For some time now, the analysts at Gartner have ranked the top university supply chain programs every two years.
The ranking is done for both undergraduate and graduate programs, with universities filling out an on-line survey that solicits information about each program. This year, 52 institutions in the US and Canada participated in the undergraduate survey and 47 participated in the graduate survey.
The criteria:
• Program scope
• Industry value
• Program size
Program scope is evaluated in terms of how well a program offers a diverse,
balanced curriculum with the reference point for that being what Gartner calls its Supply Chain Talent Attribute Model.
To evaluate industry value, Gartner looks at numbers for average starting salaries for program graduates plus the number of internships placed. They also surveyed supply chain professionals on which programs they believe were tops in the industry.
Added to those evaluations are scores for diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI), determined by looking at the gender and ethnicity breakouts of both the faculty and the student population of each program.
The third category for the rankings, program size, is straightforward, determined by the number of full- and part-time supply chain students as well as full-time faculty in each program.
In undergraduate, the University of Arkansas again topped the list, as seen in the table below:
Gartner's Top 25 Undergraduate Supply Chain Programs 2024
1 |
University of Arkansas |
2 |
University of Tennessee |
3 |
University of South Carolina |
4 |
University of North Texas |
5 |
Rutgers University |
6 |
University of Texas, Dallas |
7 |
Georgia Institute of Technology |
8 |
University of Houston |
9 |
University of Minnesota |
10 |
Marquette University |
11 |
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign |
12 |
Colorado State University |
13 |
Western Washington University |
14 |
University of Wisconsin, Madison |
15 |
Purdue University |
16 |
Arizona State University |
17 |
Georgia Southern University |
18 |
Howard University |
19 |
Indiana University |
20 |
Northeastern University |
21 |
Wayne State University |
22 |
Western Michigan University |
23 |
Miami University, Ohio |
24 |
Washington University, St. Louis |
25 |
Texas A&M University |
Source: Gartner (July 2024)
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As a note, three of the top 10 are located in Texas.
For the graduate program ranking, University of Tennessee repeated in the No. 1 position:
Gartner's Top 25 North American Graduate Supply Chain Programs 2024
1 |
University of Tennessee |
2 |
University of Arkansas |
3 |
Rutgers University |
4 |
University of Texas, Dallas |
5 |
University of South Carolina |
6 |
Georgia Institute of Technology |
7 |
Marquette University |
8 |
University of Minnesota |
9 |
University of Wisconsin, Madison |
10 |
Arizona State University |
11 |
University of Southern California |
12 |
Indiana University |
13 |
Washington University, St. Louis |
14 |
University of Houston |
15 |
North Carolina A&T State University |
16 |
Auburn University |
17 |
HEC Montréal/University of Montreal |
18 |
Texas Christian University |
19 |
Purdue University |
20 |
Wayne State University |
21 |
University of North Texas |
22 |
Syracuse University |
23 |
Northeastern University |
24 |
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign |
25 |
Boston University |
Some schools may choose not to participate. For example, MIT did not make the top 25 graduate program list this year or in 2022. Perhaps MIT chose not to enter the field in those years.
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