2 in Va. are best part-time business schools

BusinessWeek has come out with its 2009 rankings for executive, part-time and non-degree business school programs.

The University of Richmond’s Robins School of Business was ranked No.17 among part-time MBA programs, the only Virginia school to make that list. The top three were Worcester Poly Tech, UCLA and UC-Berkeley.

No Virginia schools made the list for top executive MBA programs. The top three schools for that category were Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management, the University of Chicago’s Booth School of Business and the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School.

UVA’s Darden School of Business was ranked 16th for top non-degree executive education programs. It was No. 10 last year.

BusinessWeek ranks the schools based on surveys of the programs’ main constituents: graduates, program directors, part-time MBA students and companies that enroll employees in executive-education courses. You can read more about the methodology here.

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Aaron Kremer is the BizSense editor. Please send news tips to Editor@richmondbizsense.com.