e57a0c233912b82a3dc80e037bbba29b854fcf" style="width:100%;display:block;margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto" title="Law School Rankings In The United States - Download (194Kb)"><br> <ul><li>Law School Rankings Symposium â€" Website for national symposium on law school rankings, including copies of papers and abstracts</li> <li>College Rankings: Caution and Controversy â€" Education and Social Science Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign</li> <li>NALP (National Association for Law Placement) Directory of Law Schools â€" non-profit educational association listing</li> <li>Brian Leiter's Law School Rankings â€" collection of rankings by various measurements</li> </ul></h2><br><br>

Law School Rankings In The United States

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Association Of Christian Schools International

<p class="mobile-photo"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4gAcZ1S46fuHPNbHNJzMYKMXAtZSsC8rKQssdragKeGE28eQklEEb5ZHf6bOowv3oU2anjuBmOVeJgkDBXd2HzogrWacN-_42KW-R7kcJ1u_PvcfjhS-TeEazygfI_ai28f00SoU9lus/s1600/Homepage_ConNEXUS-703006.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_6132615452818894194" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4gAcZ1S46fuHPNbHNJzMYKMXAtZSsC8rKQssdragKeGE28eQklEEb5ZHf6bOowv3oU2anjuBmOVeJgkDBXd2HzogrWacN-_42KW-R7kcJ1u_PvcfjhS-TeEazygfI_ai28f00SoU9lus/s320/Homepage_ConNEXUS-703006.jpg" /></a></p><p>The <b>Association of Christian Schools International</b> (<b>ACSI</b>) is an association of evangelical Protestant Christian schools.</p> <p></p> <h2><span id="Purposes">Purposes</span></h2><br><img alt="Association Of Christian Schools International - Association of Christian Schools International - Wikipedia, the free ... - Association of Christian Schools International (logo).png. Abbreviation, ACSI. Motto, To strengthen Christian schools and equip Christian educators worldwide  ..." src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/d/de/Association_of_Christian_Schools_International_(logo).png/230px-Association_of_Christian_Schools_International_(logo).png" style="width:100%;display:block;margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto" title="Association Of Christian Schools International - Association of Christian Schools International - Wikipedia, the free ..."><br> <p>ACSI is a Protestant association for Christian schools. Its stated mission is to strengthen Christian schools and equip Christian educators worldwide as they prepare students academically and inspire them to become devoted followers of Jesus Christ. The principles it supports include a belief that Scripture is the revealed Word of God and should be taught as truth.</p> <p>The association offers multiple services, including accreditation for early-education programs and primary and secondary schools, certification, curriculum, legal/legislative services, and urban school services.</p> <p>Because ACSI does not accredit colleges or universities, it is not recognized as an accreditor of higher education institutions by the Council for Higher Education Accreditation or the United States Department of Education. However, the organization does allow institutions of higher learning to be members. In 1994 ACSI's primary school and secondary school programs became officially recognized by the National Council for Private School Accreditation (NCPSA). The United States Department of Education does not recognize or certify agencies for the accreditation of primary and secondary schools, including regional accrediting agencies.</p> <h2><span id="History">History</span></h2><br><img alt="Association Of Christian Schools International - ACSI Career Center « ACSI - ACSI Career Center. OpportunitySign_small. Welcome to the ACSI Career Center, an excellent place for job seekers to find work and for schools to find qualified ..." src="http://www.acsiglobal.org/wp-content/uploads/OpportunitySign_small.jpg" style="width:100%;display:block;margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto" title="Association Of Christian Schools International - ACSI Career Center « ACSI"><br> <p>ACSI was founded in 1978 through the merger of three associations: The National Christian School Education Association; The Ohio Association of Christian Schools; and the Western Association of Christian Schools. Soon after the new association formed, several other Christian school associations joined ACSI: The Southeast Association of Christian Schools; the Association of Teachers of Christian Schools (Midwest); the Great Plains Association of Christian Schools; and the Texas Association of Christian Schools.</p> <p>ACSI was first headquartered in La Habra, California, and moved to its larger headquarters in Colorado Springs, Colorado, in 1994. Today, in addition to the headquarters facility, ACSI has 28 regional offices worldwide and serves 23,400 member schools in more than 100 countries. ACSI is a 501(c)(3)nonprofit organization governed by a 36-member Executive Board elected by member schools.</p> <h2><span id="Lawsuit">Lawsuit</span></h2><br><br> <p>In spring 2006 the Association of Christian Schools International sued the University of California system alleging that the rejection of several Christian science courses was "viewpoint discrimination" which violated the constitutional rights of applicants from Christian schools whose high school coursework is deemed inadequate preparation for college. The lawsuit was brought by the parents of six children who had not been rejected from the university. In August 2006, the case <i>Association of Christian Schools International v. Roman Stearns</i> was allowed to proceed against the university while lawsuits against individual school officials were thrown out.</p> <p>The National Center for Science Education noted, "One of the lawyers representing the plaintiffs is Wendell Bird, a former staff attorney for the Institute for Creation Research. As a special assistant attorney general for Louisiana, he defended the state's "equal time" law, which was ruled to be unconstitutional in <i>Edwards v. Aguillard</i>. The National Center for Science Education works in collaboration with National Academy of Sciences, the National Association of Biology Teachers and the National Science Teachers Association, which consider creationism and intelligent design to be pseudoscience.</p> <p>The Association retained leading intelligent design proponent Michael Behe to testify in the case as an expert witness. Behe's expert witness report claimed that the Christian textbooks were excellent works for high school students and he defended that view in a deposition.</p> <p>On March 28, 2008 the defendants won a legal victory when their motion for partial summary judgment was granted, and the plaintiffs' motion for summary judgment was denied. On August 8, 2008, Judge Otero entered summary judgment against plaintiff ACSI.</p> <h2><span id="References">References</span></h2><br><br> <h2><span id="External_links">External links</span></h2><br><br> <ul><li>www.acsiglobal.org ACSI home page</li> </ul></h2><br><br>

