MBA Students Score in Top 10 Percent
June 10, 2011 – For the second year in a row, students enrolled in the Master of Business Administration program at Penn State Erie, The Behrend College, scored in the top 10 percent on the most recent ETS Major Field Test, a comprehensive national assessment for program evaluation.
Penn State Behrend's top MBA students include (seated, L-R) John Dambaugh, Andrea Lorman, Jennifer Powell, Jeffrey Stephen, (standing, L-R) Bryan Craig, Robert Orndorf, Christopher Flower, Lisa Strobel, Gregory Stolar, Nicholas Allburn, and Justin Kovac.
"These results once again speak to the quality of our students, faculty and curriculum," said Dr. Al Warner, director of the MBA program. "This is the third time in four years that Penn State Behrend students have earned this recognition."
MBA students in the Sam and Irene Black School of Business earned a mean test score that placed the college's MBA program in the 90th percentile of 130 institutions nationwide.
In total, 13 of the college's 50 MBA students who took the Major Field Test scored at or above the 90th percentile of the 4,787 students who took the exam. Penn State Behrend students' scored an average of 262; total scores for the MBA test are reported on a scale of 220 to 300.
Administered by Educational Testing Service—the same company that creates the SAT, GRE and AP exams—Major Field Tests measure students' mastery of particular areas of study. The MBA Major Field Test consists of 124 multiple-choice questions, half of which are based on short case-study scenarios. Most of the questions require knowledge of specific information drawn from marketing, management, finance and managerial accounting, or a combination of these.
The Black School of Business was listed by U.S. News and World Report in its Best Grad Schools 2012 and was named among "The Best 300 Business Schools," as ranked by the Princeton Review.
