Smeal Included In Two Prominent Business-School Rankings
The Wall Street Journal and The Economist released separate rankings this week of the best business schools and both included Penn State's Smeal College of Business.
UNIVERSITY PARK, PA (September 23, 2005)—The Wall Street Journal and The Economist released separate rankings this week of the best business schools and both included Penn State's Smeal College of Business.
The Economist Intelligence Unit's rankings, published Friday in The Economist, ranked Smeal's full-time MBA program 48th internationally and 25th overall in the United States. Students and recent graduates completing the survey rated Smeal the ninth public program in the country and fifth among Big Ten public universities.
Corporate recruiters surveyed by The Wall Street Journal and Harris Interactive ranked Smeal among the top 47 regional business schools in the country. The results, published in the Journal on Sept. 21, rank Smeal 33rd on the regional list of MBA providers.
According to the Journal, the college ranks second among public schools in the east and 13th overall in the east. Recruiters rated Smeal 21st in the nation overall among public schools.
Smeal has been consistently included among the top business schools by The Economist and the Journal. In 2004, The Economist ranked Smeal as the 49th full-time MBA program in the world. The Journal last year ranked Smeal 26th in the regional rankings and ninth in the international rankings.
The Economist's rankings are drawn from Web-based questionnaires completed by 18,266 students and recent graduates, as well as information provided by the schools. Students rate their school according to its ability to further their career, provide professional development, increase their salary, and create networking opportunities.
The Journal's rankings are based on a survey of 3,267 corporate recruiters who rate selected schools from which they recruit. Of the 265 schools eligible, only 76 received the minimum 20 recruiter ratings required to be included in the rankings.
For more on the Smeal MBA, visit http://www.smeal.psu.edu/mba. The complete Wall Street Journal/Harris Interactive rankings are available online here: http://www.careerjournal.com/reports/bschool_index/.