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Smeal College Of Business

<p>The <b>Smeal College of Business</b> at the Pennsylvania State University offers undergraduate, graduate, and executive education programs to more than 5,000 students. Smeal, which is accredited by the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB), is home to more than 150 faculty members who teach and conduct academic research on a range of business topics. The college also features a network of industry supported research centers.</p> <p></p> <h2><span id="History">History</span></h2><br><img alt="Smeal College Of Business - Smeal College of Business - The internationally ranked Penn State Smeal College of Business prepares students for professional success now and across their careers. Within a vibrant ..." src="http://www.personal.psu.edu/seh25/psu.jpg" style="width:100%;display:block;margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto" title="Smeal College Of Business - Smeal College of Business"><br> <p>The business college at Penn State was founded in 1953 with Ossian R. MacKenzie as dean. Subsequent deans of the college were Eugene J. Kelley, J.D. Hammond, Judy Olian, James B. Thomas, and currently Charles H. Whiteman. In 1990, it was named the Mary Jean and Frank P. Smeal College of Business after alumni and benefactors Mary Jean and Frank Smeal.</p> <h2><span id="Campus">Campus</span></h2><br><img alt="Smeal College Of Business - The Pennsylvania State University: Smeal College of Business - Full ... - ... State University - a comprehensive full time business school profile. A guide to Smeal College of Business admissions, tuition, students, academics & address." src="http://images.businessweek.com/bschools/images/bschools/profiles/2012/2099804/405x225.jpg" style="width:100%;display:block;margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto" title="Smeal College Of Business - The Pennsylvania State University: Smeal College of Business - Full ..."><br> <p>The Smeal College of Business is based on the Penn State University Park campus, which is adjacent to the town of State College, Pennsylvania. Smeal is headquartered in the Business Building, a 210,000 square-foot facility located near the eastern end of campus.</p> <p>The building, which was dedicated in 2005, was designed by Robert A.M. Stern Architects and features classroom and office space as well as video-conferencing technologies, team study and recruiter interview rooms, a restaurant, and the college’s Rogers Family Trading Room.</p> <h2><span id="Educational_Programs">Educational Programs</span></h2><br><br> <p>The Smeal College of Business offers the following degree programs:</p> <p><b>Undergraduate</b>: Baccalaureate major options include accounting, finance, management and organization, management information systems, marketing, risk management, and supply chain and information systems. Students can also pursue a minor in business including international business, legal environment of business, supply chain and information sciences and technology, and information systems management.</p> <p><b>Master of Business Administration</b>: The University Park-based residential graduate program provides students with the opportunity to specialize in a particular area of business. Areas of concentration include finance, marketing, entrepreneurship and corporate innovation, strategic leadership, and supply chain management. The Smeal MBA Program also offers several joint-degree programs in conjunction with other academic units at Penn State: JD/MBA with the Penn State Dickinson School of Law, BS/MBA with the Penn State Eberly College of Science, and MD/MBA with the Penn State College of Medicine.</p> <p><b>Executive Master of Business Administration</b>: Most class sessions for the 21-month graduate program are delivered on alternate weekends at the ACE Conference Center in Lafayette Hill, Pennsylvania. The program format is designed for working students with at least eight years of post-undergraduate professional experience.</p> <p><b>Master of Accounting</b>: Coursework for the Integrated Master of Accounting Program begins in the fall semester of the undergraduate junior year. Graduation occurs after the fifth year with students earning both a bachelor’s and master’s degree in accounting simultaneously. Smeal also offers a One-Year Master of Accounting Program for students who already have an undergraduate degree from Penn State or another institution.</p> <p><b>Master of Professional Studies in Supply Chain Management</b>: Delivered primarily online, the two-year graduate degree program is designed for students working in the supply chain field. Courses are taught by faculty members from the Smeal Department of Supply Chain and Information Systems.</p> <p><b>Doctoral</b>: Smeal Ph.D. students specialize in one of six primary fields: accounting, finance, management and organization, marketing, real estate, and supply chain and information systems. The doctoral program focuses on developing academic research and publishing capabilities.</p> <p>Smeal also offers non-degree business education programs:</p> <p><b>Penn State Executive Programs</b>: The executive education unit within Smeal offers multiple-day, non-degree executive education programs and business consulting services to organizations.</p> <h2><span id="Faculty">Faculty</span></h2><br><img alt="Smeal College Of Business - The Pennsylvania State University: Smeal College of Business ... - Smeal College of Business at The Pennsylvania State University - a comprehensive undergraduate business school profile. A guide to Smeal College of ..." src="http://images.businessweek.com/bschools/images/bschools/profiles/2012/2099804/405x225.jpg" style="width:100%;display:block;margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto" title="Smeal College Of Business - The Pennsylvania State University: Smeal College of Business ..."><br> <p>There are more than 150 faculty members who teach and conduct research within six academic departments at Smeal: Accounting, Finance, Management and Organization, Marketing, Risk Management, and Supply Chain and Information Systems.</p> <p>The University of Texas at Dallas Top 100 Business School Research Rankings have ranked Smeal No. 14 overall in the nation for faculty research productivity. The survey data is based on faculty research contributions in leading business journals.</p> <h2><span id="Research_Centers">Research Centers</span></h2><br><img alt="Smeal College Of Business - Smeal College of Business - University Park, PA - College ... - Smeal College of Business, University Park, PA. 6042 likes · 107 talking about this · 2915 were here. The Penn State Smeal College of Business offers..." src="https://fbcdn-profile-a.akamaihd.net/hprofile-ak-prn2/v/t1.0-1/p200x200/529527_10150887500370278_827278695_n.jpg?oh=ed21e5d5214b9a9870ff41880f649568&oe=55AFFAEF&__gda__=1437582573_ae3e05ccc74f64fd5d19108435424898" style="width:100%;display:block;margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto" title="Smeal College Of Business - Smeal College of Business - University Park, PA - College ..."><br> <p>Smeal is home to a network of research centers, including the Center for Supply Chain Research, the Institute for the Study of Business Markets, and the Institute for Real Estate Studies.</p> <h2><span id="Alumni">Alumni</span></h2><br><img alt="Smeal College Of Business - Smeal College of Business - Forbes - The focus of Penn State's Smeal College of Business on the analytics behind marketing, and the well-rounded approach to arm MBAs with the right tools in ..." src="http://i.forbesimg.com/media/lists/colleges/pennsylvania-state-university-main-campus/smeal-college-of-business_416x416.jpg" style="width:100%;display:block;margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto" title="Smeal College Of Business - Smeal College of Business - Forbes"><br> <p>The Smeal College of Business has more than 73,000 alumni around the world with regional chapters in Washington, DC; Philadelphia; and Pittsburgh. Prominent alumni include:</p> <ul><li>John Arnold â€" Chairman and CEO, Petroleum Products Corp.</li> <li>Mitch Cohen â€" Vice Chairman, PricewaterhouseCoopers</li> <li>Louis D’Ambrosio â€" CEO of Sears Holdings Corporation</li> <li>Lou Grabowsky â€" Managing Partner, Grant Thornton</li> <li>Albert Lord â€" CEO of Sallie Mae</li> <li>Karen Quintos â€" Senior VP and Chief Marketing Officer, Dell, Inc.</li> <li>Matt Schuyler â€" Chief Human Resources Officer, Hilton Worldwide</li> <li>Stephen Sheetz â€" Chairman, Sheetz, Inc.</li> <li>John Surma â€" Former CEO of U.S. Steel</li> <li>Patricia Woertz â€" President and CEO, Archer Daniels Midland</li> <li>Dan Mead - President and CEO Verizon Wireless</li> </ul><p>Alumni and friends of Smeal comprise advisory boards at the college, including the Smeal Board of Visitors and the Alumni Society Board. These boards provide counsel and guidance on a number of strategic decisions at the college.</p> <h2><span id="See_also">See also</span></h2><br><img alt="Smeal College Of Business - Penn State Smeal (@SmealCollege) | Twitter - The latest Tweets from Penn State Smeal (@SmealCollege). Penn State Smeal College of Business. University Park, Pa." src="https://pbs.twimg.com/profile_images/2559116922/8jmf728k7fesii2fxocr_400x400.jpeg" style="width:100%;display:block;margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto" title="Smeal College Of Business - Penn State Smeal (@SmealCollege) | Twitter"><br> <ul><li>List of United States business school rankings</li> <li>List of business schools in the United States</li> </ul><h2><span id="References">References</span></h2><br><br> <ol class="references"><li id="cite_note-BusinessWeek-1"><span>^ ^{<i><b>a</b></i>} ^{<i><b>b</b></i>}</span> <span>http://www.businessweek.com/bschools/rankings/</span></li> <li id="cite_note-2"><span><b>^</b></span> <span>http://colleges.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/best-colleges/rankings/business</span></li> <li id="cite_note-3"><span><b>^</b></span> <span>http://online.wsj.com/public/page/rankings-career-college-majors.html?refresh=on</span></li> <li id="cite_note-4"><span><b>^</b></span> <span>http://www.economist.com/whichmba/full-time-mba-ranking</span></li> <li id="cite_note-5"><span><b>^</b></span> <span>http://rankings.ft.com/businessschoolrankings/global-mba-rankings-2012</span></li> <li id="cite_note-6"><span><b>^</b></span> <span>http://www.forbes.com/lists/2011/95/best-business-schools-11_land.html</span></li> <li id="cite_note-7"><span><b>^</b></span> <span>http://grad-schools.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/best-graduate-schools/top-business-schools/mba-rankings</span></li> <li id="cite_note-8"><span><b>^</b></span> <span>http://www.smeal.psu.edu/uge/majors</span></li> <li id="cite_note-9"><span><b>^</b></span> <span>http://www.smeal.psu.edu/depts</span></li> <li id="cite_note-10"><span><b>^</b></span> <span>http://jindal.utdallas.edu/the-utd-top-100-business-school-research-rankings/worldwide-rankings/</span></li> <li id="cite_note-11"><span><b>^</b></span> <span>http://www.smeal.psu.edu/research</span></li> </ol><h2><span id="External_links">External links</span></h2><br><img alt="Smeal College Of Business - Pennsylvania State University--University Park (Smeal) | Best ... - The Smeal College of Business at Pennsylvania State University--University Park offers these departments and concentrations: entrepreneurship, finance, ..." src="http://otile4.mqcdn.com/tiles/1.0.0/map/13/2323/3076.png" style="width:100%;display:block;margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto" title="Smeal College Of Business - Pennsylvania State University--University Park (Smeal) | Best ..."><br> <ul><li>Penn State University</li> <li>Princeton Review of Smeal College</li> </ul></h2><br><br>

