It’s a busy start to the fall semester here at the University of Maryland, as we celebrate the 25th anniversary of becoming the Robert H. Smith School of Business. A record number of graduate students started at Smith this fall, and in all programs, our students are incredibly impressive. Our faculty are also quite impressive. Finance professor Pete Kyle just won the prestigious Wharton-Jacobs Levy Prize for Quantitative Financial Innovation from the Wharton School. Anil K.

It has been a productive year rolling out innovative programs around our new strategic plan. We’re reimagining learning with the launch of new programs in computational finance and sports management, an online business minor, and a second cohort of our blockchain accelerator for outside companies. There are more initiatives to come! Meanwhile, we’re celebrating our Silver Jubilee year – 25 years since the transformational naming gift from our benefactor Robert H. Smith ’50 – with a series of events, including the launch of our Hall of Fame with 19 inductees.

We’re in the midst of a busy spring semester here at the Robert H. Smith School of Business. We are celebrating outstanding rankings for our online programs. We set new records for the number of master’s students who landed jobs last year and our Office of Career Services is working to help students do the same this year. We are also celebrating our excellent faculty, with 24 recently recognized among the top 2% most productive in the world. We’ve already hired four new professors to join us later this year, and we’re still recruiting others.

We’re in the midst of a busy spring semester here at the Robert H. Smith School of Business. We are celebrating outstanding rankings for our online programs. We set new records for the number of master’s students who landed jobs last year and our Office of Career Services is working to help students do the same this year. We are also celebrating our excellent faculty, with 24 recently recognized among the top 2% most productive in the world. We’ve already hired four new professors to join us later this year, and we’re still recruiting others.

We’re finishing out 2022 strong here at the Robert H. Smith School of Business. Management professor Evan Starr’s research is having a big impact as the basis of a recently signed congressional bill to curb sexual harassment and limit nondisclosure agreements. Deloitte is partnering with us to offer scholarships to our brightest diverse accounting students. Our extraordinary research scholars have won prestigious honors at INFORMS and been awarded NSF grants. And we're celebrating that the University of Maryland is ranked No. 1 in the Mid-Atlantic region in the latest entrepreneurship education rankings from The Princeton Review and Entrepreneur magazine.