WINONA, Minn. – Saint Mary’s University’s master’s business program was named the best of its type in the state by the ranking company U.S. News and World Report. The 25-year-old master’s program has courses online and in Apple Valley, Minnetonka, Oakdale and Rochester. Michelle Wieser, dean, said the program’s fixability, options, accelerated pathways, and relevancy set it apart. The leading program of its type nationally was the Tepper School at Carnegie Mellon in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Saint Mary’s was 170th nationally. These were the Minnesota rankings:
> Saint Mary’s, 170th.
> Concordia, 187th.
> St. Scholastica, unranked but lower than 224th.
> Minnesota State-Moorhead, unranked but lower than 224th.