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Pamplin College Of Business

<p class="mobile-photo"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_sUVNbHa7ggnFi7-1IFQXTgwvLs7_mv0QYamvxsxVshmclsETV0CPpfkCPaDpbuNnxT2D3YB0YiC3Mv4FXPUmwUVgDGeQv6QQr_50U1Irk3WwEmKaA0JdkihwR34d8jiRm3P0UmU4hAA/s1600/300px-Virginiatech-burrusshall-fromdrillfield-702064.JPG"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_6132569064266873842" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_sUVNbHa7ggnFi7-1IFQXTgwvLs7_mv0QYamvxsxVshmclsETV0CPpfkCPaDpbuNnxT2D3YB0YiC3Mv4FXPUmwUVgDGeQv6QQr_50U1Irk3WwEmKaA0JdkihwR34d8jiRm3P0UmU4hAA/s320/300px-Virginiatech-burrusshall-fromdrillfield-702064.JPG" /></a></p><p>The <b>Pamplin College of Business</b> is one of Virginia Tech’s eight colleges. The college is named after Robert B. Pamplin and his son Robert B. Pamplin, Jr., who have donated over $28 million to their alma mater. The college is consistently ranked as one of the top business schools in the country. In 2011-2012, the college consisted of 152 faculty members and 4,168 students. The college's degree programs are accredited by The Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB) International and the Accreditation Commission for Programs in Hospitality Administration.</p> <p></p> <h2><span id="History">History</span></h2><br><img alt="Pamplin College Of Business - Pamplin College of Business - PAMPLIN COLLEGE OF BUSINESS. People Pages Sign In · Bullet ... 2015 Virginia Tech, Pamplin College of Business | Contact the Webmaster | EOAA statement." src="http://www.pamplin.vt.edu/images/Pamplin-50-logo-gold.png" style="width:100%;display:block;margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto" title="Pamplin College Of Business - Pamplin College of Business"><br> <p>In 1925, the first bachelor's degree in business administration was offered at the university followed by the first master's degree in 1931. In 1961, the school of business was created with 28 faculty members and 823 students. The school soon became an official college of the university in 1965. Then, on 1969, the building housing the college was named for Robert B. Pamplin, a 1933 business graduate who later became chairman and chief executive officer of Georgia-Pacific Corporation. In 1986, the college itself was renamed for Pamplin in recognition of a $20 million gift he gave to the college along with his son, Robert B. Pamplin Jr., another Virginia Tech graduate and the president of the R. B. Pamplin Corporation.</p> <h2><span id="Academics">Academics</span></h2><br><img alt="Pamplin College Of Business - VT MBA Programs - Virginia Tech, Pamplin College of Business, MBA programs. Compare · Contact Us · Request Info · Apply Now · Virginia Tech ranked #16 nationally part-time ..." src="http://www.mba.vt.edu/img/walsh.jpg" style="width:100%;display:block;margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto" title="Pamplin College Of Business - VT MBA Programs"><br> <p>The Pamplin College of Business is primarily located in Pamplin Hall on Virginia Tech’s Blacksburg campus, but it is also located in the National Capital Region. The college comprises 6 different departments. Five of the ten most recruited majors at Virginia Tech are in the Pamplin College of Business. According to 2011 undergraduate profiles in Bloomberg Businessweek, the average undergraduate class size in required business classes (excluding online courses) was 147 students, and the average class size in business electives was 57 students.</p> <h3><span id="Department_of_Accounting_and_Information_Systems">Department of Accounting and Information Systems</span></h3> <p>The Department of Accounting and Information Systems offers undergraduates bachelor’s degrees in business with options available in accounting, information systems audit, and information systems. The department also has a Master of Accounting and Information Systems (MACIS) program and a doctoral program. After graduation, 98 percent of students from this department secured a job or space in the graduate program that they wanted.</p> <h3><span id="Department_of_Business_Information_Technology">Department of Business Information Technology</span></h3> <p>Through the Department of Business Information and Technology, undergraduate students can earn bachelor’s degrees in business information technology. Majors can choose an option in decision support systems or operations and supply chain management. The department also offers a doctoral degree. In 2009-2010, the department had the fourth highest number of total on-campus interviews at the university. Students in the department had an average of 3.98 interviews, which is the highest at Virginia Tech. In addition, 86 percent of the department’s majors were employed or had job offers at the time of graduation, which was the highest percentage of all the departments at Virginia Tech. TechRepublic also listed the department as having one of the top 10 college programs for IT in the U.S.</p> <h3><span id="Department_of_Finance">Department of Finance</span></h3> <p>The Department of Finance contains an undergraduate program in finance that results in a bachelor’s degree, an MBA program with a finance concentration, and a doctoral program. The department is associated with three student organizations for undergraduates: Student Endowment for Educational Development (SEED), BASIS (Bond and Securities Investing by Students), and The Finance Club. The former two organizations allow students to manage make actual investment decisions with funds from the Virginia Tech Foundation.</p> <h3><span id="Department_of_Hospitality_and_Tourism_Management">Department of Hospitality and Tourism Management</span></h3> <p>Students in the Department of Hospitality and Tourism Management can earn a bachelor’s degree, a master of science, or a doctoral degree. The department also has an MBA program at the National Capital Region campus. On the Blacksburg campus, undergraduates can join four student organizations affiliated with the department: the Hospitality Management Association, a chapter of the Club Management Association of America, and a chapter of the housing and tourism management honorary society Eta Sigma Delta, and the National Society for Minorities in Hospitality. </p> <h3><span id="Department_of_Management">Department of Management</span></h3> <p>The Department of Management offers undergraduates a management major with options in entrepreneurship, innovation, and technology management and human resource management. Minors are available in business leadership and business.</p> <h3><span id="Department_of_Marketing">Department of Marketing</span></h3> <p>Undergraduate students can earn a bachelors degree through the Department of Marketing. They can also participate in any of the department’s three clubs: Prism, PSE, and the Marketing Club. The department also has a master’s program, an MBA program, and a Ph.D. program.</p> <h2><span id="Distinguished_Faculty">Distinguished Faculty</span></h2><br><br> <p>Kent Nakamoto, R.B. Pamplin Professor of Marketing and Department Head and Associate Dean for Research, is a two time winner of the American Marketing Association’s William F. O’Dell award, which recognizes the Journal of Marketing Research article that has made the most significant, long-term contribution to marketing theory, methodology, and/or practice.</p> <p>Richard Wokutch, the R. B. Pamplin Professor in Management, is a two time Fulbright fellowship winner, who has gained recognition for his research related to business ethics.</p> <p>Vijay Singal, the J. Gray Ferguson Professor of Finance, has had his research featured on television (CNNfn), on radio (National Public Radio, Bloomberg Radio), and in print media such as the <i>Wall Street Journal</i>, <i>Barron's</i>, <i>Washington Post</i>, <i>Chicago Tribune</i>, <i>New York Times</i>, <i>Investors Business Daily</i>, <i>SmartMoney</i>, <i>Fortune</i>, and <i>Money</i>.</p> <h2><span id="Rankings">Rankings</span></h2><br><img alt="Pamplin College Of Business - Virginia Tech (Pamplin) | Best Business School | US News - The Pamplin College of Business at Virginia Tech offers these departments and concentrations: finance, general management, international business, ..." src="http://otile3.mqcdn.com/tiles/1.0.0/map/13/2265/3181.png" style="width:100%;display:block;margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto" title="Pamplin College Of Business - Virginia Tech (Pamplin) | Best Business School | US News"><br> <p>According to the U.S. News and World Reports’ “America’s Best Colleges 2011,” the Pamplin College of Business is ranked No. 42 overall, along with 15 other schools, and No. 10 among those at public universities. The college’s overall ranking again keeps it among the top 10 percent of the 524 U.S. business schools with undergraduate programs accredited by AACSB International, the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business.</p> <h2><span id="Notable_Alumni">Notable Alumni</span></h2><br><br> <ul><li>Robert B. Pamplin (business administration 1933) was the president and chairman of the board of Georgia-Pacific and the founder of R.B. Pamplin Corporation in Portland, Ore. The Pamplin College of Business at Virginia Tech is named in his family’s honor.</li> </ul><ul><li>Thomas C. Richards (general business 1956) is a former General in the United States Air Force and the former chief of staff of the Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe.</li> </ul><ul><li>United States Air Force General Lance L. Smith (business administration 1969) served as the Commander, U.S. Joint Forces Command, Norfolk, Virginia, and NATO Supreme Allied Commander for Transformation from November 10, 2005 to November 9, 2007. A highly decorated combat veteran, the general retired from active duty on January 1, 2008.</li> </ul><ul><li>Dave Calhoun (accounting 1979) is the chief executive officer of The Nielsen Company.</li> </ul><ul><li>Wayne Robinson (finance 1980) is a retired American basketball player.</li> </ul><ul><li>Bridget Ryan Berman (business administration 1982) is the chief executive officer of Victoria's Secret, the independent director of Tanger Factory Outlet Centers Inc., and a director of J Crew Operating Corp. She has also held positions in companies such as, Giorgio Armani Corporation, Apple Computer, Inc., and Polo Ralph Lauren Corp.</li> </ul><ul><li>Doug Fritz (marketing 1982) was the president and general manager of Richmond International Raceway.</li> </ul><ul><li>Vahan Janjigian (MBA 1982; Ph.D. finance 1985) is the chief investment strategist at Forbes, vice president and executive director of the Forbes Investors Advisory Institute, and editor of the Forbes Growth Investor and Special Situation Survey investment newsletters.</li> </ul><ul><li>Robert B. Pamplin, Jr. is the chairman, president, and CEO of the R.B. Pamplin Corporation. The Pamplin College of Business at Virginia Tech and the Pamplin School of Business at the University of Portland are named in his honor.</li> </ul><ul><li>Lynne Doughtie (accounting 1985) is a member of KPMG's management committee and leads Advisory for KPMG in the Americas Region, a network of KPMG member firms which includes more than 7,000 Advisory partners and professionals.</li> </ul><ul><li>Gene Fife is currently Managing Principal of Vawter Capital, LLC and has been a director of Caterpillar Inc. since 2002. He was formerly a partner of Goldman Sachs, retiring in 1995, and he served as the interim CEO and President of Eclipsys Corporation (healthcare information services) from April to November 2005 and the non-executive Chairman from 2001 until 2010, when Eclipsys merged with Allscripts</li> </ul><h2><span id="References">References</span></h2><br><img alt="Pamplin College Of Business - International Programs | Pamplin | Virginia Tech - The Pamplin College of Business provides many international opportunities for its students. It offers a number of faculty-led study abroad programs and supports  ..." src="http://www.international.pamplin.vt.edu/images/tnANGKORWAT.jpg" style="width:100%;display:block;margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto" title="Pamplin College Of Business - International Programs | Pamplin | Virginia Tech"><br> <h2><span id="External_links">External links</span></h2><br><img alt="Pamplin College Of Business - Pamplin College of Business - The Ph.D. program in Business Administration with a major in Management in the Pamplin College of Business is dedicated to developing the next generation of ..." src="http://www.management.pamplin.vt.edu/academics/phd/images/students2.jpg" style="width:100%;display:block;margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto" title="Pamplin College Of Business - Pamplin College of Business"><br> <ul><li>Pamplin COB Website</li> <li>Marketing Department Website</li> <li>Pamplin Magazine Website</li> <li>Accounting and Information Systems Website</li> </ul><p>Virginia Tech</p></h2><br><img alt="Pamplin College Of Business - Robert T. 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Pamplin College Of Business

