TRENTON, N.J. (Legal Newsline) – A class action lawsuit alleges Rutgers Business School has lied to students about its reputation.
Lorenzo Budet’s lawsuit filed April 12 in New Jersey federal court seeks to represent students in the school’s Master of Business Administration program and other master's degree programs. It alleges a violation of the New Jersey Consumer Fraud Act, breach of contract and unjust enrichment.
Budet says the school inflated its education rankings by submitting false employability statistics to places like U.S. News & World Report and Financial Times that rank colleges and universities.
“The fraud worked,” the suit says. “In 2018, the very first year of the school, Rutgers was suddenly propelled to, among other things, the ‘No. 1’ business school in the Northeast region of the United States.”
“But for (Rutgers’) high rankings… Plaintiff would have selected a different program. If Defendant Rutgers Business School had not received these high rankings, Plaintiff would have not agreed to pay Defendants’ premium per credit rate of tuition.”
Lawyers at McOmber McOmber & Luber in Marlton are pursuing the case.