For the second consecutive year, Cornell's Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management has been ranked No. 5 in Bloomberg Businessweek's 2011 list of best undergraduate business schools.

The Dyson School also came in No. 3 in student satisfaction out of the 113 programs ranked, with seniors continuing to give A+ grades to teaching quality, facilities and services, and job placement.

Joining Cornell in Businessweek's top five are the business schools at the University of Notre Dame, University of Virginia, Emory University and the University of Pennsylvania.

The annual Businessweek rankings of undergraduate business programs uses nine measures, including surveys of senior business majors and corporate recruiters, median starting salaries, the number of alumni each program sends to top MBA programs, average SAT scores, student-faculty ratios, class size, the percentage of students with internships, and the number of hours students devote to class work.

The Dyson School, a unit in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, has 750 undergraduate majors, one of the smallest four-year accredited undergraduate business degree programs in the country. Its curriculum features specializations in accounting, finance, marketing, entrepreneurship, strategy, agribusiness management, food industry management, applied economics, environmental and resource economics and international trade and development.

Janelle Tauer is communications director for the Dyson School.