The Financial Times released its 2016 rankings of the best full-time program available to prospective MBAs. The annual list looks at a school on a national level, as well as an international level. According to a press release, the University of Maryland’s Robert H. Smith School of Business ranked as No. 22 in the nation and No. 51 in the world in 2016.
The Financial Times looked at 157 accredited MBA programs around the world. Information collected from the schools and from 9,800 alumni are ranked, based on the following metrics:
- alumni salaries three years after graduation;
- increase in income for alumni career success for alumni
- alumni recommendations
- value for money
- diversity of staff, students and board members
- the MBA’s international reach
- number of faculty doctorates
- number of PhD graduates in the past three years
- faculty research and publications.
Smith came in at No. 13 for placement success (a ranking of the effectiveness of the school’s career services in supporting student recruitment, as rated by alumni) and No. 23 for research (calculated from the number of articles published by current full-time faculty members in 45 selected academic and practitioner journals between January 2013 and October 2015) — up from No. 26 in last year’s ranking.
The Financial Times is a leader in business journalism. The publication has an average daily readership of 2.2 million people worldwide and it’s website, FT.com, has 4.5 million registered users and over 285,000 digital subscribers, as well as 600,000 paying users.
In October 2015, The Economist ranked the Smith’s full-time MBA No. 28 in the United States and No. 42 in the world. For a complete list of the Smith School’s rankings click here.