For colleges and universities the World Wide Web enables an institution to reach many stakeholders. The purpose of this study is to examine the Web sites of thirty-seven selected schools of business in the Southeast. The Web sites of the schools were compared with one another and then were compared with highly ranked business school Web sites. Finally, the Web sites were compared with the Web sites of academically top ranked business schools as defined by recent surveys from US News and World Report.
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