Graduate Business program ranked No. 20

Providing more positive feedback for the Kelley School of Business, Business Week released its annual rankings Thursday, placing IU's graduate program No. 20 in the country.\nDan Dalton, dean of the business school, said the rankings make IU only one of 10 schools in the country to have both its undergraduate and graduate business programs place in the top 20.\n"We are proud to be in that company," Dalton said. "You have to allocate dollars and energy and people to two programs … The trick is to maintain both programs at a very high level … There are 800 schools in the U.S. with both undergraduate and graduate business programs and only 10 that are in the top 20 in both of their programs."\nDalton said to have a good business school, a university must have faculty comfortable with teaching both the undergraduate and graduate curriculum and it must be able to attract good students.\n"At the end of the day, no school is better than its students," Dalton said. "The Kelley School of Business in any given year has 600 companies that come on campus. We have a tradition of extraordinary faculty and a gifted student body."\nDalton said the rankings are important to the school and its alumni.\n"It's great to be in the top 20 in both, and the reason is we don't have a constituency that isn't interested in our ratings."\nHe said the rankings help to attract and maintain students, faculty and corporations who come to IU to recruit students.\n"We're among very good company," Dalton said. "We attract students from all over the world and we place students all over the world. We are blessed with an international reputation"