Rice / Jones MBA News

Last week we got to know Sue Oldham, executive director of recruiting and admissions at Rice University’s Jones School of Business (Rice Business), while she was wearing her admissions director hat. This week, we’re sharing a bit more of her personal side as part of our continuing Real Humans of MBA Admissions series. Among other things, she’s a trained classical pianist and dog lover—but that’s not all. Read on to learn more, including how to stay in her good graces if you’re ever a guest in her home. Our thanks to Oldham for taking part! Real Humans Read more

“What a breath of fresh air,” Sue Oldham wrote in an email after we spoke recently. “It’s evident that you love your job.” Indeed, I do love the parts of my job that involve great conversations like the one Oldham and I shared. Read on, and it’ll be just like you were there listening in. Oldham went to Rice for undergrad, where she majored in English, before spending a couple of years working in marketing. Business school beckoned the St. Louis, Missouri native and off she went to Vanderbilt’s Owen Graduate School of Management to get her MBA. A jet-setting IT consulting career followed, one that involved stints in Los Angeles, Charlotte, Dallas, Richmond and Houston and exposed her to industries ranging from healthcare to CPG to transportation to insurance. After 10 years of that, she went in-house at Enron and expanded her breadth of knowledge to the energy industry. Read more

The Rice University – Jones Graduate School of Business MBA program has ranked No. 25 of the best full-time MBA programs in the nation by U.S. News and World Report. Over the last decade, Rice has seen a tremendous rise in ranking, increasing from below the top 40 to top 25 in all three top business school rankings: Bloomberg Businessweek (unranked in 2006 to No. 19 at present), U.S. News (No. 44 in 2006 to No. 25 at present) and Financial Times (No. 41 in 2016 to No. 24 at present). Rice is the only university to experience Read more

Bill Glick, dean of the Rice University – Jones Graduate School of Business, was recently featured in an article from US News which examined the important factors to consider when choosing an MBA program. US News recently released their 2017 ranking of the Best Business Schools, and with it, important insight into what sort of factors US News deems the most important for prospective students to consider. Bill Glick, who serves as chair for the board of directors of the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB) Read more