Smith Holds Strong in 2027 U.S. News Rankings, With Significant Finance and Specialty Gains

Maryland’s Smith School of Business ranks No. 24 nationally and No. 13 among public universities in U.S. News & World Report’s 2027 undergraduate business rankings. Finance climbs 15 spots while management information systems ranks ninth nationally and seventh among publics.

Data and methods for identifying artificial intelligence-related patents

This paper evaluates existing approaches to identifying artificial intelligence (AI)-related patents and introduces a novel, scalable framework to improve classification performance. Motivated by the growing reliance on patent data in innovation research, we assess widely used methods and document their substantial performance limitations. To address these challenges, we develop a CPC-informed label-refinement framework inspired by positive-unlabeled (PU) learning to construct high-quality training data.

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