Financial Times Ranks Smeal Among Top Custom Executive Education Providers
The Financial Times has ranked Penn State Executive Programs fifth among public university providers of custom executive education programs and 17th among U.S. providers.
Financial Times Ranks Smeal Among Top Custom Executive Education Providers
UNIVERSITY PARK, PA (May 22, 2008) – The Financial Times has ranked Penn State Executive Programs fifth among public university providers of custom executive education programs and 17th among all U.S. providers.
Penn State Executive Programs, the executive education division within the Smeal College of Business, is ranked 30th among all worldwide custom providers, up from 35th in 2007.
The rankings, which appeared in the newspaper on May 12, include 16 criteria and are based on information provided by executive education purchasers and providers.
In addition to being ranked fifth overall among U.S. public providers of custom programs, Smeal ranks in the top five among publics in the individual categories of value, future use, international participants, and international clients.
Smeal also ranked 13th in the world for value for the money spent. Among all custom program providers globally, Penn State Executive Programs ranks in the top 25 for program design, faculty quality, and the relevance of new skills learned and the extent to which the courses encouraged new thinking.
The complete Financial Times custom executive education rankings are available online.
About Penn State Executive Programs
Penn State Executive Programs, the executive education division of Penn State's Smeal College of Business, has been serving the development needs of the world's business leaders since 1954, providing both open-enrollment and custom programs. Nearly 36,000 executives from 43 different nations have participated in programs on topics ranging from strategic leadership to supply chain management.
Penn State Executive Programs was recently ranked as the No. 1 provider in the world of customized executive education programs by the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU), the research arm of The Economist magazine publisher. The EIU also awarded Penn State Executive Programs its Award of Excellence for open-enrollment programs, making Smeal the only U.S. provider to be rated excellent in both categories.
More on all the offerings of Penn State Executive Programs can be found on its Web site.
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.
