Gartner has once again released its rankings of the top US graduate and undergraduate supply chain programs, sure as always to cause some controversy and debate.
The former AMR Research started the ranking effort in 2009, a spinoff concept of course to its "top 25 supply chains lists" model that now has several such offshoots. Gartner later acquired AMR.
The first such list couldn't muster up 25 university respondents and rated only 19 graduate programs.
Later Gartner began rating undergraduate programs as well, and this year had 40 schools submit information on their undergraduate supply chain programs, and 35 for graduate programs, making a full "top 25" list possible.
Thirty-one programs were returning participants to the undergraduate process, while nine were newcomers, responding to the RFI for the first time. On the graduate side, 25 programs were returning, while 10 were newcomers.
Interestingl, the graduate side is a bit complicated, with many schools having more than one supply chain-related program. The 35 responding schools actually presented 73 distinct graduate supply chain programs: 31 M.B.A. programs, 18 M.S. programs and 24 Ph.D. programs.
Of course, how to rate and rank programs is not obvious, but Gartner does its best to quantify the process. For both undergraduate and graduate programs, the ranking uses a weighted average of 40% for "undergraduate industry value" (mentions as a top university program or recruiting spot based on a survey, the number of student internships achieved, and average starting salary of graduates); 20% on sheer program size (number of professors and students); and 40% for "program scope" (how many of 12 key knowledge areas according to a Gartner framework does the program include?).
On the graduate side, Penn State came out on top once again, as shown in the table below, with each school's 2011 ranking shown for comparison. If a school was not ranked in 2011, it may have been because they did not engage in the process that year.
Gartner Top 25 Supply Chain Graduate Programs 2014
University |
2014 |
2011 Rank |
Penn State |
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1 |
Michigan State |
2 |
3.5 |
Tennessee |
3 |
10 |
Michigan |
4 |
2 |
Georgia Tech |
5 |
9 |
Arizona State |
6 |
5 |
Ohio State |
7 |
8 |
Texas/Austin |
8 |
15 |
MIT |
9 |
14 |
University of Wisconsin/Madison |
9 |
10 |
Rutgers |
11 |
3.5 |
South Carolina |
12 |
18 |
Syracuse |
13 |
6 |
Brigham Young |
14 |
-- |
North Carolina State |
15 |
|
Texas/Dallas |
16 |
13 |
Northeastern |
17 |
-- |
Kansas |
17 |
24 |
Arkansas |
19 |
-- |
Indiana |
20 |
17 |
Maryland |
21 |
21 |
Marquette |
22 |
-- |
San Diego |
23 |
19 |
Howard |
24 |
-- |
Texas Christian |
24 |
-- |
Houston |
24 |
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North Texas |
24 |
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As can be seen, there was actually quite a bit of movement in the graduate list up and down for many schools. Falling out of the top 25 this year were Stanford, Florida, Oklahoma, and Auburn. Again, that could be the result of the ranking process or that the school did not participate in this year's survey.
We suspect that was the case with Stanford, for example, as it dropped out of the top 25 in both the graduate and undergraduate categories.
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