Survey Ranks Smeal Number One In Supply Chain Education
Survey Ranks Smeal Number One In Supply Chain Education
UNIVERSITY PARK, PA (September 16, 2005)—A recent survey of supply chain practitioners and academics in Canada, Mexico and the United States ranks Penn State's Smeal College of Business as having the top supply chain program in North America.
Stephen M. Rutner of Georgia Southern University and Stanley E. Fawcett of Brigham Young University asked more than 1,000 supply chain and logistics professionals and 175 college and university educators to rank the top 20 programs in North America.
Smeal finished number one in both the practitioner and academic rankings, drawn from 154 respondents.
Gene Tyworth, chair of Smeal's supply chain and information systems department, calls the ranking a "testimony to the talent of our research and teaching faculty and to our collegial work environment."
"This achievement is especially gratifying for our faculty and staff because it ratifies the 2002 decision to merge our business logistics program with our management science and information systems program," Tyworth says. "We created a unique new program that not only combines logistics, operations, and information systems, but respects interdisciplinary research methods."
Rutner and Fawcett announced their findings in an article entitled "The State of Supply Chain Education" in the September 2005 issue of Supply Chain Management Review. According to the article, Penn State was ranked number one by the academic respondents in a similar study published in 1995—"State of Logistics Education."
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.
