Hiring of New Faculty Members Highlights Growth at New Jersey's Premier Business School

22 new faculty members join Rutgers Business School in 2009

NEWARK, N.J., Nov. 17 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- In the highly competitive world of faculty recruitment, Rutgers Business School - Newark and New Brunswick (RBS) is proud to announce the addition of 22 new faculty members with impressive track records to the RBS faculty. A few of these new faculty members are Rutgers alumni and the rest graduated from other premier schools around the country.

With wide-ranging research backgrounds and strong industry experience, these new faculty members support the RBS unique multidisciplinary approach to business education: delivering the business, science and technology credentials to drive local, national, and global markets. By expanding the scope of business education to include other disciplines, students receive an unrivaled, well-rounded business education that breaks the mold.

The faculty list is not the only thing growing at RBS. Student enrollment has increased and in fall 2009, the entire school moved into a new, state-of-the-art headquarters at 1 Washington Park in Newark. The new building has substantially improved the quality of the school's facilities and classroom technology, while expanding its capacity to meet the rapidly increasing demand for business education and the needs of growing undergraduate and graduate student bodies.

New Rutgers Business School Faculty Come from Major Universities

Boston University (2)

Columbia University

Cornell University

National University of Singapore

NJIT

Pace University

Purdue University

Rutgers University (3)

S. Illinois University, Carbondale

The Ohio State University (2)

Tulane University

University of California, Berkeley

University of Chicago (2)

University of Florida

University of Massachusetts

Yale University (2)

See RBS Highlight for profiles of new faculty members: http://www.business.rutgers.edu//files/rbs_highlightnewfaculty_issue_6_oct_09_web.pdf

For more information visit Rutgers Business School: www.business.rutgers.edu

About Rutgers Business School

Rutgers Business School-Newark and New Brunswick is an integral part of one of the nation's oldest, largest, and most distinguished institutions of higher learning: Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, founded in 1766. Rutgers Business School has been accredited since 1941 by AACSB International -- the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business -- a distinction that represents the hallmark of excellence in management education. Today, Rutgers Business School is educating more than 4,500 undergraduate and graduate students at two main campuses in New Jersey as well as six satellite locations in New Jersey, China, and Singapore. Rutgers Business School is ranked #10 nationwide for "Most Competitive Students" by The Princeton Review; and is part of the campus that is ranked #1 in diversity nationwide by U.S. News & World Report for 12 straight years. Full-time MBA and part-time MBA programs give excellent options for people looking to boost their careers.

SOURCE Rutgers Business School

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