Kiplinger's Personal Finance Magazine

• The university is 18^th among the Top 100 in rankings of the best values in public education.
  • The university is 20^th for best value when rated on out-of-state tuition fees.

Wall Street Journal

The Journal ranks the Smith School of Business No. 15 among the world's "Regional" schools. ("Regional" is a category of schools that traditionally attract business recruiters from their own region or nation.)

U.S. News & World Report

• The university was 18th in the ranking of national public universities.
• With the release of the these rankings, Maryland had 79 programs overall in the magazine's Top 25 rankings (undergraduate and graduate), 32 programs in the top 10, 51 in the top 15, 67 in the top 20.

(Undergraduate)

• The Smith School of Business is ranked No. 22.
• Entrepreneurship No. 13
• Management Information Services No. 6
• General Management No. 9
• Supply Chain Mgt/Logistics No. 8
• Production/Operation Mgt. No. 16
• Finance No. 22
• Quantitative Analysis No. 13
• Marketing No. 18
• The Clark School of Engineering is ranked No. 22 in the nation (among schools whose highest degree is a doctorate).
• Aerospace engineering No. 10 (same as '05)
• Mechanical engineering No. 23 (same as '05)
• Electrical engineering No. 24 (not ranked in '05)
• Computer engineering No. 21 (not ranked in '05)

Black Issues in Higher Education
In the annual report on graduate programs, the university made the following rankings for 2005:

Doctorate Degrees

• African American degrees (traditonally white institutions), No. 13
• Total Minority degrees, No. 16
• Total Asian American degrees, No. 18
• Hispanic Doctorate, No. 64

• Total Minority Education, No. 12
• African American Education, No. 9

• Total Minority Psychology, No. 21
• African American Psychology, No. 18
• Asian American Psychology, No. 15

• Total Minority Social Sciences and History, No. 15
• African American Social Sciences and History, No. 4

Master's Degrees

• African American Master's(traditonally white institutions), No. 12
• African American Master's, No. 71
• Asian American Master's, No. 49

• Total Minority Agriculture and Related Sciences, No. 21

• Asian American Business, No. 34

• Asian American Education, No. 35

• Total Minority Engineering, No. 27
• African American Engineering, No. 7

• Total Minority Mathematics, No. 15
• African American Mathematics, No. 6

• African American Psychology, No. 49

• Total Minority Social Sciences & History, No. 20
• African American Social Sciences & History, No. 6

Black Issues in Higher Education
Undergraduate Programs

• Total Minority Degrees No. 22
• African American Degrees, traditionally white institutions) No. 4
• African American Degrees, No. 12
• Asian American Degrees, No. 19
• Hispanic Degrees, No. 68
• African American Agriculture, Agriculture Operations and Related Sciences, No. 18
• Asian American griculture, Agriculture Operations and Related Sciences, No. 10
• Hispanic griculture, Agriculture Operations and Related Sciences, No. 16
• Minority Area, Culture & Gender Studies, No. 26
• African American Area, Culture & Gender Studies, No. 7
• Asian AmericanArea, Culture & Gender Studies , No. 41
• Minority Biological and Biomedical Sciences, No. 13
• African American Biological and Biomedical Sciences, No. 6
• Asian American Biological and Biomedical Sciences, No. 14
• Hispanic Biological and Biomedical Sciences, No. 45
• Minority Business, Management, Marketing & Related Support Services, No. 43
• Asian American Business, Management, Marketing & Related Support Services, No. 21
• Minority Computer and Information Sciences and Support Service, No. 10
• African American Computer and Information Sciences and Support Service, No. 46
• Asian American Computer and Information Sciences and Support Service, No. 4
• Minority Education, No. 30
• African American Education, No. 31
• Asian American Education, No. 10
• Hispanic Education, No. 36
• Minority Engineering, No. 23
• African American Engineering, No. 11
• Asian American Engineering, No. 20
• Minority English Language, Literature/Letters, No. 33
• African American English Language, Literature/Letters, No. 18
• Asian American English Language, Literature/Letters, No. 23
• Minority Mathematics and Statistics, No. 32
• Asian American Mathematics and Statistics, No. 19
• Minority Psychology, No. 46
• Asian American Psychology, No. 24
• Minority Social Sciences, No. 7
• African American Social Sciences, No. 1
• American Indian Social Sciences, No. 44
• Asian American Social Sciences, No. 11
• Hispanic Social Sciences, No. 28

• The magazine, which details technological advances, applications and investment opportunities in micro and nanotechnology, ranks UM No. 1 in both nano research and nano education. Maryland was ranked No. 2 in micro research.

The Smith School of Business is ranked in the first tier of 13 schools in the magazine's ranking of the best 100 entrepreneurial programs, the highest overall ranking available.

• English ranked 33^rd
• the African American literature specialty ranked 9^th
• the American Literature (pre-1865) ranked 18^th
• History ranked 25th
• the Latin American specialty ranked 11^th
• the U.S. Colonial specialty ranked 17^th

• Criminology ranked 1^st
• Economics ranked 21^st
• the international economics speciality ranked 14^th
• Political Science ranked 29th
  
• Psychology ranked 55th
  
  • the industrial organization/psychology speciality ranked 9^th
• Sociology ranked 25^th
• the sex and gender specialty ranked 8^th
• the social psychology speciality ranked 16^th
• the sociology of population ranked 13^th

• Business ranked 27^th
• the entrepreneurship specialty ranked 18^th
• the information systems specialty ranked 5^th
• the part-time MBA ranked 10^th
• the supply chain/logistics speciality ranked 12^th

• Education ranked 22^nd
• The administration/supervision specialty ranked 14^th
• The counseling and personnel services specialty ranked 1^st
• The education policy specialty ranked 9^th
• The curriculum and instruction specialty ranked 14^th
• The education psychology specialty ranked 9^th
• The elementary education specialty ranked 10^th
• The higher education administration specialty ranked 9^th
• The secondary education specialty ranked 12^th
• The special education specialty ranked 8^th

• Engineering ranked 17^th in the nation
• The aerospace engineering specialty ranked 9^th
• The computer engineering specialty ranked 17^th
• The chemical engineering specialty ranked 35^th
• The electrical engineering specialty ranked 16^th
• The civil engineering specialty ranked 26^th
  
• The materials engineering specialty ranked 30^th
• The mechanical engineering specialty ranked 20^th

• The economics-public finance specialty ranked 10^th

The U.K.'s Financial Times ranked the Smith School of Business No. 20 in North America and No. 30 worldwide. Smith also ranked No. 6 overall among U.S. Public Business Schools

In rankings among the U.S.'s Top 25 business schools, Smith was also:

• No. 3 in "Value for the Money"
• No. 12 in "Placement Rate"
• No. 12 in "Aims Achieved"
• No. 13 in "Salary Increase"


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