The Princeton Review’s annual business school guidebook, The Best 290 Business Schools ranks Smeal No. 1 on its list of "Best Campus Facilities" and No. 8 on its "Best Professors" list.
Undergraduate program ranked No. 18 overall and 10th among public universities (U.S. News & World Report)
MBA program ranked No. 34 nationally and 17th among public universities (U.S. News & World Report)
Ranked No. 6 and No. 5 in supply chain management/logistics for MBAs and undergraduates, respectively (U.S. News & World Report)
Accounting, finance, management, marketing, and supply chain management majors all rank in the top 20 nationally (U.S. News & World Report)
Supply Chain Management Review (Sept. 2005) ranks the Smeal College of Business as having the top supply chain program in North America. The ranking is based on a survey of more than 1,000 supply chain and logistics professionals and 175 college and university educators. Smeal was tops in both the practitioner and academic rankings.
The Economist Intelligence Unit ranks Penn State Executive Programs, Smeal’s executive education arm, as the top provider in the world of customized executive education programs. The EIU report also recognized Penn State Executive Programs with an award of excellence and a fifth place ranking for its open-enrollment programs, making Smeal the only U.S. provider to be rated excellent in both categories.
The Smeal College's Farrell Center for Corporate Innovation and Entrepreneurship received the NASDAQ 2005 Center of Entrepreneurial Excellence award through a unanimous vote of peers. The award recognizes organizations that have made the greatest contributions to the advancement of entrepreneurship through academic and research excellence.
Top-tier ranking for graduate entrepreneurship (Entrepreneur magazine).
Hottest school for entrepreneurs ("America's Hottest Colleges" Kaplan/Newsweek).
One of the 10 largest undergraduate business programs in the nation (based on total students).
Smeal is one of only a handful of business schools with multimillion-dollar student-managed funds for investing in both public and private equities. The Nittany Lion fund is a $4.6 million stock portfolio made up entirely of investor dollars. The Garber Venture Capital Fund is a $5 million fund that MBA students invest in start-ups and early stage business ventures.
Ranked 16th overall and sixth among public universities for faculty research appearing in top academic journals (University of Texas at Dallas Top 100 Business School Research Rankings).
Smeal Chaired Professor of Management Donald C. Hambrick most-cited author in management discipline (OrgStudies database).
Real Estate faculty No. 2 in representation of editorial boards (Journal of Real Estate Practice and Education).
Faculty No. 3 for strategy research based on citation analysis (Business Research in Eight Disciplines).
More than 63,000 alumni worldwide with business graduates residing in more than 80 countries and employed at 90 of the Fortune 100 companies.
