News Site Poets&Quants Ranks SHU Business College One of the Best

Data from recent graduates and other factors bring recognition

Sacred Heart University’s Jack Welch College of Business & Technology (WCBT) recently jumped nine places in the national rankings of best undergraduate business schools on Poets&Quants for Undergrads, a news website that covers business education.

The WCBT’s curriculum emphasizes core business skills and knowledge, communication skills and ethics. It incorporates hands-on learning, understanding of the global marketplace and state-of-the-art technology. Undergraduate programs encompass accounting, business economics, fashion marketing and merchandising, finance, hospitality, resort and tourism management, management, marketing and sport management. The WCBT’s School of Computer Science & Engineering offers degrees in computer engineering, computer game design and development, cybersecurity and information technology.

“We are honored that Poets&Quants has recognized our recent progress,” said Martha J. Crawford, WCBT dean. “Our faculty works hard to ensure students have the best, most beneficial experiences possible. We encourage and enforce internships and prepare students for that with the necessary classes and coursework. The college has seen much recent growth and we recently moved to West Campus, the former GE global headquarters. Here we offer students an incubator space to develop businesses, an innovation hub, an AI lab, a finance lab and much more. We are pleased that our improvements are recognized, and are committed to further advancing.”  

Faculty members at WCBT—which holds accreditation from the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business—are recognized scholars and experienced practitioners in the business world. Students attend courses in Fairfield and at SHU’s overseas campus in Luxembourg. Several classes are available through state-of-the-art video broadcasting, which allows European and American students to learn from and with one another simultaneously.

Some of the many companies that have offered internships and jobs to SHU students include PricewaterhouseCoopers, IBM, Unilever, Credit Suisse First Boston, NASDAQ, Madison Square Garden, Tetley USA, Octagon Sport Marketing and Ernst & Young.

Poets&Quants based its 2020 ranking on a representative survey of 5,958 recent graduates and on school-reported data. Other considerations include admissions standards, academic experience and employment outcomes.