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Financial Times Ranks Smith
School Among World’s Top Business
Schools
Smith Ranked No. 6 for IT and No. 7
for eBusiness
College Park, Md. – January 28, 2008 –
The MBA program at the University of
Maryland’s Robert H. Smith School of
Business is ranked No. 18 in the United
States in the Financial Times MBA
2008 rankings, published today. The
school ranked No. 6 among business
schools globally in the “Best in IT”
category and No. 7 in the “Best in
eBusiness” category, both of which are
based upon alumni recommendations.
The influential rankings place
Smith’s MBA program No. 2 among the top
20 U.S. schools in the “value for money”
category. This is the seventh
consecutive year the Smith School has
placed in the top tier. The school’s MBA
program comes in at No. 5 program among
public business schools in the United
States. Smith’s PhD program is ranked
No. 6 in the U.S. and No. 13 in the
world and the school is No. 11 in the
world for research.
“The Smith School holds steady its
place among a handful of schools
worldwide that are truly leading
management education, practice and
research,” said Howard Frank, dean of
the Robert H. Smith School of Business.
“We’ve earned our place among the truly
innovative top tier of research
institutions worldwide while maintaining
the ability to give our students some of
the best possible returns for their
educational investment. This is a
remarkable achievement.”
The Financial Times rankings
are compiled from two questionnaires –
one for the business schools and the
other for the MBA class of 2005. The
value for the money criterion is
calculated using the salary earned by
alumni three years after graduation and
course costs. The research rating is
calculated by number of faculty
publications in 40 international
academic and practitioner journals.
Points are accrued by the business
school at which the author is presently
employed and adjustment is made for
faculty size.
About the University of Maryland’s
Robert
H. Smith School of Business
The Robert H. Smith School of
Business is an internationally
recognized leader in management
education and research. One of 14
colleges and schools at the University
of Maryland, College Park, the Smith
School offers undergraduate, full-time
and part-time MBA, executive MBA,
executive MS, PhD and executive
education programs, as well as outreach
services to the corporate community. The
school offers its degree, custom and
certification programs in learning
locations on three continents — North
America, Europe and Asia.
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