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Vocational-technical School

<p>A <b>vocational-technical school</b>, often called a <b>voc-tech school</b>, is a high school in the United States and Canada designed to bring vocational and technical training to its students. Proponents claim that students bound for college may be able to use such skills to realize a distinct educational advantage over other students in their major.</p> <p>Additionally, vocational-technical schools often provide training to adults from the surrounding communities. The training, offered for a cost, may range from a single course to an entire program of ten or more courses.</p> <p>Vocational-technical schools are licensed, registered, or accredited like any other high school.</p> <h2><span id="Types">Types</span></h2><br><img alt="Vocational-technical School - Montachusett Regional Vocational Technical School - Start Page ... - Provides curriculum and course descriptions, school profile and financial aid information." src="http://montytech.net/modules/groups/homepagefiles/cms/1542081/Image/slideshow/6.jpg" style="width:100%;display:block;margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto" title="Vocational-technical School - Montachusett Regional Vocational Technical School - Start Page ..."><br> <p>Though less common, some vocational-technical schools are <i>full-time</i>. Not only do they provide vocational and technical training, but they also provide traditional academics that students would typically receive during high school, all within one school district or building. Such schools often expose students to their academic classes during one half of the day, and to their vocational and technical classes during the other half.</p> <p>Most vocational-technical schools, however, are <i>part-time</i>. This means that they only provide vocational and technical training, while the academic portion of their education is obtained from their home school district. Students engaged in such schools often spend one half of the school year at their home school for academic classes and the other half of the school year at the vocational-technical school for training, alternatively they may go to their home school in the morning and their vocational-technical school after lunch.</p> <h2><span id="Vocational_and_technical_programs">Vocational and technical programs</span></h2><br><br> <p>Programs that are common to vocational-technical schools include:</p> <ul><li><i>Agricultural:</i> animal science, floriculture, food science, horticulture, landscaping</li> <li><i>Business:</i> accounting and finance, advertising, business administrative services, commerce, hospitality management, marketing, office management, retail management</li> <li><i>Computing:</i> computer networking, computer programming, computer repair, information technology, Computer Science</li> <li><i>Construction:</i> building maintenance, cabinet making, carpentry, electrical construction, HVAC, masonry, plumbing, woodworking, construction technology</li> <li><i>Creative:</i> commercial art, fashion design, graphic arts, mass media, new media arts</li> <li><i>Culinary:</i> culinary arts, food preparation, pastry arts</li> <li><i>Healthcare:</i> allied health professions, cosmetology, medical sciences, nursing</li> <li><i>Human services:</i> childcare, criminal justice, early childhood education, emergency services, fire protection</li> <li><i>Mechanical:</i> automotive collision repair, automotive technology, diesel technology, machining, welding</li> <li><i>Technical:</i> aviation, computer-aided design, electronics technology, engineering, logistics</li> </ul><h2><span id="References">References</span></h2><br><img alt="Vocational-technical School - Bethlehem Area Vocational-Technical School: Home - The Bethlehem Area Vocational-Technical School is a career & technical school ... School District combined forces to form one vocational-technical school for its ..." src="http://bethlehemavts.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/slide141.jpg" style="width:100%;display:block;margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto" title="Vocational-technical School - Bethlehem Area Vocational-Technical School: Home"><br></h2><br><img alt="Vocational-technical School - Bethlehem Area Vocational-Technical School - Wikipedia, the free ... - The Bethlehem Area Vocational-Technical School is a career & technical school located in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania in the Lehigh Valley region of ..." src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Bavtsbuild02.JPG/300px-Bavtsbuild02.JPG" style="width:100%;display:block;margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto" title="Vocational-technical School - Bethlehem Area Vocational-Technical School - Wikipedia, the free ..."><br>

Vocational-technical School

A vocational-technical school , often called a voc-tech school , is a high school in the United States and Canada designed to bring vocation...

