University of Maryland’s Robert H. Smith School of Business Ranks Among Nation’s Best

College Park, Md. – September 13, 2012 – The undergraduate business program at the University of Maryland’s Robert H. Smith School of Business ranks No. 21 in the nation in the latest edition of U.S. News & World Report’s “America’s Best Colleges,” published yesterday. The Smith School placed 11th among public universities and again ranked highly in a number of business specialty categories. Smith’s Management Information Systems and Supply Chain Management/Logistics programs are listed among the nation’s top 10 and a total of eight areas listed among the nation’s top 25.

The Smith School’s specialty rankings are:

• No. 6 – Management Information Systems
• No. 8 – Supply Chain Management/Logistics
• No. 11 – Quantitative Analysis
• No. 12 – Entrepreneurship
• No. 13 – Management
• No. 15 – Marketing
• No. 17 – Finance
• No. 25 – International Business

The U.S. News & World Report rankings are based solely on a spring 2012 survey of deans and senior faculty at all undergraduate business programs accredited by the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business. Participants were asked to rate the quality of programs with which they are familiar and 40 percent of those surveyed responded. As part of the survey, deans and faculty were asked to nominate the 10 best programs in a number of specialty areas, from which the specialty rankings are derived.