U.S. News Ranks Smeal Among Top Ten Public Business Programs
U.S. News Ranks Smeal Among Top Ten Public Business Programs
UNIVERSITY PARK, PA (August 18, 2006)—Penn State's Smeal College of Business is ranked 18th overall and 10th among public universities in this year's U.S. News & World Report rankings of undergraduate business programs, which was released today.
This is the second year in a row that the magazine's "America's Best Colleges" feature has ranked Smeal 18th overall. Last year, the college was ranked 11th among public universities.
Smeal is ranked sixth among Big Ten universities, according to the magazine, tying with Ohio State and Purdue.
U.S. News also ranked Smeal's Supply Chain Management degree program fifth in the nation. Other Smeal specialty areas ranked among the top 20 include:
- Finance: 20th
- Management: 12th
- Marketing: 19th
- Production/Operations Management: 17th
The magazine publishes "America's Best Colleges" annually. The rankings are based solely on a survey of deans and senior faculty members at business programs accredited by the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business.
For more information on the Smeal undergraduate program, visit www.smeal.psu.edu/uprog.
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.