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Scheller College Of Business

<p class="mobile-photo"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5pe5n2RaxzT7-uHSO_qG-tQacQerlXOfctXFxqlsXZ2u7NkrBcSaAtICvriDf_2YwZTz2Z279U8wo12dVJyUA_lER0O1aeGhcl4y4QjXoYxgeENgs-oxlbclZZoLIAI9O1UoluceN12Y/s1600/250px-Georgia_Tech_School_of_Management-702638.JPG"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_6132522678316767794" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5pe5n2RaxzT7-uHSO_qG-tQacQerlXOfctXFxqlsXZ2u7NkrBcSaAtICvriDf_2YwZTz2Z279U8wo12dVJyUA_lER0O1aeGhcl4y4QjXoYxgeENgs-oxlbclZZoLIAI9O1UoluceN12Y/s320/250px-Georgia_Tech_School_of_Management-702638.JPG" /></a></p><p>The <b>Scheller College of Business</b> at the Georgia Institute of Technology is more than 100 years old and is consistently ranked among the top business schools in the nation. Scheller College attracts undergraduate and graduate students with a wide range of professional interests. But the intersection of business and technology has always been at the heart of the school.</p> <p>Under the leadership of Dean Steve Salbu since 2006, the Scheller College aims to become the world's leading school for business and technology. "Technology is only becoming more important to society, the economy, and the world at large," according to Salbu. "We are in the sweet spot, doing what the world is only going to consider more and more valuable."</p> <p></p> <h2><span id="History">History</span></h2><br><img alt="Scheller College Of Business - Scheller College of Business - Learn how GA Tech's business school can help you excel in your career & why Scheller College of Business has what you need to gain that competitive ..." src="http://scheller.gatech.edu/img/og-thumb.gif" style="width:100%;display:block;margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto" title="Scheller College Of Business - Scheller College of Business"><br> <p>When Georgia Tech first began offering evening business classes a century ago, bookkeepers and other office workers looking for a step up were its target market. "Your competition is fierce â€" your backbone sapped â€" unless you train well," warned an early advertisement in the <i>Atlanta Constitution</i>. "You want to grow. Will indecision balk your efforts? Are you always going to put off the 'get ready' for a better place? You want promotion. Then get ready."</p> <p>After beginning to prepare these men (many of whom were already middle-aged and married) for career advancement through an initial "business science" course in 1912, Georgia Tech officially started its Evening School of Commerce the following year. By the time that newspaper ad was published in 1914, the school had moved from campus to occupy the seventh floor of the downtown Walton office building (no longer standing).</p> <p>Tech's School of Commerce rapidly proved popular, with its focus on such business areas as accounting, finance, commercial law, business organization, and management. By 1915, the <i>Atlanta Constitution</i> was reporting that the school was "supported by leading Atlantans, many of whom have donated scholarships." By 1917, it was the third largest department at Georgia Tech, which was founded in 1888 as Georgia School of Technology as part of efforts to modernize a "New South."</p> <p>Today, under the leadership of Dean Steve Salbu, the school is working hard to become the world's preeminent school for business and technology.</p> <p><b>Driving Force Behind School's Creation</b></p> <p>Georgia Tech engineering alumnus William M. Fambrough (ME 1903) played a key role in the formation of Georgia Tech's Evening School of Commerce, championing the idea to other graduates.</p> <p>Vice president and general manager of mechanical engineering firm J.B. McCrary Co., Fambrough pushed for Tech to offer a course in "business science," which he began co-teaching in 1912 along with his colleague and fellow Tech alumnus J.B. McCrary (ME 1891).</p> <p>Fambrough, then president of Tech's Alumni Association, promoted the idea of a full school heavily and helped raise the funds necessary to make it happen. He argued that "ignorant of Georgia's industrial and business possibilities, too many Tech graduates were going north to work for large corporations rather than staying home to develop the state and enrich themselves," according to <i>Engineering the New South: Georgia Tech, 1885-1985</i> by Robert C. McMath Jr.</p> <p>When the Evening School of Commerce officially opened for the 1913-1914 academic with a class of 44 students (who paid tuition of $50), Wayne S. Kell served as the first dean. But Fambrough stayed active as general counselor and an Advisory Board member.</p> <p><b>Opening Doors of Opportunity</b></p> <p>In 1917, another Dean, J.M. Watters, saw the Evening School of Commerce as a place that should open doors of opportunity to women. "The demands of the Army are taking thousands of young men away from business," he said at the time. "Capable young women are taking their places in many instances, and there is no good reason why the very efficient women in Atlanta offices should not qualify themselves for executive positions…</p> <p>"It may be that quite a number of Atlanta young men, content with the job they have because a better one requires preparation, may find themselves working under women managers before many years have passed," Watters added.</p> <p>By 1921, when the School of Commerce graduated its first woman, Annie Wise (who was already a college-educated school principal when she started), the school was seeing a "marked increase" in its female enrollment, reported the <i>Atlanta Constitution</i>.</p> <p>"In the school, one of the most popular of all the divisions for women is the advertising selling branch," said one <i>Atlanta Constitution</i> article. "Many young women of marked originality in writing and salesmanship ability have turned to this class to secure basic training in the alluring field of advertising."</p> <p><b>Rolling with Big Changes</b></p> <p>During those years, the only admittance women students gained to Tech was through the Evening School of Commerce. But their limited entry came to halt in 1934, when Georgia's new Board of Regents â€" created to consolidate higher education in the state â€" made the controversial decision to move the popular school to the University of Georgia as a cost-saving move during the Depression.</p> <p>The school then became known as the University System of Georgia Center Evening School (which in turn became Georgia State University in 1955). But business education never really stopped at Tech. In 1934, the Institute established the Industrial Management program to meet the need for managers who could thrive in industrial and technical settings such as plants and factories.</p> <p>For years, Tech's business degrees were called industrial management. What would transition into an MBA program by the early 21st century started as the master of science in industrial management in 1945, the first professional management degree authorized in the state.</p> <p><b>Evolving Student Body, Faculty</b></p> <p>Women weren't admitted again at Georgia Institute of Technology until 1952. When Joel Cowan (IM 1958) arrived two years later, he could count the total number of women students across campus on fewer than 10 fingers. "We had regular mixers with students at Agnes Scott College, and a good number of people from my day married women from there…," he remembers.</p> <p>"Tech's campus was much more compact in those days, so after freshman year, you were thrust out into the city, unless you had seniority in a fraternity house," says Cowan, who began a successful career as a real-estate developer soon after graduation, founding Peachtree City, Ga., in 1959. "Back then, everyone â€" even the industrial management majors â€" wore their slide rule and pocket protectors everywhere they went on campus."</p> <p>Cowan, who now teaches as an adjunct professor in the Scheller College, notes that in those years, far fewer students than today arrived at Tech knowing that they wanted to study business. They often first explored the engineering options that Tech was far better known for at the time. But that trend has reversed dramatically over the last decade.</p> <p>The school's journey to becoming the highly ranked College it is today gained steam in the 1960s, as it attracted more prestigious faculty who were focused on research, says Phil Adler, a retired professor of management and holder of the Hal and John Smith Chair.</p> <p>"The school evolved heavily during those years," remembers Adler, who joined the faculty in 1962. "By 1969, the school officially became the College of Industrial Management, and we created a PhD degree the following year."</p> <p><b>Graduating Top Leaders</b></p> <p>Adler, who retired in 2000, credits the loyalty and success of the College's alumni for much of the great progress the school has made through the years.</p> <p>He has kept in regular contact with many of his former students, inspiring so much devotion that a group of alumni raised a large sum of money to dedicate a fourth-floor faculty wing of the College's current building to him in 2005. "I'll match our school's graduates up against the alumni of any university in the world," Adler says.</p> <p>Just a handful of the business leaders Adler taught during his 38-year career at Tech include Thomas A. Fanning (IM 1979, MS IM 1980, chairman, president and CEO of Southern Company), Joseph W. Rogers Jr. (IM 1968, founder chairman of Waffle House), Jack Guynn (IM, 1964, retired president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta), Huber L. "Herky" Harris. Jr. (IM 1965, former CEO of INVESCO), and David Dorman (IM 1975, former CEO of AT&T and current chairman of Motorola).</p> <p>"That's just the tip of the iceberg of the great success of our students," says Adler.</p> <p><b>Expanding Opportunity</b></p> <p>In the 1970s, the College had moved from a floor of the Skiles Classroom Building to occupy larger digs, the Groseclose building, where it remained until 2003. By the mid-1980s, the College had dropped "industrial" from its degree names.</p> <p>"That word potentially limited which recruiters might look at our school," Adler remembers. "It implied a process like manufacturing, when we had graduates going into all types of fields."</p> <p>For nearly a decade starting in 1990, the business school was shifted under the umbrella of the Ivan Allen College of Management, Policy, and International Affairs (which included liberal arts). Alder believes that the university administration of the time thought it made sense to group management alongside the social sciences because of the shared focus on people. "However, eventually there was enough pressure from faculty and powerful alumni that we got out of it," he says.</p> <p>The business school returned to standalone status as Georgia Tech College of Management in 1998, and soon gained a new dean, Terry Blum, who would help position the business school for a period of remarkable growth. "Terry was the right person at the right time," says Larry Huang, IM 1973, a former chairman and current member of the College's Advisory Board.</p> <p><b>Moving to Center Stage</b></p> <p>One of Blum's most visible accomplishments during her seven-year dean as dean was the move of the College into its home in Technology Square, a development at the heart of Atlanta's Midtown business community. This bustling area also includes the Georgia Tech Hotel and Conference Center, other educational and economic-development centers, and popular restaurant and retail establishments.</p> <p>Construction began in September 2001, and by July 2003, the College had moved from the Groseclose building across the Interstate bridge linking main campus to Technology Square. By 2006, construction teams had considerably widened the bridge to enable landscapers to groom strips of park space on either space of the road and plant trees along tall walls to hide any view of the heavy traffic speeding below.