Top News / January 31, 2011

Financial Times Ranks UMD Smith School No. 18 Among U.S. Business Schools

College Park, Md. – January 31, 2011 – 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 2011 rankings, published today. The influential rankings place Smith No. 10 in the world for research, the fifth consecutive year in the top 15. The Smith School’s MBA program also comes in as the No. 4 program among public business schools in the United States in the Financial Times ranking. The program ranked No. 40 globally.

“The Smith School’s success in this ranking acknowledges the strengths of our full-time MBA program and the excellence of our faculty and staff,” said G. “Anand” Anandalingam, dean of the Robert H. Smith School of Business. “Our faculty are translating their top research to students in the classroom, giving our MBAs relevant thought leadership lessons that they’ll take as they move into leadership positions in all industries and sectors around the world.”

The Smith School has consistently been recognized for the strength of its faculty research, coming in at No. 2 in the United States in BusinessWeek’s most recent ranking on a measure of “intellectual capital” for the number of faculty articles published in top academic journals.

The Financial Times rankings are compiled from two surveys – one for the business schools and the other for the MBA class of 2007. The surveys take into account information including salaries earned by alumni and percentage increase after earning the MBA, career progress, and a program’s student body and faculty demographics. The research rating is calculated by number of faculty publications in 45 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.

The complete rankings can be found at: www.ft.com/businesseducation/mba2011.

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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 12 colleges and schools at the University of Maryland, College Park, the Smith School offers undergraduate, full-time and flex MBA, executive MBA, online MBA, business master’s, 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 in North America and Asia.

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