Why Smith?

No business school combines core business fundamentals better than Smith. We teach the language of business, as well as a vocabulary for fluency in the digital economy. But why Smith?

Our Faculty
At the heart of any MBA program is its faculty. At Smith, you can learn from excellent teachers whose scholarship is helping to transform business practice in this 21st century. Smith has 130 full-time and 50 part-time faculty members.

  • Louiqa Raschid, professor of information systems, is part of a team of researchers awarded a $2-million grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) for data management research for the life sciences.
  • Roland T. Rust, David Bruce Smith Chair in Marketing, marketing department chair and director of the Center for Excellence in Service, was recently named editor of the prestigious Journal of Marketing.                                                                ►More

Our Students
Smith's nationally recognized undergraduate and MBA programs attract top candidates with impressive scholastic achievements, diverse backgrounds, proven leadership skills, and a commitment to excellence. 

        Smith is home to:

  • 2,800 undergraduate business majors
  • 1,320 MBA students
  • 170 Executive MBA students
  • 115 PhD students

Our Facilities
The home of the Robert H. Smith School of Business is Van Munching Hall, one of the most advanced facilities in the world for management education and research in the digital economy. In 2002, Smith opened a $38-million, 103,000-square-foot addition to the building. The new wing features next-generation technology infrastructure with 21 classrooms. meeting rooms equipped with advanced audio-visual and conferencing capabilities, building-wide wireless network coverage, four student computer labs and five netcentric teaching and research laboratories. A $20 expansion of Van Munching Hall started in August 2006 and will be completed in fall 2007.                                                                                                      ►More

Our Technology

  • Smith provided Nextel BlackBerry wireless handheld devices to all of its full-time MBA students at the start of the fall 2004 and 2005 semesters. The objective of the groundbreaking initiative is to encourage Smith School MBAs to explore the potential of “always on” technology and to teach them how to leverage such technology in the educational experience.
  • The Office of Information Technology has begun wiring campus dorms for wireless access, so students can be even more connected.

Our Area
At the University of Maryland, you'll be part of a large, diverse graduate student body. The Smith School is located at the south end of the 1,580-acre College Park campus, eight miles from Washington, DC and 35 miles from Baltimore, and an easy commute from Northern Virginia.

Our 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 the digital economy of the 21st century. Smith integrates the foundational business disciplines with cross-functional e-business concentrations including e-commerce, supply chain management, telecommunications, financial engineering, global business and entrepreneurship. Smith is the only school in the Baltimore-Washington, D.C., area with top-ranked undergraduate and graduate business programs.                                                                                                                       ► More

Apply to Smith today. Join the Leaders for the Digital Economy.