The 19th installment of The UTD Top 100 Business School Research Rankings™ — released April 4 — reveals a significant increase in research productivity worldwide and in North America.
Compared to the 2017-2021 reporting period in the Worldwide rankings, the current 2018-2022 reporting period shows an increase of nearly 8% in research productivity by the Top 100 institutions. This five-year period, faculty researchers from Top 100 schools worldwide had a total score of 5947.73 compared to a score of 5520.91 in the 2017-2021 reporting period, an increase in score of 7.73%. The scores in the rankings account for the possibility of an article having multiple authors, perhaps from different universities (see the methodology section on the website’s home page).
The 2022 UTD Top 100 Business School Research Rankings™ tracks the number of articles published in 24 leading academic journals across a variety of business and management disciplines. The database contains school names, author names, article titles and keywords for each paper published since 1990.
“Papers published by business researchers increase our understanding of issues impacting businesses worldwide and directly contribute to the global economy by helping businesses to be more efficient and effective overall,” said Dr. Hasan Pirkul, Caruth Chair and dean of the Naveen Jindal School of Management, who along with Dr. Varghese Jacob, the Jindal School’s vice dean, created the ranking in 2005. “Each article published in one of the top journals that we track in our ranking has been thoroughly reviewed by peers who are experts in their fields. Hundreds, if not thousands, of hours have gone into rigorous data analysis to arrive at the conclusions posited in these papers.”
A comparison of the first edition of the UTD Top 100 Business School Research Rankings™ (published in 2005 and based on articles published during 2000-2004) to the current 2018-2022 period shows a dramatic narrowing of the productivity gap between universities in U.S. and Canada and the rest of the world. In the Worldwide Rankings, North American universities accounted for 91.96% of the Top 100 total score between 2000 and 2004. These days, the North American portion is down to 77.3%. That is an increase of nearly 17 percent in productivity from schools outside North America.
“This narrowing of scores in recent years indicates a much greater emphasis on research from universities outside of North America,” Pirkul said. “In the 18 years since we first published this ranking, business and management research are truly becoming worldwide phenomena. It reveals just how global the economy has become.”
The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania maintained its No. 1 position. There were some notable moves in the Top 10: UT Dallas moved up three positions from No. 5 to No. 2. Indiana University’s Kelley School of Business cracked the top 10, moving from No. 14 to No. 9.
Changes in the Top Ten
|
University |
2017-2021 Rank |
2018-2022 Rank |
Change |
|
University of Pennsylvania (The Wharton School) |
1 |
1 |
Same |
|
University of Texas at Dallas (Naveen Jindal School of Management) |
5 |
2 |
+3 |
|
Columbia University (Columbia Business School) |
3 |
3 |
Same |
|
Harvard University (Harvard Business School) |
4 |
4 |
Same |
|
University of Southern California (Marshall School of Business (incl. Leventhal)) |
6 |
5 |
+1 |
|
University of Chicago (Booth School of Business) |
7 |
6 |
+1 |
|
New York University (NYU) (Leonard N Stern School of Business) |
2 |
7 |
-5 |
|
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) (Sloan School of Management) |
9 |
8 |
+1 |
|
Indiana University at Bloomington (Kelley School of Business) |
14 |
9 |
+5 |
|
Stanford University (Graduate School of Business) |
8 |
10 |
-2 |
The top upward mover in this year’s worldwide ranking are the London School of Economics and Political Science, which moved from No. 85 to No. 70; University of Hong Kong (Faculty of Business and Economics / HKU Business School (incl. Polfulam)), which moved from No. 52 to No. 38; Bocconi University / Universita Bocconi (SDA School of Management (Inc. Finance, Marketing, Technology)), which moved from No. 67 to No. 53; Johns Hopkins University (Carey Business School), which moved from No. 73 to No. 61; and Hong Kong Polytechnic University (Faculty of Business (incl. Logistics and Maritime Studies)), which moved from No. 63 to No. 52.
Three universities entered the Top 100 in the worldwide rankings: City University of New York, Baruch College (Zicklin School of Business) at No. 95, University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) (School of Management) at No. 99, and University of Amsterdam (Amsterdam Business School) at No. 100.
In the North American rankings, two schools moved up 10 places in the rankings: Johns Hopkins University’s Carey Business School moved from No. 57 to No. 47; and Drexel University’s Bennett S. LeBow College of Business moved from No. 97 to No. 87.
Four universities entered the North American Rankings: Florida International University at No. 95, the University of California at Davis at No. 98; Florida State University at No. 99; and The University of Texas at San Antonio (Alvarez College of Business) at No. 100.
