Fast Facts & Rankings

The Smith School has become one of the world's leading business schools in transforming its curriculum to reflect the needs of leadership for a global economy powered by technology and entrepreneurship. Smith students learn how to apply information technology to create innovation and drive business growth, while the school's world-renowned faculty create new management knowledge and identify leading business practices for today's networked world.

The Smith School’s strengths in both academics and research are reflected in its rankings and other accolades. The Financial Times ranks the school’s full-time MBA program #18 in the U.S. The school’s part-time MBA program is also ranked among the nation’s best and is annually rated #1 in the Washington, D.C. – Baltimore region by U.S. News & World Report.

Recent Rankings for the Robert H. Smith School of Business

Undergraduate Program

#20 Undergraduate Program
#7 – Management Information Systems
#9 – Supply Chain Management/Logistics
#10 – Management
#15– Entrepreneurship
#18 – Finance
#19 – Marketing
U.S.News & World Report, 2011 [ read more ]

#21 Business, U.S.
#7 Accounting Program, U.S.
Wall Street Journal, Recruiter Survey 2010 [ read more ]

Graduate Programs

#17 Executive MBA Program (World)
Businessweek, 2011 [ read more ]

#21, Top Business School for Executives and Entrepreneurs (U.S)
CEOWORLD Magazine, 2011 [ read more ]

#28 MBA Program, U.S.
#10 in Research, World
#11 Public Business School, U.S.
Financial Times, 2012

#23 EMBA Program, U.S.
#5 in Research, World
#1 Corporate Strategy (Latest Specialty Rankings, 2010)
#9 Entrepreneurship (Latest Specialty Rankings, 2010)
The Financial Times, 2011

#22 EMBA Program, World
#15 Management Skills Rank
#16 Alumni Rank
Wall Street Journal, 2010 [ read more ]

#17 Part-time MBA Program
#23 Executive MBA Program
#6 Information Systems
#14 Supply Chain/Logistics
#23 Productions/Operations
U.S.News & World Report, 2012

#30 Part-time MBA Program, U.S.
BusinessWeek, 2009 [ read more ]

Research

#10 in Research, World
Financial Times (MBA), 2012

#5 in Faculty Research, World
Financial Times (EMBA), 2011

#2 Intellectual Capital
 BusinessWeek (MBA), 2010

#7 in Research Productivity, World
UT Dallas Top 100 Business School Research Rankings, 2010 [ read more ]

Smith Stats (Approximate numbers)

  • 150 full-time and 50 part-time faculty members
  • 2,950 undergraduates majoring in business
  • 1,264 full-time, part-time and executive MBA students
  • 100 PhD students
  • 45,000 Smith School alumni worldwide

Fast Facts

  • G. “Anand” Anandalingam was named dean in 2008.
  • Every student admitted to the PhD program receives full financial support in the form of a graduate assistantship or fellowship.
  • Smith is the only school in the Baltimore-Washington, D.C., area with top-ranked undergraduate and graduate business programs.
  • The school was named the Robert H. Smith School of Business in 1998 in recognition of a $15 million endowment gift from Robert H. Smith ('50), co-chairman and co-chief executive officer of the Charles E. Smith Companies.
  • Van Munching Hall is the home of the Smith School of Business. A 103,300 square foot expansion project was completed in September 2002. A $20-million north wing expansion, adding 38,000 s.f. was finished in late 2007. A south wing expansion project is underway in 2011.
  • The Smith School has a bilingual Web site hosted in China.
The University of Maryland's Smith School of Business is accredited by AACSB International - The Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business, the premier accrediting agency for bachelor's, master's and doctoral degree programs in business administration and accounting. AACSB