-- by Jose Melendrez, Poder360.com:

Getting a business degree is a big decision and a big commitment. Succeed, and you may have a long and prosperous career; fail, and you might spend most of your adult life paying off the debt. Since schools each have their own methods of picking and choosing whom to accept from among their candidate pool, we think you also need to have your own system to gauge what school is right for you.

Most efforts to list the top business management programs for Hispanics tend to review the essentials: cost, rate of acceptance, rate of employment at graduation, and average salary at some interval after graduation. But inevitably they also fall into the trap of placing too much emphasis on issues such as the percentage of Hispanics enrolled in the school, the number of Hispanic associations created, and even the number of Hispanic faculty employed.

That’s why the graduate business school at the University of Texas San Antonio took the top spot on one such recent list, and two other Texas state universities made the top five. Meanwhile, Stanford University’s business school came in fifth, Columbia University came in eleventh, and Harvard didn’t even break the top 20.

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