Booyah! CNBC's 'Mad Money' Comes To Penn State's Smeal College of Business

UNIVERSITY PARK, PA (March 5, 2008) – "Mad Money w/ Jim Cramer," CNBC's hit investing show, is coming to Penn State's Smeal College of Business on March 26 as part of its 2008 "Back to School Tour."

The show will tape at the Milton S. Eisenhower Auditorium on Penn State's University Park campus and air on CNBC at 6 p.m. and 11 p.m. ET on March 26.

Penn State students will make up the bulk of the show's live audience, but a limited number of tickets will be available to the public. To request tickets, visit  madmoney.cnbc.com.

Prior to the taping, Cramer will hold a book signing from 11 a.m. to 12 p.m. on March 26 in the Atrium of Smeal's Business Building. Copies of several of Cramer's books will be available. The book signing is open to the public. For more informaiton, click here.

"We are thrilled to welcome Jim Cramer and Mad Money to Penn State's Smeal College of Business," says Dean James B. Thomas. "Cramer brings an unrivaled energy and exuberance to the world of finance. He's been incredibly successful at getting young people, in particular, excited about business and the stock market. That's a goal we share at Smeal, so we aim to bring Cramer his largest, most spirited audience yet for a campus show."

"Mad Money w/ Jim Cramer" airs Monday through Friday on CNBC at 6 p.m. and 11 p.m. ET.

Jim Cramer is excited to make Penn State the first stop on Mad Money's "Back to School Tour" in 2008. CNBC is thrilled to give college students the chance to experience the energy and passion of its popular host by being a part of the audience for an educational and entertaining afternoon.

Penn State's Smeal College of Business is the 11th stop on the tour, which most recently visited the Kelley School of Business at Indiana University, the Marshall School of Business at the University of Southern California, and Georgia Tech's College of Management.

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REPORTERS & EDITORS: For more information, please contact Wyatt DuBois in the Smeal College of Business Media Relations Office at 814-863-3798 or wed112@psu.edu.

Penn State's Smeal College of Business offers highly ranked undergraduate, MBA, executive MBA, Ph.D., and executive education opportunities to more than 5,500 students at all levels. Featuring academic departments of accounting, finance, marketing, insurance and real estate, management, and supply chain and information systems, the college is also home to major research centers such as the Center for Supply Chain Research, the Institute for the Study of Business Markets, the Center for Digital Transformation, the Farrell Center for Corporate Innovation and Entrepreneurship, the Center for Global Business Studies, and the Center for the Management of Technological and Organizational Change.

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