Robert H. Smith School of Business Revenue and Competitors

The Robert H. Smith School of Business is an internationally recognized leader in management education and research. One of 12 colleges and schools at the University of Maryland, College Park, the Smith School offers undergraduate, full-time and part-time MBA, executive MBA, executive MS, PhD and executive education programs, as well as outreach services to the corporate community. At the Smith School of Business, we set out to provide the knowledge and thought leadership that transform students into agents of both economic prosperity and transformative social change. Here's how we're realizing that vision. From Humble Beginnings ... 1921 to 1960 The business school's mission statement, published in the 1924-25 course catalog, reveals its lofty ambitions: "The chief aim...is to produce thinkers rather than routine workers, executives rather than subordinates." Working toward that goal, the college will evolve its curriculum, more than quadruple in size, and change its name twice in ten years. 1921 The University of Maryland's Department of Economics/Business Administration offers its first formal business curriculum. In its first year, 394 students enroll and take required courses such as diplomacy, constitutional law, public speaking and ROTC. By 1925 there are 46 faculty members. Getting Down to Business ... 1961 to 1972 This era of relative stability sees little change in the school's organizational structure - or its name. But seeds for the future are being laid, as the school receives its first major research grant, inaugurates its doctoral program and starts taking advantage of new technology. Increasing Accomplishments ... 1973 to 1991 The school undergoes another name change and Dean Rudy Lamone, with a knack for raising money from his little red card box of alumni names, embarks on an ambitious program to bring the school into the intellectual mainstream. The World at our Fingertips ... 1991 to 1996 With a solid academic reputation, a new home - Van Munching Hall - and increasing respect from the business community, the College of Business Management is poised to take its place on the international stage as a leader in research and a producer of quality graduates. And the name changes. Again. Ascent to the Top - The Move to Excellence ... 1997... The b-school becomes the Robert H. Smith School of Business and a remarkable transformation is underway. The Smith School is educating men and women to become agents of positive change in the world... to broaden their horizons, exposing them to new business practices, different cultures and new ways of thinking.