</p> <p>This aesthetically enhancing project was important not only to Tech Square, but also to the entire Institute, as the Fifth Street bridge serves as a major gateway to campus from the Midtown neighborhood that has continually gained in prestige and importance.</p> <p>Integral to the Tech Square area are the Centergy office building and the award-winning MidCity Lofts, both developed around the same time. The high-rise condos that have sprung up all around are the visual evidence that Midtown is perhaps the hottest live-work community in Atlanta.</p> <p>Near the center of it all, the College's current 189,000-square-foot building has provided students with the opportunity to attend classes just around the corner from companies where they can find great internships, co-op jobs, and careers.</p> <p>Though perhaps hard to believe today, at outset of the Tech Square project, the area was considered rather blighted (thought it bordered the historic Biltmore building and was just a few blocks from the restored “fabulous” Fox Theatre). The area contained little more than dilapidated warehouse space before community leaders dug in their shovels for a groundbreaking new era.</p> <p>Within a year and a half, the College achieved its $45 million fundraising goal to cover the cost of its new home. Funded without state dollars, this state-of-the-art, building (LEED-certified for environmentally friendly design) is one of few Georgia Tech facilities to be fully funded privately.</p> <p><b>Passing the Baton</b></p> <p>With building funding completed, Blum announced in 2005 that she'd be stepping down in a year to pursue her research interests, including creation of Tech's interdisciplinary Institute for Leadership and Entrepreneurship.</p> <p>Steve Salbu, who'd been an associate dean at the McCombs School of Business at the University of Texas-Austin, succeeded Blum as dean in August 2006. "By every measure imaginable, Dean Salbu has been able to build upon my legacy, taking the College from exceptionally good to truly great status," says Blum, holder of the Tedd Munchak Chair.</p> <p>Before pursuing the deanship here, Salbu had fielded numerous headhunter calls about other dean positions over the years. "I talked to so many schools that made me think, 'This is a suicide mission,'" he jokes. But his closer inspection of Tech's business school revealed tremendous promise. "This was one of the exceptions where I thought this school could really be brought to the next level of prestige and excellence."</p> <p><b>Fulfilling a Bold Vision</b></p> <p>In his quest to position the College as the leading school for business and technology, Salbu immediately set about boosting the size of the faculty. When he started, the number of tenured/tenure-track professors was 53. Now the school has 80.</p> <p>"The cornerstone of a great business school is a great faculty," explains Salbu, holder of the Steven P. Zelnak Chair. "My highest priority as dean has been to accelerate the growth of our faculty. These world-class faculty members will drive the College's reputation; ensure the continuation of existing programs, and the development of innovative new ones."</p> <p>In order to recruit and retain the best talent to teach students, Salbu worked to secure and deploy 24 expendable term professorships (each lasting three or four years) as a creative "bridge to the future" as the College sought many more permanently endowed chairs and professorships.</p> <p>Despite the tough economic climate, the College's Development team was proving successful at its efforts to secure funding to attract the world's best professors and students when it scored big in fall 2009.</p> <p>That's when the College received an anonymous commitment of $25 million, $20 million of which was a dollar-for-dollar Challenge Grant designed to inspire charitable gifts and commitments from other donors to the College's endowment.</p> <p><b>Building a New Brand</b></p> <p>As the Challenge Grant drew close to fulfillment in summer 2012, the anonymous stepped into the light, pledging another $25 million in order to rename the school as the Ernest Scheller Jr. College of Business.</p> <p>Scheller, who earned his bachelor's degree from the College in 1952, said, "I owe so much to Georgia Tech and rigorous education I received, and I've always felt a tremendous amount of gratitude and a strong desire to give back to the Institute. I want Georgia Tech and the business school to be number one.</p> <p>"We already have the leadership to make that happen with Steve Salbu as dean and our superior faculty, student body, and alumni,” says Scheller, chairman emeritus of Silberline. “I hope that my gift will now be the catalyst for permanently lifting the business school into the ranks of the world's finest."</p> <p>With the name change from College of Management to College of Business, what had always been a business school finally became officially titled as such for the first time in its 100-year history. The change made sense given that the school offers business administration degrees (BBA, MBA).</p> <p>"We are one of the oldest business schools in the world,” Salbu says. “For 100 of its 127 years of existence, Georgia Tech has provided business education. The name, scope and organizational structure have changed many times during the years to meet the changing needs of students and the business community. None of the changes over the past century are as transformational as the Scheller gift."</p> <p><b>Future Leadership</b></p> <p>After seven years on the job, Dean Steve Salbu announced in early 2013 that he would not be seeking a third term after his current one expires on June 30, 2014.</p> <p>“Beginning July 1, 2014, I will resume my faculty role as the Cecil B. Day Chair in Business Ethics and Director of the new Cecil B. Day Program in Business Ethics, here at Georgia Tech,” he said. “It has been a joy to work with Institute leaders, fellow deans, alumni, faculty, staff and students who are so smart, ambitious, talented, driven and collegial,” he says. “I love Georgia Tech dearly and always will. I am passionate about teaching, and it will be a pleasure to return to the classroom, as well as to my research,” he says.</p> <p>A dean search is now underway, with a goal of filling the dean's position in summer 2014.</p> <p>“We have reached great heights in a very short time, and I am more excited than I can express about the future we will all share under the next leader of the College,” Salbu said. “The deanship of the Scheller College of Business is among the most desirable in the world, and the search for my successor next year will attract superb talent.”</p> <h2><span id="Facilities">Facilities</span></h2><br><img alt="Scheller College Of Business - Georgia Institute of Technology (Scheller) | Best Business School ... - The Scheller College of Business at Georgia Institute of Technology offers these departments and concentrations: accounting, consulting, entrepreneurship, ..." src="http://otile2.mqcdn.com/tiles/1.0.0/map/13/2175/3278.png" style="width:100%;display:block;margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto" title="Scheller College Of Business - Georgia Institute of Technology (Scheller) | Best Business School ..."><br> <p>Georgia Tech opened a $180 million building project in Atlanta called Technology Square in 2003. This multi-building complex, home to the College of Business, is a fusion of business, education, research, and retail space. The complex also houses The Global Learning Center, Advanced Technology Development Center, Economic Development Institute, Center for Quality Growth and Regional Development as well as the Georgia Tech Hotel and Conference Center. The facilities are located in the heart of Midtown Atlanta near a number of corporate headquarters and high-tech start-up businesses.</p> <p>The intent of Technology Square is to promote the formation of a high tech business cluster centered around a premier research university. Similar formations have taken place in cities such as Palo Alto and Boston, both nexuses of thriving high-tech corridors.</p> <h2><span id="Degrees_Offered">Degrees Offered</span></h2><br><img alt="Scheller College Of Business - Georgia Institute of Technology: Scheller College of Business - Full ... - ... of Technology - a comprehensive full time business school profile. A guide to Scheller College of Business admissions, tuition, students, academics & address." src="http://images.businessweek.com/bschools/images/bschools/profiles/2012/2099950/405x225.jpg" style="width:100%;display:block;margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto" title="Scheller College Of Business - Georgia Institute of Technology: Scheller College of Business - Full ..."><br> <p>The College of Business currently offers a BS in Business Administration with various concentrations available.</p> <p>The College also offers a PhD Program in Management and several MBA options: the Full-time MBA, Evening MBA, and two Executive MBA Program options (the MBA in Global Business or MBA in Management of Technology).</p> <p>Scheller College's Huang Executive Education Center offers Six Sigma certification and tailors leadership-oriented programs (often lasting two weeks) to meet the needs of a growing number of major companies, including Coca-Cola, Clorox, GE, NCR, and McCain Foods.</p> <h2><span id="Rankings_as_of_2013">Rankings as of 2013</span></h2><br><img alt="Scheller College Of Business - Master of Business Administration (MBA) Degree Programs ... - At the Georgia Tech Scheller College of Business, our MBA degree programs balance business knowledge with technical savvy, preparing you to transition to a ..." src="http://scheller.gatech.edu/img/og-thumb.gif" style="width:100%;display:block;margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto" title="Scheller College Of Business - Master of Business Administration (MBA) Degree Programs ..."><br> <p><b>MBA</b></p> <p>Bloomberg Businessweek: #23 U.S. Full-time MBA Programs (#8 among public universities)</p> <p>U.S. News & World Report: #27 U.S. Full-time MBA Programs (#10 among public universities)</p> <p>U.S. News & World Report: #24 Part-time MBA Programs</p> <p>U.S. News & World Report Specialty Categories: #13 (Supply Chain/Logistics), #14 (Production/Operations), #16 (Management Information Systems)</p> <p>Forbes: #35 U.S. Full-time MBA Programs (based solely on return on investment)</p> <p><b>UNDERGRADUATE</b></p> <p>Bloomberg Businessweek: #41 U.S. Undergraduate Business Programs</p> <p>U.S. News & World Report: #27 U.S. Undergraduate Business Programs</p> <p>U.S. News & World Report Specialty Categories: #7 (Quantitative Analysis) #12 (Production/Operations), #12 (Management Information Systems), #12 (Supply Chain/Logistics)</p> <p><br></p> <h2><span id="Notable_College_of_Business_Alumni">Notable College of Business Alumni</span></h2><br><img alt="Scheller College Of Business - Georgia Tech Scheller College of Business - Atlanta, GA - College ... - Georgia Tech Scheller College of Business, Atlanta, GA. 1097 likes · 162 talking about this · 972 were here. 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Scheller College of Business 800 West Peachtree, NW Atlanta, Georgia 30308 404.894.2600." src="http://scheller.gatech.edu/thumb/width/600/cropratio/1:1/pix/directory/desai_deven_profile.jpg" style="width:100%;display:block;margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto" title="Scheller College Of Business - Deven Desai | Georgia Tech"><br> <ul><li>List of United States business school rankings</li> <li>List of business schools in the United States</li> </ul><h2><span id="References">References</span></h2><br><img alt="Scheller College Of Business - Georgia Tech Scheller College of Business MBA Program - Atlanta ... - Georgia Tech Scheller College of Business MBA Program, Atlanta, GA. 1177 likes · 125 talking about this · 106 were here. 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Scheller College Of Business

