Undergraduate Program Advances In U.S. News Ranking
Undergraduate Program Advances In U.S. News Ranking
UNIVERSITY PARK, PA (August 22, 2005)—Penn State's Smeal College of Business ranks 18th overall and 11th among public business schools in the 2006 edition of U.S. News & World Report's "Best Undergraduate Business Programs" feature, part of the magazine's annual survey of America's best colleges and universities.
Smeal, which also ranked 4th in the nation in the specialty category of Supply Chain Management and Logistics, improved upon its 20th overall and 12th public ranking in last year's U.S. News report. The report is based on surveys of business school deans and senior faculty who are asked to rate the quality of programs with which they are familiar.
Smeal specialty areas ranked among the top 20 in the nation include:
Finance: 14th
Management: 9th
Management Information Systems: 20th
Marketing: 16th
Production / Operations Management: 12th
Real Estate: 12th
Supply Chain Management / Logistics: 4th
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.
