UT-Dallas School of
Management receives high ranking
The University of Texas at Dallas'
School of Management ranked sixth worldwide in research productivity
in certain critical areas over the last six years in a study published
in the most recent issue of OR/MS Today, a publication of the
Institute for Operations Research and Management Sciences.
The study compares the amount of
research published in quantitative and technical fields, such as
operations management and management information systems, in schools
of business during two six-year periods, 1990 to 1996 and 1997 to the
present.
The study's authors, James Marsden and
Ravi Bapna, both faculty members at the University of Connecticut,
said that they wanted to measure the performance of business schools
that have organized departments to address management issues created
by the information technology revolution.
The researchers drew their conclusions
by tallying the amount of academic research published in the last 12
years in four top journals that frequently publish research on
operations management and management information systems: Management
Science, Information Systems Research, Operations Research and INFORMS
Journal on Computing. All four are published by the 12,000-member
INFORMS, an organization that represents professionals and
academicians in the operations management, management sciences, and
management information systems fields.
"This is the first time in our
history that someone has looked at what we've done and placed us
alongside the best in the nation and world," said UTD School of
Management Dean Dr. Hasan Pirkul.
Pirkul noted that the UTD School of
Management placed 43rd in the study's first six-year-period.
"The leap we made ¡X from 43rd to
sixth ¡X is a real measure of the progress we've made as we've grown
over the last six years. It's particularly gratifying because it
indicates that we're making significant progress toward our goal of
creating a nationally recognized, top-quality management school here
at UTD," he said.
Enrollment in the UTD School of
Management has increased 80 percent over the last six years. For the
current academic year, the school's enrollment totals 4,373. UTD's
total enrollment is more than 13,000 students.
The McCombs School of Business at The
University of Texas at Austin placed fifth, and the Cox School of
Business at Southern Methodist University placed 35th. The top-ranked
school in the same period was The Wharton School at The University of
Pennsylvania.
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