The Scheller College of Business at the Georgia Institute of Technology is more than 100 years old and is consistently ranked among the to...

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Texas Tech University Independent School District

<p><b>Texas Tech University Independent School District</b> (TTUISD) is an accredited learning school from kindergarten through twelfth grade program in Texas offering high school diplomas. It is operated by Texas Tech University, which is located in Lubbock. TTUISD offers Individual Courses (Supplemental), Credit by Exams (CBEs), Homeschool Curriculum, and Bulk Testing Services as well as a full-time Texas Diploma Program that includes high school, middle school and elementary school.</p> <p></p> <h2><span id="History">History</span></h2><br><img alt="Texas Tech University Independent School District - TTU Independent School District :: TTUISD Home :: TTU - Mar 20, 2015 ... Texas Tech University Independent School District's (TTUISD) elementary, middle, and high school are accredited by the Texas Education ..." src="http://www.depts.ttu.edu/ttuisd/images/enroll_now_button.png" style="width:100%;display:block;margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto" title="Texas Tech University Independent School District - TTU Independent School District :: TTUISD Home :: TTU"><br> <p>Texas Tech University Independent School District (TTUISD) was established by legislative and state board action in 1993 as a "Special Purpose District" designed to educate students with special circumstances and whose educational needs were not adequately met by traditional schools. In 1998, the Commissioner of Education granted expansion of the program to include kindergarten through 8th grade. TTUISD now serves students in kindergarten through 12th grade.</p> <h2><span id="Enrollment">Enrollment</span></h2><br><br> <p>In 1994, the first graduating class from TTUISD consisted of only two. Now, TTUISD has a total enrollment of around 3,500 students between high school, middle school and elementary school students. When including the Supplemental program and Credit by Exams, TTUISD serves over 25,500 students in total. 310 students graduated in the 2013-2014 year.</p> <p>Students can enroll in courses through TTUISD’s full-time, diploma-seeking program, where students take all the state-required courses and assessments to graduate. Upon graduation, students will receive a Texas high school diploma.</p> <p>Another option is the supplemental program. Students can catch up or get ahead by taking individual courses or Credit by Exams while still enrolled in their current school district.</p> <h2><span id="Transfer_Credits">Transfer Credits</span></h2><br><img alt="Texas Tech University Independent School District - TTU Worldwide eLearning - Mar 13, 2015 ... Catalog of Extended Studies at Texas Tech University, containing courses for kindergarten, elementary, middle school, high school, college, ..." src="http://www.depts.ttu.edu/elearning/home-content/TTU-eLearning_Social_1280x485.jpg" style="width:100%;display:block;margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto" title="Texas Tech University Independent School District - TTU Worldwide eLearning"><br> <p>All credits earned through TTUISD are recognized by colleges and universities.</p> <h2><span id="Brazil_Partnership">Brazil Partnership</span></h2><br><img alt="Texas Tech University Independent School District - Texas Tech University Independent School District Online Bookstore ... - Your School's Official Bookstore. Every order financially benefits your school. Log In. Texas Tech University Independent School District · Order · Sell · Digital ..." src="http://bookstore.mbsdirect.net/static/advertImages/00006_NEW%20AccountPreferences_ad_bottom.jpg" style="width:100%;display:block;margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto" title="Texas Tech University Independent School District - Texas Tech University Independent School District Online Bookstore ..."><br> <p>In 2009, TTUISD established a partnership with High School Serviços Educacionais (HSE) to offer Brazilian students the opportunity to earn an accredited U.S. high school diploma simultaneously with the Portuguese-based Brazilian high school diploma. This program has expanded from its first school, Leonardo da Vinci (Vitória, ES) to 54 schools across the nation of Brazil. The TTUISD- HSE partner schools in Brazil employ native English speaking teachers who provide classroom assistance in addition to the online TTUISD teachers. Currently, the TTUISD-HSE Partnership serves over 2,300 Brazilian students and has provided 693 diplomas, thus opening a world of opportunities to these students.</p> <p>Schools that participate in this partnership include Leonardo da Vinci, Dante Alighieri, Magno, Pentágono, Edna Roriz, Pio XII, São Miguel, Notre Dame, Jean Piaget, Christus, Dinâmica, Portal de Limeira, Damas, Santa Cecília, Agostiniano São José, GayLussac, CLQ, Master, Upaon, Uirapuru, Albert Sabin, Martha Falcão, Villa Lobos, Harmonia, FourC, Bom Jesus Internacional, Cidade Viva, Bertoni, Dom Bosco Renascença, Dinamica Anglo-Americano, Dinamica Educação Dinâmica, Dinamica Caesp, Dinamica Monjolo, Alfa Cascavel, Maxi Londrina, Maxi Cuiabá, Singular Junior, Singular Monteiro Lobato, Singular SBC, Singular SCS, Cassiano Ricardo, Carlos Chagas, Bom Jesus Santo Antônio, Bom Jesus Centro, Bom Jesus Lourdes, Bom Jesus Aldeia, Bom Jesus Divina Providência, Fênix, Drummond, Emilio Ribas, Mackenzie, 7 de Setembro, Objetivo Porto Velho, High School Serviços Educacionais LTDA.</p> <h2><span id="Accreditation">Accreditation</span></h2><br><img alt="Texas Tech University Independent School District - Texas Tech University Independent School District - YouTube - No matter where " title="Texas Tech University Independent School District - Texas Tech University Independent School District - YouTube"><br> <p>TTUISD is accredited by the Texas Education Agency (TEA). Courses and credit by exams (CBEs) are aligned with the Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS).</p> <h2><span id="Notable_Students">Notable Students</span></h2><br><br> <p>TTUISD serves a variety of people including actors, singers, dancers, athletes, military families, families who travel often, non-traditional students, families living overseas, homeschool families, adults finishing high school, hospital/homebound students, students struggling in traditional school and anyone looking for an accredited school without attending a physical location.</p> <p>Notable students include: Actors Jesse Plemons, who plays Landry Clark on the television show <i>Friday Night Lights</i>, and Hunter Parrish are notable graduates of the school as is Olympic speed skater Jordan Malone. Leven Rambin (<i>All My Children</i>, <i>Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles</i>) was enrolled and scheduled to graduate in 2008. Disney actress Sarah LeMaire from the television show <i>Wannabes</i> was also a student at TTUISD.</p> <h2><span id="See_also">See also</span></h2><br><br> <ul><li>Texas Tech University</li> </ul><p><br style="clear:both;"></p> <h2><span id="References">References</span></h2><br><img alt="Texas Tech University Independent School District - Texas Tech University Independent School District - Google+ - Texas Tech University Independent School District - No matter where " title="Texas Tech University Independent School District - Texas Tech University Independent School District - Google+"><br> <h2><span id="External_links">External links</span></h2><br><img alt="Texas Tech University Independent School District - Kathy Schoenrock - YouTube - Feb 9, 2015 ... Kathy Schoenrock. Texas Tech University Independent School District. 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Texas Tech University Independent School District

