Smith School Holds Annual Diversity Event
The annual “Diversity at Smith” event was held at University of Maryland's Robert H. Smith School of Business on November 7, 2009. The main aim of the event was to provide prospective MBA candidates the opportunity to experience the Smith MBA. 

BusinessWeek Ranks Smith Among Top MBA Programs in the Nation
The MBA program at the Smith School emerges as the best in the Washington, D.C.-Baltimore region and an impressive No. 3 in the U.S. for research in BusinessWeek’s 2008 survey of “The Best B-schools.”

Smith School Launches Center for Social Value Creation
The Robert H. Smith School of Business launched the Center for Social Value Creation this fall with an event in Washington, D.C., where more than 250 business leaders, nonprofit executives, policy makers and academics gathered for a one-day forum about creating, leading and sustaining organizations for social impact.

Smith MBAs Make a Global Impact with Internships
“My project required me to look for atypical solutions outside of the traditional finance sphere. I ended up using quite a bit of theory imparted from the operational finance class, which ended up playing an integral role in my solution. In addition, I think that my earlier participation in social venture consulting and case competitions really afforded practical and applicable project management and strategic frameworks," said Lauren DeStefano who completed her summer internship at Intel Corporation. 

MBA Leads to Higher Salaries for IT Professionals
An IT professional with an MBA degree earns 46 percent more than a counterpart with only a bachelors degree and 37 percent more than one with any other masters degree, according to the study, published in a recent Management Science journal.