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Contact: Polly Chandler at 603.283.2424 or Jan Fiderio at 603.283.2107

October 22, 2008 for Immediate Release

AUNE's Green MBA Makes Top Five in Multiple Categories in MBA Student Guide

Antioch University New England students give program high grades

Keene, NH -According to a new publication by Net Impact, a nonprofit organization of over 10,000 MBAs, graduate students, and executives, Antioch University New England's Green MBA makes the grade. Net Impact's just-published Business as Unusual: The 2008 Student Guide to Graduate Business Programs, lists Antioch University New England's Green MBA program in the top five in seven of thirteen categories.

Antioch University New England's Green MBA ranked first out of sixty-three MBA programs in two categories: faculty support of Net Impact themes in the curriculum and faculty support of Net Impact themes in extra curricula events and activities. AUNE's Green MBA came in second for preparing Net Impact students for ethical and socially responsible leadership, third for student support of Net Impact themes in the curriculum, and fourth for both administrative support of Net Impact themes and for preparing all students for ethical and socially responsible leadership. AUNE's student rankings regularly topped more well-known MBA programs like those of Yale, Babson, Tufts, and Cornell.

In addition, 92% of AUNE's Net Impact respondents thought AUNE students are enthusiastic regarding social/environmental themes in their curriculum and 100% of respondents think AUNE faculty are enthusiastic regarding social/environmental themes in their curriculum.

When asked to describe the type of student best suited to Antioch University New England's Green MBA program, AUNE's Net Impact chapter leader and student members described that student as someone interested in attending a school where students and faculty are on the forefront of social/environmental issues.

About the Net Impact guide
The Business as Unusual: The 2008 Student Guide to Graduate Business Programs used a qualitative survey of Net Impact chapter leaders from sixty-three MBA programs to compile the data as well as the results from an online survey completed by another 1,552 student Net Impact members. Graduate students rated their individual MBA programs on five main categories including reasons to attend, administrative support, career services and alumni support, student activities, and curriculum. These categories were broken down into fourteen subcategories. The data, claims the books authors, presents a way to compare student opinions of their schools.

About Antioch University's Net Impact Chapter
Antioch University New England's Department of Organization & Management and its Green MBA program launched the chapter of Net Impact in November of 2007. Net Impact is an international nonprofit organization whose mission is to make a positive impact on society by growing and strengthening a community of new business leaders. The organization offers its 10,000 plus members programs that educate, equip, and inspire them to make a tangible difference in their universities, organizations, and communities.

Net Impact membership spans six continents making it an influential network of MBAs, graduate students, and professionals. Net Impact members are current and emerging leaders in CSR (Conservation Strategy Review), social entrepreneurship, nonprofit management, international development, and environmental sustainability who are actively improving the world.

Net Impact offers programming in career support, community impact, curriculum change, impact at work and offers member support through a learning center. For more information on AUNE's Net Impact Chapter, visit the Net Impact web pages of the pages of the Organization & Management department. Membership in the Antioch University New England Net Impact chapter is open to all Organization & Management students.

About Antioch University New England's Green MBA
This Antioch University New England program is one of only a few interdisciplinary Green MBAs in the world. Students learn what you would expect in an MBA program, plus the unexpected - a curriculum that considers not only sustainable business practices, but also the natural environment, leadership, systems thinking, and collaboration. The 45-credit MBA in Organizational and Environmental Sustainability (AUNE's Green MBA) is a six-semester program with completion expected in two years. Classes meet approximately one intensive weekend each month, and for one weeklong intensive each summer. An online forum supplements learning between classes.

About Antioch University New England (AUNE)
This is Antioch University New England's forty-sixth year as an institution of higher education. Located in Keene, New Hampshire, AUNE offers rigorous, practice-oriented, values-based master's, doctoral, and certificate programs to more than one thousand students. Degrees in education, leadership and management, environmental studies, and psychology reflect a dedication to activism, social justice, community service, and sustainability. Antioch University New England is the oldest and largest of Antioch University’s graduate campuses. For more information about Antioch University New England visit our web site at: www.antiochne.edu.

About Antioch University
Antioch University, a visionary academic community composed of five campuses in four states, is uniquely capable of bringing its students' brightest ideals and highest ambitions to life. Each campus has its own distinct academic programs, community life, and regional or national identity. Antioch University is founded on principles of rigorous liberal arts education, innovative experiential learning and socially engaged citizenship. The multiple campuses of the University nurture in their students the knowledge, skills and habits of reflection to excel as lifelong learners, democratic leaders, and global citizens who live lives of meaning and purpose. For more information visit: www.antioch.edu.

For more information please contact Polly Chandler at 603.283.2424 or Jan Fiderio at 603.283.2107.

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