Progyan Basu Directory Page

Dr. Progyan Basu retired from the University of Maryland’s Robert H. Smith School of Business on July 1, 2025, after 35 years of teaching accounting at the undergraduate and graduate levels at four U.S. universities.

During his tenure at the Smith School (2007–2025), Basu taught financial accounting, managerial accounting and financial statement analysis in the undergraduate, MBA (Executive, Full-time, Part-time and Online), and MS programs. He also led accounting courses and seminars for professionals in the United States and abroad.

Basu was widely recognized for his teaching excellence. He received the Allen C. Krowe Teaching Excellence Award (2012), the CIBER Award for Teaching Innovation in Global Learning (2018), multiple Distinguished Teaching Awards (2015, 2016, 2017, 2019 and 2020), and Smith School of Business Faculty Honors (2024 and 2025).

At the University of Maryland level, Basu was selected as an Outstanding Faculty Mentor by the Philip Merrill Presidential Scholars Program (2013–14 and 2020–21). He also received a Teaching Innovation Grant (2020), served as a Teaching and Learning Transformation Center Elevate Fellow (2014–15), and was named a UMD Undergraduate Studies Faculty Fellow (2014–15). He was honored as a “Most Valuable Professor” on numerous occasions by student-athletes at Maryland.

Before joining Smith, Basu earned several teaching awards and recognitions at the Terry College of Business at the University of Georgia.

Basu also served in numerous administrative roles at Smith, including executive director of the Speaker Series, faculty champion for the Accounting Teaching Scholars Program, faculty director of the Part-time MBA program, and cohort director of the EMBA program. He contributed to key committees, including the Teaching Enhancement Committee, Clinical Faculty Appointment, Evaluation and Promotion (AEP) Committees, Undergraduate and MBA Oversight Committees, reaccreditation task force, Faculty Council and Merit Review Committee.

At the university level, Basu served as a faculty senator and was a member of the Senate Faculty Affairs Subcommittee, University Library Council, Senate Academic Procedures and Standards (APAS) Committee, and the Senate Committee on Committees.