BEAUMONT, Texas — Lamar University’s MBA program has been named among the best business schools in the United States by The Princeton Review in their 2023 unranked list
This unranked list is based off of surveys from administrators and students.
Students were asked questions about everything from program expectations, to classmates, academics and faculty.
Faculty, on the other hand, were asked questions about program technology and career services.
Lamar's online MBA program has came a long way since launching in 2015 and Associate Dean of Business Soumava Bandyopadhyay says he hopes the program continues to evolve.
"Our curriculum is much more competitive now than it was four or five years ago and what we have also done is we have added a number of concentrations within the MBA, so right now we have about 12 different concentrations," Bandyopadhyay said.
Concentrations range from business analytics to management information systems.
Anna Papa is the owner of Tanglz Color Studio in Beaumont.
She graduated with her online MBA degree from Lamar University along with her husband May 2022.
"We could have gone anywhere and we actually did look at other programs, but due to the ranking that Lamar had and just the initiative that they had in their online program, it was just super easy, super convenient and the quality of education was super high," Papa said.
Papa says the online tool Blackboard made class communication easy.
"even though everything was done virtually and we never were in the classroom it felt like you were in a lot of settings," Papa said. "Just the level of communication you could have through the program, made you feel like it was more of a face to face opportunity for sure."
Papa credits the program for helping make her a better business leader.
One class in particular, was a strategic management class.
"So I was able to use some of the theories and the ideas that we learned in that class and I actually rewrote the business plan and the mission and vision statement for our business and updated it for 2023," Papa said.
Bandyopadhyay is incredibly honored to have received this recognition and be on a list with some of the top universities in the country.
"It has been really exciting news for us because many years ago we had made that list one time and we have made that list again after over a decade now," Bandyopadhyay said.