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Master Of Science In Cyber Security

<p>A <b>Master of Science in Cyber Security</b> is a type of postgraduate academic master's degree awarded by universities in many countries. This degree is typically studied for in cyber security.</p> <p></p> <h2><span id="Curriculum_Structure">Curriculum Structure</span></h2><br><img alt="Master Of Science In Cyber Security - Master of Science in Cyber Security | Liberty University Online - To address this escalating need in our country, the Master of Science in Cyber Security will instruct students in advanced defense of computer and network ..." src="http://www.liberty.edu/media/9932/LUO-Masters-Cyber-Security.jpg" style="width:100%;display:block;margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto" title="Master Of Science In Cyber Security - Master of Science in Cyber Security | Liberty University Online"><br> <p>The Master of Science in Cyber Security is a one to three years Master Degree, depending on the program, some may even start with two-year preparation classes and covers various areas of computer science, Internet security, Computer security, and or Information Assurance. Programs are offered online, on-campus, or a hybrid style. Please note that some schools offer the option of a graduate certificate in Cyber Security (for those not looking to do a full program).</p> <p>Topics of study may include:</p> <ul><li>Advanced persistent threat</li> <li>Advertising network</li> <li>Bulletproof hosting</li> <li>Browser security</li> <li>Certificate authority</li> <li>Computer forensics</li> <li>Computer insecurity</li> <li>Computer security</li> <li>Computer security policy</li> <li>Cryptography</li> <li>Cyber-collection</li> <li>Cyber ShockWave</li> <li>Cyber spying</li> <li>Cyber security standards</li> <li>Cyberpsychology</li> <li>Cyberterrorism</li> <li>Cyberwarfare in Russia</li> <li>Denial-of-service attack</li> <li>Electronic warfare</li> <li>Fully undetectable</li> <li>Hacker (computer security)</li> <li>Industrial espionage</li> <li>Information assurance</li> <li>Information security</li> <li>Information warfare</li> <li>IT risk</li> <li>iWar</li> <li>License</li> <li>Malware</li> <li>Open-source bounty</li> <li>Password cracking</li> <li>Penetration test</li> <li>Phishing</li> <li>Privilege escalation</li> <li>Proactive Cyber Defence</li> <li>Remote administration software</li> <li>Sandbox (computer security)</li> <li>Signals intelligence</li> <li>Swatting</li> <li>User Error</li> <li>Vulnerability</li> <li>Watering Hole</li> <li>Zero-day attack</li> </ul><h2><span id="Institutions_with_Masters_in_Cyber_Security_Degree_Programs">Institutions with Masters in Cyber Security Degree Programs</span></h2><br><img alt="Master Of Science In Cyber Security - Master of Science in Cyber Security Engineering - STEM Office of ... - The Master of Science degree in Cyber Security Engineering (MS CSE) offers a comprehensive approach to the Secure Development Lifecycle. Curriculum ..." src="http://i.ytimg.com/vi/27QZfz6clPM/maxresdefault.jpg" style="width:100%;display:block;margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto" title="Master Of Science In Cyber Security - Master of Science in Cyber Security Engineering - STEM Office of ..."><br> <p>Here is a list of institutions that have a Masters of Science in Cyber Security Degree Program:</p> <ul><li>Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham</li> <li>American Public University System</li> <li>Bay Path University</li> <li>Bellevue University</li> <li>Ben-Gurion University of the Negev</li> <li>Bournemouth University</li> <li>California University of Pennsylvania</li> <li>Charles III University of Madrid</li> <li>City University London</li> <li>De Montfort University</li> <li>Drexel University</li> <li>Edinburgh Napier University</li> <li>Embryâ€"Riddle Aeronautical University</li> <li>Excelsior College</li> <li>Florida Institute of Technology</li> <li>Fordham University</li> <li>George Mason University</li> <li>George Washington University</li> <li>Johns Hopkins University</li> <li>Lancaster University</li> <li>Liberty University</li> <li>Marymount University</li> <li>Mercy College</li> <li>National University</li> <li>New Jersey Institute of Technology</li> <li>NYU EPOLY</li> <li>Penn State</li> <li>Polytechnic Institute of New York University</li> <li>Queen's University Belfast</li> <li>Roger Williams University</li> <li>Sacred Heart University</li> <li>Saint Leo University</li> <li>Sardar Patel University of Police, Security and Criminal Justice</li> <li>Stevens Institute of Technology</li> <li>Sullivan University</li> <li>Syracuse University</li> <li>Tallinn University of Technology</li> <li>Temple University</li> <li>The Centre for Secure Information Technologies (CSIT)</li> <li>University of Alabama in Huntsville</li> <li>University of Dallas</li> <li>University of Greenwich</li> <li>University of La Rioja</li> <li>University of Maryland, College Park</li> <li>University of Maryland University College</li> <li>University of South Australia</li> <li>University of South Florida</li> <li>University of Southampton</li> <li>University of Southern California</li> <li>University of Waikato</li> <li>University of Warwick</li> <li>University of Washington Tacoma</li> <li>University of Wolverhampton</li> <li>University of York</li> <li>Utica College</li> <li>Valparaiso University</li> <li>Villanova University</li> <li>Virginia College</li> <li>Washington University in St. Louis</li> <li>Webster University</li> <li>Wright State University</li> </ul><h2><span id="See_also">See also</span></h2><br><img alt="Master Of Science In Cyber Security - Master of Science in Cyber Security and Privacy - The objective of the MS in Cyber Security and Privacy program is to create a strong foundation and detailed technical knowledge in security, privacy, and ..." src="http://cs.njit.edu/cs/images/ms-csp.jpg" style="width:100%;display:block;margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto" title="Master Of Science In Cyber Security - Master of Science in Cyber Security and Privacy"><br> <ul><li>Cyber Security vs. Information Security</li> <li>15 Top Cybersecurity Professors</li> <li>2014 Best Schools Report for Cybersecurity</li> <li>FBI's cybersecurity certifications tier rankings</li> <li>List of master's degrees</li> <li>List of cyber attack threat trends</li> <li>CERT Coordination Center</li> <li>Committee on National Security Systems</li> <li>IT risk#Standards organizations and standards</li> <li>National Security Directive</li> <li>National Strategy to Secure Cyberspace</li> <li>National Cyber Security Division</li> <li>United States Department of Homeland Security</li> <li>US-CERT</li> </ul><h2><span id="References">References</span></h2><br><br> <ol class="references"><li id="cite_note-1"><span><b>^</b></span> <span>[1]</span></li> <li id="cite_note-2"><span><b>^</b></span> <span>[2]</span></li> <li id="cite_note-3"><span><b>^</b></span> <span>[3]</span></li> <li id="cite_note-4"><span><b>^</b></span> <span>[4]</span></li> <li id="cite_note-5"><span><b>^</b></span> <span>[5]</span></li> <li id="cite_note-6"><span><b>^</b></span> <span>[6]</span></li> <li id="cite_note-7"><span><b>^</b></span> <span>[7]</span></li> <li id="cite_note-8"><span><b>^</b></span> <span>[8]</span></li> <li id="cite_note-9"><span><b>^</b></span> <span>Cyber Security | City University London</span></li> <li id="cite_note-10"><span><b>^</b></span> <span>Cyber Security MSc/PG Dip/PG Cert - 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Master Of Science In Cyber Security

A Master of Science in Cyber Security is a type of postgraduate academic master's degree awarded by universities in many countries. Thi...

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