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Students Place College’s Operations Management Curriculum in the Top 5

The ranking is part of Bloomberg Businessweek’s annual ranking of Best Undergraduate Business Programs by Specialty and was posted on the publications’ website on May 6, 2010.

Graduating seniors participating in the publication’s annual ranking of business schools had been asked to assign a letter grade – from A to F – for each of 12 specialty programs. Based on those grades, Bloomberg Businessweek calculated scores in 12 subject areas for each of the 139 schools that it ranked this year.

In addition to the fifth place ranking for operations management, the students’ feedback placed three other specialty areas in the top 50, with eight areas ranked in the top 101.

“I commend our faculty for their commitment to preparing our students for their future careers. It is especially gratifying that the students’ ranking of our supply chain curriculum, in particular, is in line with the national ranking of our supply chain faculty by practitioners and academics, as reported in the Supply Chain Management Review.”

A study of supply chain curricula reported in that publication placed the college’s curriculum 14th by academics and 20th by practitioners, with an overall ranking of 18th.

The College of Management had previously been ranked 83rd overall for 2010 by Bloomberg Businessweek. That ranking included feedback from students and recruiters, and other data about the program.

Following are the NC State specialty rankings in Bloomberg Businessweek.

  • Operations Management – 5
  • Calculus (taught by the College of Physical and Mathematical Sciences) – 21
  • Financial Management – 44
  • Accounting – 44
  • Strategy – 64
  • Business Law – 67
  • Marketing Management – 83
  • Macroeconomics – 85
  • Microeconomics – 89
  • Quantitative Methods – 92
  • Sustainability – 94
  • Ethics – 101

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