Smeal MBA Jumps In Wall Street Journal Rankings
The MBA Program at Penn State's Smeal College of Business is ranked 23rd according to the Wall Street Journal's annual list of the top regional MBA providers, which was published today. The college is up 10 spots from its ranking of 33 last year.
Smeal MBA Jumps In Wall Street Journal Rankings
UNIVERSITY PARK, PA (September 20, 2006) – The MBA Program at Penn
State's Smeal College of Business is ranked 23rd according to the Wall Street Journal's annual list of the top regional MBA providers, which was published today.
The college is up 10 spots from its ranking of 33 last year.
The rankings are based on interviews with 4,125 MBA recruiters. Each
recruiter was asked to judge up to three recently visited schools and
their students on 21 attributes. The rankings also take into account
whether the recruiter plans to hire MBAs from the school in the future
and the number of recruiters who indicate that they recruit from the
school. The respondents were interviewed between December 2005 and
March 2006.
The schools are divided into three separate rankings—national,
regional, and international—based on the recruiters they share and
where survey respondents tended to recruit.
Among public programs, Smeal is ranked 13th on the regional list. The college is ranked sixth regionally in the Big Ten.
Smeal ranked eighth overall in the discipline-specific category of operations management.
Additionally, the Journal's list of the top 20 companies
doing the most recruiting at ranked schools included three companies
who hired multiple Smeal MBAs in the past two years—Citigroup, Intel,
and PricewaterhouseCoopers.
For more on the Smeal MBA, visit http://www.smeal.psu.edu/mba. The complete Wall Street Journal rankings are available online at www.careerjournal.com/reports/bschool06.
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.
