2023 2024 Student Forum - Smith School of Business Ranking

The Robert H. Smith School of Business is a school of business management within the University of Maryland, College Park. It offers programs at both the graduate and undergraduate levels, including bachelor's degrees, full-time and part-time Master of Business Administration (MBA), online MBA, MS, MFin, Executive MBA, Ph.D.s, and executive education outreach programs to the corporate community.

The School is accredited by AACSB International - The Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business, the premier accrediting agency for bachelors, masters and doctoral degree programs in business administration and accounting.

Smith School of Business Ranking

The BusinessWeek ranks the Robert H. Smith School of Business’ full-time MBA program as "Top 30 Programs" in the U.S.

The Financial Times also ranks the school’s full-time MBA program #18 in the U.S. (2011).

For part-time MBA program, it is ranked among the nation’s best and is annually rated the best in the Washington, D.C.–Baltimore region by U.S. News & World Report

Class Profile

Smith's 2014 Part-Time MBA cohort consists of 45% women.

General Class Profile
• Female: 29%
• International: 35%
• Married: N/A

Ethnicity/US Students in Program:
• African American: 7%
• Asian American: 18%
• Hispanic or Latino American: 4%
• Multiethnic/Multiracial : 0%
• Native American: 0%
• White (Non-Hispanic): 71%
• Chose not to report: 0%

Students from following regions:
• Africa: 2%
• Asia: 22%
• Eastern Europe and Central Asia: 9%
• Latin America and the Caribbean: 3%
• Middle East: 2%
• North America: 60%
• Oceania: 0%
• Western Europe: 2%
• Percentage of students with dual citizenship: N/A

Entering North American citizens by region:
• Northeast: 9%
• Mid-Atlantic: 81%
• South: 1%
• Southwest: 0%
• Midwest: 3%
• West: 6%

Mean months of work experience of newest entering class: 56

Median months of work experience of newest entering class: 48