Fast Facts & Rankings

The Smith School has become one of the world’s leading business schools in transforming its curriculum to reflect the needs of leadership for a global economy powered by technology and entrepreneurship. Smith students learn how to apply information technology to create innovation and drive business growth, while the school’s world-renowned faculty create new management knowledge and identify leading business practices for today’s networked world.

The Smith School’s strengths in both academics and research are reflected in its rankings and other accolades. The Financial Times ranks the school’s full-time MBA program #18 in the U.S. and the PhD program #6. The school’s part-time MBA program is also ranked among the nation’s best and is annually rated #1 in the Washington, D.C. – Baltimore region by U.S. News & World Report.

 

Recent Rankings for the Robert H. Smith School of Business:

#18 MBA Program, U.S.
#6 PhD Program, U.S.
#11 in Research, World
#6 Best in IT, World (alumni recommendations)
#7 Best in eBusiness, World (alumni recommendations)
#5 Public Business School, U.S.
#2 Value for the Money category (among top-20 US schools)
Financial Times, 2008 ►

#16 Part-time MBA Program
#6 Information Systems
#12 Supply Chain/Logistics
#13 Entrepreneurship
#20 Management
#23 Production/Operations
U.S.News & World Report, 2008 ►

#9 Offering Greatest Opportunity for Minority Students
 Princeton Review, "Best 282 Business Schools" 2007 ►

#22 Custom Executive Education, U.S.
Financial Times, 2008 ►

#7 The UTD Top 100 Business School Research Rankings™
Based on Research Contribution 2002-2006 (All Journals)
The School of Management, University of Texas at Dallas, 2007 ►

#21 Undergraduate Program
#7 Management Information Systems
#7 Supply Chain Management/Logistics
#11 Entrepreneurship
#12 Quantitative Analysis
#16 Management
#16 Production/Operations Management
#18 Finance
#18 Marketing
U.S.News & World Report, 2007

#10 MBA Program (among all U.S. regional schools)
#8 Academic Excellence in Information Technology (World)
 Wall Street Journal, 2007

Top 25 in Entrepreneurship, U.S.
Fortune Small Business Magazine, 2007 ►

#25 MBA Program, U.S.
#12 Intellectual Capital
Business Week, 2006 ►

 

Smith Stats:

  • 125 full-time and 50 part-time faculty members
  •  2,950 undergraduates majoring in business
  • 236 full-time and 964 part-time MBA students
  • 100 Ph.D. students
  • 180 Executive and EMBA students worldwide
  • 45,000 Smith School alumni worldwide.

Approximate numbers, Fall 2007

 

Fast Facts:

  • Every student admitted to the PhD program receives full financial support in the form of a graduate assistantship or fellowship. In  2008, the Smith School announced a $12 million PhD program initiative, making PhD student stipends one of the highest in the nation.
  • Smith is the only school in the Baltimore-Washington, D.C., area with top-ranked undergraduate and graduate business programs.
  • Smith has a biweekly segment on Maryland Public Television's Your Money and Business program called “Smith Business Close-Up” and clips are available online.
  • The school was named the Robert H. Smith School of Business in 1998 in recognition of a $15 million endowment gift from Robert H. Smith ('50), co-chairman and co-chief executive officer of the Charles E. Smith Companies.
  • Before joining the Smith School in 1997, Dean Howard Frank directed the Information Technology Office of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA).
  • Van Munching Hall is the home of the Smith School of Business. A 103,300 s.f. expansion project was completed in September 2002. A $21-million North Wing expansion opened in 2007, adding 38,000 s.f.
  • The Smith School has a bilingual Web site hosted in China: http://www.rhsmith-umd.cn
  • Smith RSS feeds are the easiest way to keep up to date with Smith news and video/audio podcasts.

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The University of Maryland's Smith School of Business is accredited by AACSB International - The Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business, the premier accrediting agency for bachelor's, master's and doctoral degree programs in business administration and accounting.