U.S. News & World Report Ranks
Undergraduate Program 20^th

U.S. News & World Report has just released their ranking for undergraduate programs, placing the Eli Broad College of Business at 20^th, compared to 21^st last year. For more information about this ranking, see U.S. News & World Report on-line, at http://www.usnews.com/usnews/edu/eduhome.htm (only limited information is available without charge).

Some of the programs were also individually ranked:

Supply Chain Management/Logistics	2
Production/Operations Management	9
Management	15
Accounting	17
Marketing	18
International Business	22

During the 2003-04 academic year:

• Nearly 34 percent of the 967 Broad undergraduates who received their degrees in May graduated with honors, finishing with an overall GPA of 3.5 or greater. During the 2003-04 academic year, 1,111 undergraduates received degrees. For the story on the May graduates, click here.
• Undergraduate athletes from the Broad School have earned top recognition for their achievements as scholars as well as sports competitors. During 2004, 44 Broad School students were named to the prestigious Big Ten Conference Academic All-Big Ten team. To be eligible for the Academic All-Big Ten team, athletes must be a letter-winner in at least their second academic year at their institution and carry a career grade-point average of 3.0 or better. For the most recent story, click here.
• Broad School undergraduates learn to lead in the global market before they graduate. An example of this is last year's Broad China Supply Chain Forum, which won one of this year's Lewis Quality Awards from the Broad School's Alumni Association Board of Directors. The Broad China Supply Chain Forum was an undergraduate project that brought 18 China experts together in panels and keynote presentations for a daylong conference on campus. A capacity crowd of nearly 400 persons attended representing 10 universities and 28 corporations. (For information on this year's forum, click here.)
• This year, Broad School undergraduates will have more opportunities to participate in hands-on learning in the newly expanded Financial Analysis Lab, as well as the Team Teaching Effectiveness Lab and the IBM On-Demand Supply Chain Lab.
• Michigan State University is recognized as one of the nation's top schools for Study Abroad Programs, and the Broad School has more students than any other college on this campus participating in Study Abroad Programs. Last year, 373 Broad School students (275 undergraduate and 98 graduate) participated in 23 business programs. These included semester programs in Thailand, Mexico, Finland, Ecuador, Hungary, England, China, Italy, France, Norway, Turkey, Australia, Germany and Austria. In addition to the above, the Broad School has summer programs in Norway, Europe, India, England and Mexico.

According to Robert B. Duncan, the Eli and Edythe L. Broad Dean, undergraduate education is a key mission of the Broad School. "Given our focus on leadership development, we believe we can have the most impact on helping prepare tomorrow's leaders with these outstanding programs," he said. "I think everyone in the Broad School community - students, faculty, staff and alumni - should be proud of what we have accomplished and of what we have the potential to do together."

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