The Menlo ROI

Best in the West

Money Magazine Spotlights Menlo’s Return on Investment

Even during the pandemic, Menlo College continued to accrue recognition, within the United States and internationally. Among the more notable indications of Menlo’s growing stature, earlier this year Money Magazine identified the top 50 undergraduate business programs among thousands, and called out Menlo College as the 11th best undergraduate business program in the United States. This recognition is no accident: across-the-board program enhancements, enhanced stature of our faculty, recognition of our innovative internship program, and our students’ impressive record of post-graduate success were all factors that influenced the Money Magazine ranking. The magazine’s recognition of the success of Menlo graduates was echoed in two other research reports this year: The Center for World University Rankings ranked Menlo alumni 44th in the world among top executive positions at the world’s largest companies (a top 1% ranking among the nearly 20,000 colleges included in the study); and GradReports cited Menlo’s accounting program as the 13th best in the U.S. It’s outcomes such as these that led The Princeton Review to cite Menlo College as a “Best in the West” for the 11th year in a row. We keep repeating the phrase “Go Oaks” and clearly the world is listening.

Scholar-Athlete Wins Scholarship in Finance

Wendy Mouat ’22, recipient of the 2021 Financial Executives International Silicon Valley (FEISV) scholarship, has been on the Menlo College dean’s list since her arrival to campus from Lafayette, California. Before Covid-19 stopped in-person athletic events, she played infield and second base for the softball team. Contributing defense as well offense, she hit at a .328 clip during the last playing season. In other words, Wendy Mouat has a wide range of pursuits, and does them all well. With this $3,000 scholarship, she will be asked to join the FEI Rising Stars Executive Board, a subset of the FEI Board of Directors, and will contribute her voice as a scholar-athlete in promoting the discipline of finance to other students on campus. Other students recognized in 2021 for outstanding contributions in finance are Bastien Grunenwald ’22, Michaela Haynes ’22, and Bryan Zaremba ’22. They will also serve on the FEI Rising Stars Executive Board, joining their peers from UC Berkeley, Santa Clara University, San Jose State University, and Cal State East Bay. The FEI scholarship program is supported by former Menlo Trustee and alumnus Harry Kellogg ’63, whom President Steven Weiner credited with leaving a “lasting and much appreciated legacy at Menlo College that extends well beyond the FEI scholarship program.”