U.S. News Ranks Smith
School’s Undergraduate Program Among Nation’s Best
College Park, Md. – September 13, 2011 – The undergraduate business program at
the University of Maryland’s Robert H. Smith School of Business is ranked No. 20
in the nation in the latest edition of U.S. News & World Report’s
“America’s Best Colleges,” published today. The Smith School placed 9th among
public universities and also ranked highly in a number of business specialty
categories. Smith’s Management Information Systems, and Supply Chain
Management/Logistics, and Management programs are listed among the nation’s top
10 and a total of six areas listed among the nation’s top 20.
Smith School Alumnus Earns Top 10 Score in U.S. on CPA Exam
You don't need an official proclamation to know that Maryland is a hotbed of
accounting excellence, but we've got one anyway. It comes courtesy of Mike
Berryman. The 23-year-old CPA in Ernst & Young's Baltimore office is a winner of
one of the AICPA's 2010 Elijah Watt Sells awards. The prestigious honor is given
annually to the candidates with the 10 highest cumulative CPA exam scores in the
nation.
How I Got Here:
Tyrone Brooks ’96
Want to break into the baseball industry? Find an internship, work really hard
and then network, network, network. That was the advice given to Smith students
at the Baseball Industry Network networking night on April 25, hosted by Tyrone
Brooks ’96, director of baseball operations for the Pittsburgh Pirates.
