Supply Chain Program Ranked Among Best in North America
A recent survey of supply chain academics and practitioners published in Supply Chain Management Review has ranked the supply chain program at Penn State's Smeal College of Business among the top two such programs in North America.
Smeal Supply Chain Program Ranked Among Best in North America
UNIVERSITY PARK, PA (October 8, 2009) – A recent survey of supply chain academics and practitioners published in Supply Chain Management Review has ranked the supply chain program at Penn State's Smeal College of Business among the top two such programs in North America.
Stanley E. Fawcett, Staheli Professor of Business Management at Brigham Young University, surveyed 102 leading supply chain faculty and 200 supply chain practitioners. Respondents ranked up to the top 20 supply chain programs based on faculty, research contributions, curriculum, reputation, and other factors.
The academic respondents collectively ranked Smeal's supply chain program No. 1, and the practitioners ranked Smeal No. 2. Overall, Smeal ranked No. 2 among all North American supply chain programs.
The Supply Chain Management Review report is an extension of a study first conducted in 1995 and then again in 2005. Smeal was ranked No. 1 overall in both of the prior rankings.
In June, Smeal's Department of Supply Chain and Information Systems was identified by AMR Research as having the best supply chain program in the United States in terms of industry value, program depth, and program scope. Smeal's supply chain program is also consistently ranked among the best such programs by U.S. News and World Report.
For more on Smeal's supply chain offerings, visit www.smeal.psu.edu/scis and www.smeal.psu.edu/cscr/edop.
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.
