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School of Business gets sterling report card

Students aren't the only ones taking tests at IU Southeast.

At IU Southeast's School of Business, a round of testing was recently completed by Educational Testing Service (ETS), an independent entity that provides educational benchmarking data for participating universities.

According to Uric Dufrene, dean for the School of Business, the ETS scores are always much anticipated because they benchmark IU Southeast's business program against hundreds of universities across the nation. ETS gathers data from a number of sources including current students, alumni, faculty, and administrators.

So, what do the ETS results tell us about our School of Business?

For spring and fall semester 2005, the ETS surveys reveal that IU Southeast's School of Business placed in the 95th percentile or among the top 5% of the 469 institutions that were tested.

Furthermore, when compared against the six universities that are deemed to be our peers, IU Southeast ranked first in fourteen of the sixteen factors evaluated by ETS. Imagine a report card with sixteen subjects. Now imagine that IU Southeast placed first in the class in fourteen of those subject areas.

IU Southeast's School of Business has participated in the ETS benchmarking surveys since 2000. Except for a single semester, the School has always placed in the top 10% or higher. The School of Business has 230 students.

Dufrene cautions that the positive results from ETS do not mean that IU Southeast has arrived at some final destination of academic excellence.

"We've simply passed a milestone on a road that never ends," said Dufrene. "Standards continually change, and that means the bar will likely be raised even higher."

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