BYU Marriott School welcomes new faculty members
Brigitte Madrian, dean of the BYU Marriott School of Business, announced the hiring of several faculty members this week.
Ryan Allen, Brittley Eldredge, Marylis Fantoni, Brandon Malone, Scott Whitaker and Zach Wright joined the Marriott School faculty with far-ranging expertise and experience. Madrian praised them for their student focus and commitment to helping develop faithful leaders who will “transform the world.”
Top 10 stories of 2025
BYU’s top 10 news stories of 2025 highlight important research on sugar, generative AI, approaches to wildfires and how origami relates to engineering.
Readers were interested in campus construction projects like the new Creamery on Ninth and the location announcement of the future BYU School of Medicine. BYU’s 150th year brought major advancements and recognition of excellence.
BYU ranks ahead of Princeton and Yale
BYU maintains its top-five ranking in college admission yield rates, meaning the university is students’ first choice when applying for college.
BYU ranks above Princeton and Yale, and just below the University of Chicago, MIT, Harvard and Stanford. This ranking is impressive because BYU’s enrollment is significantly larger than that of any other school in the top ten.